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Terms, people, concepts — 38 entries
People (26)
Brian Eno 2
Musician who named the collective genius we call scenius Carl Sagan 1
Astronomer who balanced wonder with skepticism Christopher Alexander 1
Architect who saw design as a language of recurring solutions Daniel Kahneman 2
Psychologist who named the machinery in your head David Pye 2
Craftsman who distinguished risk from certainty in making Donald Norman 4
Cognitive scientist who brought affordances to design Donella Meadows 6
Systems thinker who mapped leverage points for change E.B. White
Essayist who wrote with invisible effort G.K. Chesterton 1
Writer who warned against reforming what you don't understand George Orwell 3
Writer who treated clarity as an ethical stance Herbert Simon 2
Polymath who showed that rationality has bounds Ivan Illich 4
Critic who saw modern tools creating new forms of dependence James C. Scott 4
Political scientist who showed how states simplify what they govern James Gibson 3
Psychologist who saw perception as action, not processing Joan Didion 1
Writer who achieved clarity through precision rather than simplification Michael Polanyi 1
Philosopher who articulated what we know but cannot say Nassim Nicholas Taleb 5
Risk theorist who writes in antifragile aphorisms Paul Graham 5
Essayist who writes to discover what he thinks Richard Dawkins 1
Biologist who made genes and memes tools for thinking Richard Feynman 1
Physicist who made explanation a moral act Scott Alexander 1
Blogger who makes long essays easy to read Stephen Jay Gould 1
Paleontologist who wrote essays as a mind in motion Steven Johnson 5
Writer who traces how ideas emerge from networks and niches Stewart Brand 4
Editor who thinks on civilizational timescales Thomas Schelling 4
Game theorist who showed how strangers coordinate without talking Vaclav Smil 1
Scientist who insists on numbers before opinions Other
Chunking 37
Perceiving compound patterns as single units Creole Technology 3
Old technologies repurposed into new contexts High Modernism 6
The ideology that complex systems can be centrally designed Ma 99
The space that makes the rest visible Multiple Discovery 4
The same invention appearing independently at the same time Radical Monopoly 3
When a technology becomes mandatory for participation Rebound Effect 1
Efficiency gains that increase total consumption Shibusa 5
Beauty with inner implications Shokunin 13
Craftsman who polishes technique and heart through daily practice Technical Debt 2
A financial metaphor for deferred code quality Wabi-sabi 13
Beauty in impermanence and imperfection Zeitgeist 4
The spirit of the time that makes certain discoveries possible