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      "id": "brian-eno",
      "title": "Brian Eno",
      "description": "Musician who named the collective genius we call scenius"
    },
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      "id": "carl-sagan",
      "title": "Carl Sagan",
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      "title": "Chunking",
      "description": "Perceiving compound patterns as single units"
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      "id": "creole-technology",
      "title": "Creole Technology",
      "description": "Old technologies repurposed into new contexts"
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      "title": "Daniel Kahneman",
      "description": "Psychologist who named the machinery in your head"
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      "id": "david-pye",
      "title": "David Pye",
      "description": "Craftsman who distinguished risk from certainty in making"
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      "id": "donald-norman",
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      "description": "Cognitive scientist who brought affordances to design"
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      "id": "donella-meadows",
      "title": "Donella Meadows",
      "description": "Systems thinker who mapped leverage points for change"
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      "description": "Essayist who wrote with invisible effort"
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      "id": "high-modernism",
      "title": "High Modernism",
      "description": "The ideology that complex systems can be centrally designed"
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      "id": "ivan-illich",
      "title": "Ivan Illich",
      "description": "Critic who saw modern tools creating new forms of dependence"
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      "id": "james-c-scott",
      "title": "James C. Scott",
      "description": "Political scientist who showed how states simplify what they govern"
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      "id": "james-gibson",
      "title": "James Gibson",
      "description": "Psychologist who saw perception as action, not processing"
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      "id": "joan-didion",
      "title": "Joan Didion",
      "description": "Writer who achieved clarity through precision rather than simplification"
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      "id": "ma",
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      "description": "The space that makes the rest visible"
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      "id": "michael-polanyi",
      "title": "Michael Polanyi",
      "description": "Philosopher who articulated what we know but cannot say"
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      "id": "multiple-discovery",
      "title": "Multiple Discovery",
      "description": "The same invention appearing independently at the same time"
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      "id": "nassim-taleb",
      "title": "Nassim Nicholas Taleb",
      "description": "Risk theorist who writes in antifragile aphorisms"
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      "id": "paul-graham",
      "title": "Paul Graham",
      "description": "Essayist who writes to discover what he thinks"
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      "id": "radical-monopoly",
      "title": "Radical Monopoly",
      "description": "When a technology becomes mandatory for participation"
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      "id": "rebound-effect",
      "title": "Rebound Effect",
      "description": "Efficiency gains that increase total consumption"
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      "id": "richard-dawkins",
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      "description": "Biologist who made genes and memes tools for thinking"
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      "id": "richard-feynman",
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      "id": "scott-alexander",
      "title": "Scott Alexander",
      "description": "Blogger who makes long essays easy to read"
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      "id": "shibusa",
      "title": "Shibusa",
      "description": "Beauty with inner implications"
    },
    {
      "id": "shokunin",
      "title": "Shokunin",
      "description": "Craftsman who polishes technique and heart through daily practice"
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      "id": "stephen-jay-gould",
      "title": "Stephen Jay Gould",
      "description": "Paleontologist who wrote essays as a mind in motion"
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      "id": "steven-johnson",
      "title": "Steven Johnson",
      "description": "Writer who traces how ideas emerge from networks and niches"
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      "id": "stewart-brand",
      "title": "Stewart Brand",
      "description": "Editor who thinks on civilizational timescales"
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      "id": "technical-debt",
      "title": "Technical Debt",
      "description": "A financial metaphor for deferred code quality"
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    {
      "id": "thomas-schelling",
      "title": "Thomas Schelling",
      "description": "Game theorist who showed how strangers coordinate without talking"
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      "id": "vaclav-smil",
      "title": "Vaclav Smil",
      "description": "Scientist who insists on numbers before opinions"
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    {
      "id": "wabi-sabi",
      "title": "Wabi-sabi",
      "description": "Beauty in impermanence and imperfection"
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      "id": "zeitgeist",
      "title": "Zeitgeist",
      "description": "The spirit of the time that makes certain discoveries possible"
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}