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One Big Web: A Few Ways the World Works

You might think a healthy information diet – especially one for a business leader or strategist – would have information at the bottom of the pyramid, but you’d be missing a crucial insight. Connection is how we process information.
When there’s a big event in the media, it’s our collective discussion of it that makes it make sense to us. If you wa... See more
When there’s a big event in the media, it’s our collective discussion of it that makes it make sense to us. If you wa... See more
Jean Louis • Information Nutrition
You’ve likely experienced this first hand. An engineer will often think in terms of systems by default. A psychologist will think in terms of incentives. A business person might think in terms of opportunity cost and risk-reward. Through their disciplines, each of these people sees part of the situation, the part of the world that makes sense to th
... See moreRhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
“Having a shared set of narratives, concepts, and symbols is the basis, ultimately, for all culture — religious, national, ethnic, commercial, scientific, etc. How can you operate in biology if you’re not familiar with Darwin? How can you operate in tech if you’re not fluent in Aggregation Theory? You can’t. Even if you think the ideas are wrong, i... See more
How Ideas Grow
Here in these pages, we tackle that complexity. Curiosity connects. And it does so within the connective tissues of brain and body, system and society. And that matters.