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 a collection of some mental models that I find most useful in my thinking. Each model comes an immersive visualization that help internalize the concepts. I'll be adding more over time...
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Complex Systems
Butterfly Effect
Complex Systems
Small changes in initial conditions can lead to vastly different outcomes in complex systems.
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Complex Systems
Complex patterns that emerge from nonlinear dynamic systems, revealing order within chaos.
Explore →Feedback Loop
Complex Systems
A mechanism where outputs are routed back as inputs, creating self-reinforcing or self-regulating system behavior.
Emergence
Complex Systems
The phenomenon where complex patterns and behaviors arise from simple rules and interactions at lower levels.
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Convexity
Mathematics
A property of functions with increasing returns, where small inputs can yield disproportionately large outputs.
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Mathematics
A statistical measure expressing the extent to which variables change together, without implying causation.
Power Law
Mathematics
A mathematical relationship where one quantity varies as a power of another, creating extreme inequality in distributions.
Philosophy of Science
Causality
Philosophy of Science
The relationship between causes and effects, forming the basis for prediction, explanation, and intervention in systems.
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Uncertainty Principle
Physics
The fundamental limit to the precision with which complementary variables can be measured simultaneously.
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Physics
The threshold at which a system undergoes rapid, self-sustaining transformation after accumulating sufficient resources or momentum.
Entropy
Physics
A measure of disorder, uncertainty, or randomness in a system, which naturally increases over time.
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