Decision Making

  • Optimal Granularity in Decision Models: Precision fades into noise.
  • Law of Parsimony (Occam’s Razor): Cut deep, keep it simple.
  • Bounded Rationality: Choices fenced by limits.
  • Prospect Theory: We gamble on perception.
  • Information Theory: Signals thrive on scarcity.
  • Satisficing: Good enough trumps perfect.
  • Bounded Rationality: Decisions live in limits.
  • Fast-and-frugal trees: Speed saves precision.
  • Gigerenzer’s Adaptive Toolbox: Smart shortcuts in thought.
  • Recognition Heuristic: Familiarity guides choices.
  • Take-the-best heuristic: Good enough beats perfect.
  • Probabilistic Thinking: Likelihood governs all.
  • Finding meaning in decision making: Significance shapes outcomes.
  • Commitment and Consistency: Steadfast beliefs steer behavior.
  • Dilution Effect: Details weaken impact.
  • Dilemma of Choice: Options paralyze decisions.
  • Adversarial Collaboration: Conflict sharpens truths.
  • Groupthink: Consensus stifles insight.
  • Dissent and Decision-Making Models: Disagreement unlocks clarity.
  • Psychological Safety: Fear kills ideas.
  • The Dual-Process Models of Persuasion: Logic or emotion drives conviction.
  • Complex Adaptive Systems Theory: Chaos births order.
  • Dimensionality Reduction: Strip away complexity.
  • Goodhart’s Law: Targets warp behavior.

Linguistics

  • Prosody: Rhythm makes meaning.
  • Performative: Words act upon the world.
  • Infelicities: Speech stumbles in context.
  • Sonority Hierarchy: Sound’s rank structures speech.
  • Conduit metaphor: Language channels thought.
  • Language and Human Understanding: Words and minds align.
  • Language Compositionality: Parts form meaning.
  • Animacy: Life animates language.
  • Language Comparison Framework: Comparing reveals distinctions.

Mathematics

  • Regression to the Mean: Extremes fade toward average.
  • Ordinal and Cardinal Infinity: Infinities beyond imagination.
  • Aleatory and Epistemic Uncertainty: Chance and ignorance entwined.
  • Kurtosis: Extremes spike the average.
  • Imaginary Number i: Numbers slip dimensions.
  • Dimensionality Reduction: Simplify complexity into clarity.
  • Probabilistic vs Statistical Models: Predict or explain phenomena.

Medicine

  • Iatrogenesis: Treatment spawns harm.

Philosophy

  • Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis: Conflict forges unity.
  • Wabi-Sabi: Beauty in imperfection.
  • Normative perspective: What ought to be.
  • Categorical Imperative: Act universally.
  • Human Stupidity: Foolishness knows no bounds.
  • Aphorism: Truths distilled in few words.
  • Time is the filtered now: The moment shaped by memory.
  • Diversity of Thought: Differing views drive insight.
  • Manichaeism: Dualities define existence.
  • Path Dependence: History locks choices.
  • Emergence: Simplicity begets complexity.
  • Eudaimonia (Aristotle): Flourish through virtue.
  • Epistemology: Knowledge’s boundaries questioned.
  • Phenomenology: Experience as it appears.
  • Hermeneutics: Understanding through interpretation.
  • Existentialism: Freedom defines existence.

Physics

  • We get low entropy from the sun and emit high entropy: Energy disperses, chaos grows.
  • Decoherence: Quantum order dissolves.
  • Enthalpy: Energy, tightly bound.
  • Free Energy: Usable energy dwindles.

Politics

  • Kleptocracy: Theft governs.

Psychology

  • Probabilistic Thinking: Odds shape choices.
  • Free Energy Principle: Minds minimize uncertainty.
  • Toolmaker’s paradigm: Tools build minds.
  • Covert Power Strategies: Control hides in shadows.
  • Streisand Effect: Suppression amplifies attention.
  • Reactance: Resistance to control grows.
  • Social Exchange Theory: Relationships as transactions.
  • Cognitive Load Theory: Minds overheat from complexity.
  • Flow Theory: Absorption in the task.
  • Incremental Theory of Intelligence: Effort builds ability.
  • Self-Determination Theory: Autonomy fuels motivation.
  • Tacit knowledge: Unspoken wisdom.
  • Explicit knowledge: Documented understanding.
  • Moral psychology: Morality shapes decisions.
  • Moral emotions: Feelings define right and wrong.
  • Declarative knowledge: Facts stored and stated.
  • Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development: Morality matures with age.
  • Psychology of Belief Updation: Minds evolve beliefs.
  • Scope Insensitivity: Size distorts perception.
  • Implicit knowledge: Hidden understanding.
  • Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom (DIKW) Pyramid: Data evolves into wisdom.
  • SECI Model: Knowledge converts through interaction.
  • Rage Bait: Anger drives engagement.
  • Machiavellianism: Manipulation in pursuit of power.

Work Productivity

  • Ticket Based Systems: When not to use: Structure stifles innovation.
  • Data granularity in reports needs to capture distinctions: Details fuel decisions.
  • Nonaka and Takeuchi’s Knowledge Creation Theory: Ideas spiral into action.
  • Knowledge types in Data Science and Software Engineering Teams: Context shapes expertise.
  • Superforecaster portrait: Clarity in complex predictions.
  • Humility for Good Judgement: Doubt sharpens wisdom.
  • Feynman Technique: Teach to understand.