Lakoff
- we literally store memories near related metaphors
- Complex or abstract thinking becomes simple metaphors — use them intentionally
Keinamen - Thinking Fast & Slow
- even awareness of bias does not reduce bias
- Designing systems to challenge bias directly or slow down thinking to reduce it
Kierkegaard
- leap of faith
- Inability to believe
Nietzsche
- will to power
- shedding slave morality
- creative destruction
Gestalt
- whole is more than just sum of part
de Beauvoir
- we conflate what is socially constructed with what is natural
- Women are a social construct
Deleuze
- all empirical knowledge first requires the art of concept creation
- Ex are photons distinct from or part of the sun? Are colors part of the sunset or separate from? Why?
- Science can only study defined concepts
- Beginning and ending of anything is subjective
Team Topologies Wardley Mapping John Cutler
The Taos Upanishads