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- A Bad System Beats a Good Person mental-model
- A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure metaphor
medicine → decision-making - A Force Is a Moving Object metaphor
embodied-experience → physics - A Hard Row to Hoe metaphor
agriculture → difficulty - A La Minute metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior - A Place to Wait metaphor
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - A Problem Is a Body of Water metaphor
fluid-dynamics → causal-reasoning - A Problem Is a Locked Container for Its Solution metaphor
containers → causal-reasoning - A Problem Is a Region in a Landscape metaphor
journeys → causal-reasoning - A Room of One's Own pattern
architecture-and-building → organizational-behavior, software-abstraction - A Schedule Is a Moving Object metaphor
physics → time-and-temporality - Abilities Are Entities Inside A Person metaphor
containers → mental-experience - Above Board metaphor
seafaring → ethics-and-morality - Accessible Green pattern
architecture-and-building → organizational-structure - Accidental Complexity metaphor
intellectual-inquiry → software-programs - Achilles' Heel metaphor
mythology → network-security, argumentation - Acting Compulsively Is Ingesting A Substance Compulsively metaphor
compulsive-ingestion → mental-experience - Acting On Is Transferring An Object metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Action at a Distance metaphor
physics → software-programs - Action Is Control Over Possessions metaphor
economics → event-structure - Action Is Motion metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Actions Are Self-Propelled Motions metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Activation Energy mental-model
physics - Active Is Alive metaphor
life-course → event-structure - Activities Are Containers metaphor
containers → event-structure - Activity Nodes pattern
architecture-and-building → organizational-structure - Adaptive Cycle mental-model
ecology - Aegis metaphor
mythology → governance, social-behavior - Affection Is Warmth metaphor
embodied-experience → love-and-relationships - Against the Grain metaphor
carpentry → social-dynamics - Agent Swarm metaphor
animal-behavior → artificial-intelligence - AI Alignment Is Training an Animal metaphor
animal-training → artificial-intelligence - AI Hallucination Is Perception Disorder metaphor
medicine → artificial-intelligence - AI Is a Black Box metaphor
containers → artificial-intelligence - AI Is a Copilot metaphor
aviation → artificial-intelligence - AI Is a Magnifying Glass metaphor
vision → artificial-intelligence - AI Is a Mirror metaphor
vision → artificial-intelligence - AI Is a Pair Programmer metaphor
collaborative-work → artificial-intelligence - AI Is a Prosthesis metaphor
medicine → artificial-intelligence - AI Is a Spell Checker metaphor
tool-use → artificial-intelligence - AI Is a Tool metaphor
tool-use → artificial-intelligence - AI Is an Agent metaphor
governance → artificial-intelligence - AI Is an Iceberg metaphor
natural-phenomena → artificial-intelligence - AI Is an Intern metaphor
social-roles → artificial-intelligence - AI Is an Oracle metaphor
religion → artificial-intelligence - AI Safety Is Containment metaphor
containers → artificial-intelligence - Alchemy metaphor
mythology → creative-process - Alcoves pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction, organizational-behavior - Alignment Is Physical Alignment metaphor
physics → artificial-intelligence - All Bleeding Stops metaphor
medicine → decision-making - All Day metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior - All Warfare Is Deception mental-model
military-history - Amara's Law mental-model
perception-and-cognition - Amor Fati paradigm
philosophy - An Army Marches on Its Stomach metaphor
military-history → organizational-behavior, logistics - An Instrument Is a Companion metaphor
social-roles → tool-use - Analysis Paralysis metaphor
medicine → decision-making - Anchor Point metaphor
fire-safety → decision-making - Anchoring mental-model
- Andon paradigm
manufacturing → organizational-behavior - Anger Is a Heated Fluid in a Container metaphor
