Very cool idea but I was disappointed that Socratic Questioning wasn't included.
Here's an example of how that can be applied to tech decisions: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/would-socrates-use-docker-tod...
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#43Very cool idea but I was disappointed that Socratic Questioning wasn't included. Here's an example of how that can be applied to tech decisions: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/would-socrates-use-docker-tod...
It is mentioned in "First principles": https://untools.co/first-principles
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Hm that's hard to accomplish with simple text files. You can checkout Emvi [1]. That's not exactly what you're looking for but you can link everything using the @ key and export to HTML and markdown. [1] https://emvi.com/
it's unfortunate that just being able to link documents is difficult within text files
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#45I love reading about and visualizing about mental models. This site is great for quickly and concisely internalizing them! Thank you for making it!
Another great resource for folks who like reading about these: https://fs.blog/mental-models/
I've actually read the mental models series of books put out by the above author, and I also highly recommend those for a deeper dive.
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#46Fantastic toolset.
I found the posts by Leyla Acaroglu [1] an excellent introduction to systems thinking and many of these concepts
[1]: https://medium.com/disruptive-design/search?q=tools%20for%20...
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#47does anyone know a simple app that allows hyperlinking within notes? I want to create a roam-style knowledge base, but most tools are too heavy for my purposes. I prefer to keep things cross-compatible and future proof with .txt or .rtf, but to my knowledge, neither allow hyperlinking to documents
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#48This is a really nice presentation of these ideas.
However, I think that the Decision Matrix idea is too complicated: specifically the part where he advocates adding a weighting to each factor being considered to arrive at a numerical score.
At Microsoft, some of us use a system that I like to call the "Abolade decision making framework." It's the same idea, but instead of assigning weights to factors, we simply rank them. Additionally, the factors are expressed as positive attributes and an option either has that factor or it doesn't. A factor could be "Has vibrant colors" or it could be "Less than $10" for example. The type of a factor is Boolean :)
The goal is to generate a table with the options presented as columns and the factors presented as rows. You spend a lot of time as a group figuring out what the factors are, and then you spend a lot of time ranking them. Once you have agreement, you start working on the options. The winning option is one where you have the longest continuous line of check marks for each factor starting from the top.
Smart people, of course will try to game this system to choose their preferred outcome ... you need to be vigilant about this :)
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#49One important aspect of human thinking is the need to form narratives to make sense of the world.
We don't live or think in abstract algebra or abstract heuristics. We live and think in a world-view in which problems arise and for each problem, we have a set of potential solutions, often unconscious.
This website has good information - it just doesn't do a good job of organizing them into a coherent narrative.
It's not enough to know what probability is, if you never think to use it to ask the question what are the chances one religion out of thousands that all claim they are the only true religion, is actually the true religion?
One of the big issues of modern society is people being taught/given disconnected bits of information, without a guide on how to fit them into a coherent narrative. This isn't done by accident and a lot of people have given it a great deal of thought - some call it post-modernism.
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#50does anyone know a simple app that allows hyperlinking within notes? I want to create a roam-style knowledge base, but most tools are too heavy for my purposes. I prefer to keep things cross-compatible and future proof with .txt or .rtf, but to my knowledge, neither allow hyperlinking to documents
https://notebag.app/
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