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...ironment might become "old money". If something new comes along that breaks the mental models, it simply won't fit! The Silicon Valley tech scene is heavily optimized for this late stage vertical Saas world.
...ate the nuance. Weird things will happen that you cannot fit into your existing mental models in any way. It's like living in flatland and seeing a sphere: "Wait, how is that circle getting smaller and then bigger? What the heck?
... models. What's the last time you thought about the same-origin model, the fundamental model that underlies the web and modern apps' laws of physics? The inductive willingness of less-savvy people to trust a security model is about iterative ...
...ut before the sense making happened. That creates a lot of chaos and swirl. The mental model for what it is hasn't fully emerged out of collective tinkering yet.
We maintain mental models of the systems that we interact with that can be wrong, and sometimes confuse us. Matt Webb told me he had heard somewhere that humans tend to categ...
...get the illusion of a pre-planned result, when it really wasn't at all. Another mental model: LLMs are like the main character in memento. The main character "wakes up", sees the tattoos and the sticky notes, and says "well I guess the next s...
...kling your brain" is "adding complications to your previously overly simplistic mental model" Wrinkling something makes it more nuanced, more complex, more capable of handling subtlety. Fractally-wrinkled things are more resilient. You can't ...
... the boring things. Boring things here means, "unsurprising", which means "your mental model is sufficiently calibrated to correctly predict its output in practice" For boring things, automate them. Get to good enough and don't overthink it. ...
...t's hard to understand how a black box works. You understand a system when your mental model can accurately predict what it will do in response to most inputs. With a black box you don't know what state it's in at any given point and have to ...
...n triplicate." It's "humbly seek disconfirming evidence and absorb it into your mental model, and don't waste time chasing down the illusion of certainty".
...things they fundamentally disagree on--that are so outside each others' current mental model that they track as incomprehensible noise or actively clash--then they'll lose trust and come out of the conversation with nothing to show for it. Th...
...make active decisions. To take actions means they have to be engaged and have a mental model of the situation. Building a robust, useful mental model is what builds knowhow. So games create knowhow as a kind of byproduct, and that byproduct c...