Mental Models

Mental models are frameworks or worldviews that help us understand and navigate reality. They're the lenses through which we see the world, shaping our thoughts, decisions, and actions.

Below is my collection of mental models that I find most useful in my thinking. Explore each model through immersive visualizations that help internalize their concepts.

Showing 7 models

Mathematics

Butterfly Effect

Mathematics

Small changes in initial conditions can lead to vastly different outcomes in complex systems.

Explore →

Strange Attractors

Mathematics

Complex patterns that emerge from nonlinear dynamic systems, showing order within chaos.

Explore →

Convexity

Mathematics

A property of functions with monotonically non-decreasing derivatives.

Physics

Uncertainty Principle

Physics

The fundamental limit to the precision with which complementary variables can be known simultaneously.

Explore →

Critical Mass

Physics

The threshold at which a system undergoes sudden, dramatic change after accumulating sufficient resources or momentum.

Psychology

Confirmation Bias

Psychology

The tendency to search for and favor information that confirms our existing beliefs.

Explore →

Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

Psychology

Beliefs that become self-fulfilling due to their influence on behavior and expectations.

Explore →