Useful Thinking Frameworks and Mental Models

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Frameworks
Mental Models
Models of Thinking
New and Improved Areas
Thinking
Useful Stuff

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"Laws"
2020-09-24 OGM Call: Bootstrapping Ourselves
2022-07-28 OGM Call
2022-12-29 OGM Call
2023-04-12 FoTL Call (awesome)
2023-04-13 OGM Check-in Call
ACE: Atlas - Calendar - Efforts
Actor-Network Theory (ANT)
Analytic Frameworks
Appreciation Influence and Control (AIC) Model
Appreciative Inquiry
Asking Better Questions
BANI (2018 Brittle Anxious Nonlinear Incomprehensible)
Bayes' Theorem
BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals)
Blind Variation And Selective Retention (BVSR)
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies (2018)
Both/And Thinking
Brainstorming Techniques
BUMPS (Big Unsolved Meaningful Problems worth Solving)
Business Model Canvas (2008)
Business Process Patterns (2023 project)
Capability Maturity Model (1986 CMM)
Catalytic Thinking Practices (Core Philosophy & Values)
Choosing the Right Framework, Model or Tool
CODE (Capture, Organize, Distill, Express) Methodology
Common Sense Framework (CSF)
Conceptual Models
Conscious Stack Design (CSD)
Crash Theory
Creating the Future (2011)
Creativity Tools
Cynefin (five domain framework)
Decision Making Models
Design Methodologies
Diagrams and Charts
Disney Method (1994 Walt Disney Creative Strategy)
Double Diamond (design process model)
Effects
Eisenhower Matrix (Method)
Envisioning Positive Futures
Estuarine Mapping Framework
Famous Curves
Favorite Models for Sensemaking amid Complexity
Four Levels of Conversation
Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD)
Free Energy Principle (Active Inference, FEP/ActInf)
Futures Tools and Techniques
Grounded Theory Methodology (GT)
Group Process Tools and Techniques
Gurwinder’s 40 Useful Concepts Thread (#1)
Gurwinder’s 40 Useful Concepts Thread (#2)
H-LAM/T: Humans Using Language, Artifacts & Methodologies in Which They Are Trained
Hanlon's Razor
Hume's Fork (relations of ideas vs matters of fact)
In a Complex Multi-faceted Situation, Which Details Are Most
Infinite Games
Innovation Techniques
Intelligence Analysis
JA’s Adaptation of Amory’s Integrative Design Framework
Jobs-To-Be-Done Framework (JTBD)
Keeprah Holistic Model
Kitted Thinking Tools
Ladder of Abstraction
LATCH: Location, Alphabets, Time, Categories, Hierarchies
Leadership Models
Lean Startup
Lewin’s Change Management Model
Lists and Collections of Useful Frameworks
MetaImpact Framework (MiF)
Metaphoric Windows
Metaphysics behind Problem Solving
Methodologies
Models and Theories of Individual and Social Dynamics
Models of Change
Models of Communication
Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) Framework
Network Effects (Nfx)
Occam's Razor
Octalysis: Complete Gamification Framework
OFNR Model (Observations Feelings Needs Requests)
Operations Research (OR) Tools
Organizational Change Frameworks
Other Canvases
Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning (2018)
Pattern Languages
PERMA (Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Achievement)
Pete Had GPT Generate Patterns from my List of Thinking Frameworks
Polarity Management
Porter Five Forces Analysis (1979)
Power Tools for Critical Thinking
Problem Solving Frameworks and Tools
Problem Structuring Methods (PSMs)
Qualitative Process Theory (1984 pdf)
r/K Selection Theory
Razors (philosophy and epistemology)
Scientific Method
Service-Dominant (S-D) Logic
Shearing Layers
SIFT (Stop, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, and Trace claims, quotes and media to the original source)
SIPDE (Scan, Identify, Predict, Decide, and Execute)
Six Thinking Hats (1985)
Skill Challenge Framework (the Flow Model)
Solving for Pattern
Soviet Subversion Model (a great brainwashing)
Spiral Dynamics
Strategy Knotworking (SKW)
Sustainability Agents Have Four Operating Guidelines: Diversify, Connect, Interact and Adapt
System Dynamics
Techniques for Storytelling
The 5 Level Framework (5LF)
The CASEL Wheel
The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything
The Gorman Decision Matrix
The Great Mental Models (series)
The LUMAS Model (Learning for a User by a Methodology-informed Approach to a problem Situation)
The NFX Frameworks Collection for Founders
The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information
The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID)
The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking (1985)
The Red Thread (5 steps)
The Six Pillars of Futures Studies
The Two Curve Problem
The Yamas and Niyamas Are Excellent Guidance for Living a Good Life in Community
Theories of Consciousness
Theories of Everything (TOEs in philosophy)
Theories of Mind
Theory of Constraints (ToC)
There Are only Three Responses to a Crash
Thinking at the Edge (TAE)
Three Horizons (crisis, turbulence, viability)
Three Questions Analysis
Tools for Thought: How to Understand and Apply the Latest Scientific Techniques of Problem Solving (1977)
Toyota Production System (TPS)
Triad of Commoning Framework
Type I and type II errors (statistics)
Types of Map and Mapping
Types of Planning
Universals: Things We All Use to Make Sense of the World
Useful (and Different) Models of Brain Function
Useful Planning Approaches
Useful Thinking Frameworks and Mental Models
Useful Thinking Frameworks and Mental Models: a tour in Jerry's Brain
Value Networks
Vester's Sensitivity Model
Vision Deployment Matrix: A Framework for Large-Scale Change
visual frameworks – A language of patterns (xlnt)
VUCA (Volatility Uncertainty Complexity Ambiguity)

Jumps

Essentially, All Models Are Wrong, but Some Are Useful
Fake Frameworks
Framework Finder (by Ethan Mollick)
Mapping Tools for Thinking
Obsolete Mental Models

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