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List of Lists of Concepts
"Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of -
Conceptspace Wikia
"I think the best question is, "Is there anything I can do to make my whole life and my whole mental process work better?" And I would say that developing the habit of mastering -
Optimal Brainstorming
Optimal Brainstorming refers to a set of heuristics for productive brainstorming sessions informed by creativity research as well as the experience of the CIA in directing analyst groups in scenario and idea generation. It subverts -
Generative Prompts
Brainstorming Questions instead of Answers Which questions, if answered, would make this problem much easier?, What kind of evidence would be relevant to someone making decisions about this?, What kind of clarifying questions would an -
Problem Formulation
"If a problem seems too hard, the formulation is probably wrong." -David Chapman Often when working our way through a problem we become stuck. Getting unstuck can just be a matter of applying the -
Metamodeling
"When guys at MIT or Princeton had trouble doing a certain integral, it was because they couldn’t do it with the standard methods they had learned in school. If it was contour integration -
Prototype Page
"Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products." -Alexander Osterwalder The concept of a prototype is a cheap test of several of the key assumptions -
Average Decision Quality
"The quality of our lives depends on the quality of the decisions we make." -Ray Dalio In motivation systems, it is often recommended to reward/reinforce any behavior that is better than your average -
Evidence/Update Proportionality
In general, assuming we are following good search strategies, our updates will generally decrease in size as we converge on consistent interpretations of the available data. Scientific theories and laws are models that have such -
Reference Class Forecasting
Reference class forecasting is a technique for improving predictions across a broad range of problems developed by Kahneman and Tversky. Consider a simple example: You are trying to decide how long it will take to -
Open mode vs. Closed mode
"Creativity is not a talent; it's a way of operating." -John Cleese Open and Closed mode are an idea that arose during creativity research to explain the cluster of behaviors seen in highly -
Critical Path
The critical path of a project is the longest chain of non-parallelizable tasks in terms of total time taken for completion. Other tasks may have dependencies, prerequisites, or exhibit'total float', which indicates that -
Oblique Search Strategies
"The questions that are being asked must change". -Thomas S. Kuhn Oblique search strategies are prompts that alter the formulation of the problem. This can often help get a problem unstuck in the cases -
Anchoring and Adjustment
Anchoring and Adjustment is a term used to refer to the way people form beliefs as well as usually referencing the common errors in this process as documented by Kahnemen and Tversky, as well as -
List of Motivation Concepts
Activation Energy, Can't Bullshit Yourself, Carrot and Stick, Decision Fatigue, Distraction Log, Feedback loop delay, Flow State, Focused Grit, Goal Progress vs Goal Commitment, Hamming Question, Hedonic Treadmill, Identity Consistency Effect, Increasing Marginal Utility -
List of Buddhism Concepts
"What we think, we become." -unknown Attention and Awareness, Desire and Suffering, Eightfold Path, Expand-Contract, Hindrances to Spiritual Improvement, Non-duality, Persistent Non-symbolic Experiences, Positive Trauma, Prana, Pure Motive -
List of Ontology Concepts
Boundary Sharpness, Clustering, Fantasy Ontology, LATCH, Natural Kind (carving reality at the joints), Ontological Crisis, Ontological Lock In, Ontological Unsatisfiability, Taxonomy Schemas, Type Error, Wastebasket Taxon -
List of Dimensions
"Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself." -Aldous Huxley This is a list of dimensions along which personal philosophies or metaphysical systems might differ. That people -
Self care checklist
In the past day have I: Set any intentions for myself Drunk enough water, Eaten enough to feel satiated but not full, Slept enough to feel rested, Taken any indicated medication, Taken a shower, Brushed -
List of Useful Checklists
bottleneck analysis checklist, brainstorming checklist, charisma/persuasion checklist, deliberate practice checklist, emotional state shift checklist, experimental checklist, first aid checklist, key consideration checklist, planning checklist, psychological safety checklist, reference class modeling checklist, searching checklist, self -
List of Rationality Concepts
This list is so named for drawing its concepts from the rationality community i.e. LessWrong, CFAR, Slate Star Codex, and the related blogosphere. 5 Second Skills, Agency, Attention Triage, Bingo Card Fallacy, Bugs vs -
Useful Search Methods
This is a list of characteristics present across many useful search methods, and often serve as a good starting point in completely novel problem domains. connotation explosion, expertise search, invariants, inversion, key word map, noise -
List of Search Concepts
Chunking Heuristics, Constraint Propagation, Constraint Satisfaction, Filter Strength, Local vs Global Search, Partitioning the Search Space, Problem Domain/Search Heuristic Fit, Means-end Analysis, Minmax, Search Algorithms and Deseridata, Search Metaphors, Useful Search Methods -
List of Cognitive Bias Concepts
Note: this list is NOT intended as a recreation of wikipedia's list of cognitive biases. Rather it is a list of cognitive bias concepts, which is to say higher level categories/features of cognition -
List of Pedagogical Concepts
ADEPT framework, Anchoring learning, Antagnonistic teaching, Attention Span limitations, Big ideas early and often, Cargo Cults, Carrot vs stick, Consistent metaphor, Crucible, Deliberate practice, Disfluency, Fill in the blanks, Fixer upper, Guessing the teacher's
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