Concepts and abstractions that help communicate the way we perceive and understand the world.
When playing a trading card game, how many cards are you able to take per tern from your deck? How many different decks do you… Read More »Trading cards and Deck building: A mental model for opportunities and activities
Treating my past, present, and future selves as individuals that I interact with directly helps me optimize my life: increase happiness, reduce regrets, address laziness,… Read More »The past, the present, the future me
There were only a few hours left until the culminating tech presentation my team and I were preparing for. I find myself grinding out the… Read More »Being human, wise, clever, and hardworking
The mental model of the broken bicycle is from a personal story of mine that identifies conditioning that was instilled while one was younger, triggering… Read More »The broken bicycle
I think that story telling is an excellent way to introduce mathematical concepts applied in real life scenarios. I think that it is an effective… Read More »Numeracy and Scale
A few months back, I wrote about one of the mental models I use called The Mountain. If you haven’t read it yet, I highly… Read More »Climbing Celeste
The mental model of the mountain assists in understanding complexity of processes. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao Tzu… Read More »The Mountain
This concept is one of the general mental models that communicate complexity. It is primarily visualized as stairs as each step conveys a different level.… Read More »The Stairs