Posts tagged “long-thinking-series”
Using GraphViz to Build Complex Models Bottom-Up
Complexity is a difficult beast to deal with. One of the core challenges of complexity is the strange independence between the parts and the whole. You may find yourself in a situation where learning about the parts doesn’t help much with learning about the whole; sometimes, learning about the parts can even become misleading.
Rambling about Sorites
Hi Zettlers, I thought I’d share another example of applying anchored model layering. If you missed the last post, read it first. Otherwise, you won’t understand this short post. Here, two anchors are used: The freedom/unfreedom scale and the consciousness scale. This meta-model is an ongoing effort to create a map that brings together many important concepts from different disciplines.
Anchored Model Layering
The time, energy, and focus required to develop a good idea are often overlooked because “having an idea” is conflated with the euphoric moment of first glimpsing what the idea might be. This eureka moment rarely means that you have the idea. Instead, it means you were given a direction to work in to earn the idea.
Supercharging Long Thinking: What Cal Newport's Notebook Method Leaves Out
Long thinking is a term coined by Giovanni Corazza and picked up by Cal Newport. According to Cal Newport, long thinking is the persistent and intentional application of thought toward a specific issue, problem, or idea with the goal of creating substantial and useful new insights.