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Reversibility: The Joy of Starting From a Saved State
Save your game state, and Load when you need it.
 • Michał Poczwardowski
Scale - Mental Model: Imagine the Future
Understand scale before it breaks.
 • Michał Poczwardowski
Replication - Mental Model
The copying mechanism that keeps us alive.
 • Michał Poczwardowski
Catalysts - Mental Model: Accelerating Change
Speeding up reactions.
 • Michał Poczwardowski
Surface Area - Mental Model
How much of your success depends on luck?
 • Michał Poczwardowski
Thought Experiment - Mental Model: What If?
Be a scientist, forecaster, explorer, or daydreamer. Do it all inside your own head.
 • Michał Poczwardowski
Reciprocity - Mental Model
Real-world karma: spreading good will bring you good.
 • Michał Poczwardowski
OODA Loop — Decide Like Fighter Pilots
Fast decisions, incomplete information — everyday reality in engineering leadership.
 • Michał Poczwardowski
The Red Queen Effect - Mental Model: Work Smarter, Not Faster
Are you running fast but seem to stay in the same place?
 • Michał Poczwardowski
Evolution - Mental Model: AI-voiding Extinction
Species adapt, or they go extinct.
 • Michał Poczwardowski
Leverage - Mental Model
“Give me a lever long enough, and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” — Archimedes
 • Michał Poczwardowski
Critical Mass - Mental Model
Buying my first pair of proper running shoes was one of the best decisions of my life.
 • Michał Poczwardowski
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