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Entries tagged with systems - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.

8 concepts

Cultural Influence

Alienation 

The feeling of being disconnected from your work, from other people, and from yourself by the structures you live within.

Cultural Influence

Cultural Defaults 

The unexamined norms we follow simply because they're treated as standard.

Cultural Influence

False Consciousness 

Supporting systems that work against your own interests because the culture has made them feel natural and inevitable.

Systems Thinking

Network 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 Influence

Reification 

Treating human-made ideas, systems, and social arrangements as if they were natural, fixed, and unchangeable things.

Cultural Influence

Structural Violence 

Harm built into the design of social systems rather than inflicted by any individual act of aggression.

Cultural Influence

The Meritocracy Myth 

The belief that success is earned purely through talent and effort, hiding the structural advantages that shape outcomes.

Systems Thinking

Tipping Points 

The critical threshold at which a small change triggers a rapid, often irreversible shift in the behaviour of a system.