🧭 Domain
Thinking Systems
Think in SystemsSeeing patterns, interdependencies, and feedback loops to make better decisions in complex, dynamic environments.
Practice Area
Design Better Mental Models Mental Model Design
Building explicit representations of system behavior to support shared understanding.
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Ensuring teams converge on compatible models of the system they’re shaping.
Practice Area
Know Thy Own Thinking Metacognition
Awareness of your own thinking, feeling and sensing patterns.
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Patterns of flawed reasoning that distort decision-making and perception.
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Routines that make reflection and meta-awareness a regular part of work.
Practice Area
Adopt Multiple Ways of Knowing Modes of Cognition
Frameworks for understanding how people think — analytical, intuitive, embodied, narrative — and designing systems that draw on them.
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Techniques to deliberately change perspective and reveal new insights.