Tag
systems
Entries tagged with systems - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.
8 concepts
Alienation
The feeling of being disconnected from your work, from other people, and from yourself by the structures you live within.
Cultural InfluenceCultural Defaults
The unexamined norms we follow simply because they're treated as standard.
Cultural InfluenceFalse Consciousness
Supporting systems that work against your own interests because the culture has made them feel natural and inevitable.
Systems ThinkingNetwork Effects
When a product, platform, or system becomes more valuable to each user as more people use it - creating powerful winner-take-all dynamics.
Cultural InfluenceReification
Treating human-made ideas, systems, and social arrangements as if they were natural, fixed, and unchangeable things.
Cultural InfluenceStructural Violence
Harm built into the design of social systems rather than inflicted by any individual act of aggression.
Cultural InfluenceThe Meritocracy Myth
The belief that success is earned purely through talent and effort, hiding the structural advantages that shape outcomes.
Systems ThinkingTipping Points
The critical threshold at which a small change triggers a rapid, often irreversible shift in the behaviour of a system.