Posting in ~humanities as the article is a very general laundry list of mental models drawn from a variety of disciplines - mathematics, engineering, business, military, etc. [It's light on models...
Posting in ~humanities as the article is a very general laundry list of mental models drawn from a variety of disciplines - mathematics, engineering, business, military, etc. [It's light on models from "softer" disciplines other than business, like sociology, but the list is already long.]
Some of the items are sketchily or inaccurately described, e.g. the "spring-loaded system".
I can think of a couple of important missing models:
the bounded or limited system, where, for whatever reason, you won't see results outside of a practical limit, e.g. negative deaths in a mortality report. This is also subject to invalid assumptions of a boundary, like the zero lower bound of interest rates in monetary policy - it is possible to have a negative interest rate.
risk theory - unlike the common perception that risk means the likelihood of an undesirable outcome, risk is that likelihood multiplied by the magnitude of the potential damage. A nuclear reactor accident might be vanishingly improbable, but is nevertheless a high risk because the potential damage is so great.
Overall, though, it's a good grab-bag of tools that may give you additional useful ways of thinking about the world, regardless of your discipline.
But it's not about one of the humanities: history, linguistics, theology, arts, or even philosophy. It's about how people think, or psychology, which is why I've moved this to ~science.social.
Posting in ~humanities as the article is a very general laundry list of mental models drawn from a variety of disciplines
But it's not about one of the humanities: history, linguistics, theology, arts, or even philosophy. It's about how people think, or psychology, which is why I've moved this to ~science.social.
I'm wondering what mental models apply in music performance? Here's one:
I'm wondering what mental models apply in music performance? Here's one:
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. The idea that consistency and accuracy in physical motion comes from practicing things slowly and carefully, then gradually speeding up. (Has wide applications in sports, military exercises, etc.)
I think of "slow is smooth, smooth is fast" as an example of a heuristic method - a solution from a problem solving technique that implicitly or explicitly draws on many mental models and...
I think of "slow is smooth, smooth is fast" as an example of a heuristic method - a solution from a problem solving technique that implicitly or explicitly draws on many mental models and empirical testing to arrive at a satisfactory rule-of-thumb solution. I guess you could say that heuristic problem solving is another useful mental model?
I think there may be an implicit model of how "muscle memory" works in humans. This doesn't seem all that distinct from cognitive biases, which are also about what empirically happens in our brains.
I think there may be an implicit model of how "muscle memory" works in humans. This doesn't seem all that distinct from cognitive biases, which are also about what empirically happens in our brains.
Posting in ~humanities as the article is a very general laundry list of mental models drawn from a variety of disciplines - mathematics, engineering, business, military, etc. [It's light on models from "softer" disciplines other than business, like sociology, but the list is already long.]
Some of the items are sketchily or inaccurately described, e.g. the "spring-loaded system".
I can think of a couple of important missing models:
Overall, though, it's a good grab-bag of tools that may give you additional useful ways of thinking about the world, regardless of your discipline.
In the same vein, see the Cognitive Bias Cheatsheet.
But it's not about one of the humanities: history, linguistics, theology, arts, or even philosophy. It's about how people think, or psychology, which is why I've moved this to ~science.social.
Fair enough, thank you, though interdisciplinary analysis tends to fall under education.
I'm wondering what mental models apply in music performance? Here's one:
I think of "slow is smooth, smooth is fast" as an example of a heuristic method - a solution from a problem solving technique that implicitly or explicitly draws on many mental models and empirical testing to arrive at a satisfactory rule-of-thumb solution. I guess you could say that heuristic problem solving is another useful mental model?
I think there may be an implicit model of how "muscle memory" works in humans. This doesn't seem all that distinct from cognitive biases, which are also about what empirically happens in our brains.