fluid-dynamics → mental-experience - Anger Is Heat metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Animals Are Moral Agents metaphor
animal-behavior → ethics-and-morality - Ansible Is Instant Communication metaphor
science-fiction → computing, communication - Antifragile mental-model
resilience - Apex Predator metaphor
ecology → economics, organizational-behavior - Apocalypse archetype
religion → political-discourse, technology-criticism - Applause Line metaphor
theater-and-performance → political-discourse, argumentation - Apprenticeship in Thinking metaphor
education → learning-and-development - Argument from Authority mental-model
- Argument Is a Building metaphor
architecture-and-building → argumentation - Argument Is a Container metaphor
containers → argumentation - Argument Is a Journey metaphor
journeys → argumentation - Argument Is Dance metaphor
dance → argumentation - Argument Is War metaphor
war → argumentation - Arranging Spaces, Perfecting Movements mental-model
food-and-cooking - Arrow's Impossibility Theorem paradigm
mathematical-logic - Art Is a Battle, a Mill That Grinds metaphor
war → creative-process - Art Is Making Something Better Without Knowing What Better Is paradigm
visual-arts-practice → creative-process - Art Is Never Finished, Only Abandoned mental-model
visual-arts-practice - Aspects Of The Self Are Distinct Individuals metaphor
social-roles → mental-experience - Assimilation and Accommodation metaphor
biology → education, mental-experience - At Loggerheads metaphor
seafaring → argumentation - Attachment as Bond metaphor
materials → mental-experience, social-dynamics - Attachment Styles mental-model
folk-taxonomy - Attack Surface metaphor
war → security-analysis - Attributes Are Entities metaphor
physical-objects → event-structure - Audit Trails Are Forensic Footprints metaphor
forensics → network-security - Augean Stables metaphor
mythology → governance - Authority Is Height metaphor
spatial-location → authority-and-mentorship - Bad Is Stinky metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Baklava Code metaphor
food-and-cooking → software-programs - Balance of Nature paradigm
ecology → philosophy, environmental-policy - Ball in a Pool metaphor
physics → psychotherapy - Banach-Tarski Paradox mental-model
set-theory - Bankrupt metaphor
architecture-and-building → economics - Barn-Raising metaphor
collaborative-work → software-engineering, social-dynamics - Base Actions on Current and Expected Fire Behavior mental-model
fire-safety - Batten Down the Hatches metaphor
seafaring → event-structure - Bayesian Updating mental-model
probability - Beachhead Strategy metaphor
military-history → competition - Beauty Is a Flower metaphor
horticulture → aesthetics - Behind pattern
food-and-cooking → communication - Beliefs Are Beings with a Life Cycle metaphor
life-course → mental-experience - Beliefs Are Fashions metaphor
social-behavior → mental-experience - Beliefs Are Guides metaphor
journeys → mental-experience - Beliefs Are Locations metaphor
journeys → mental-experience - Beliefs Are Love Objects metaphor
love-and-relationships → mental-experience - Beliefs Are Possessions metaphor
economics → mental-experience - Berserker metaphor
mythology → social-control - Best Carpenters Make the Fewest Chips mental-model
carpentry - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea metaphor
seafaring → event-structure - Bicycle for the Mind metaphor
embodied-experience → computing - Big Ball of Mud metaphor
embodied-experience → software-programs - Big Brother Is Surveillance metaphor
science-fiction → surveillance - Bikeshedding metaphor
architecture-and-building → collaborative-work - Biodiversity Loss metaphor
ecology → organizational-behavior, software-engineering - Birthday Paradox mental-model
probability - Bitter End metaphor
seafaring → event-structure - Black Sheep metaphor
animal-husbandry → social-identity - Blast Radius metaphor
war → security-analysis - Boat Anchor metaphor
tool-use → software-programs - Boil the Ocean metaphor
natural-phenomena → collaborative-work - Boots on the Ground metaphor
war → organizational-behavior - Bottleneck metaphor
containers → systems-performance - Boundary Object mental-model
social-dynamics - Bounded Context pattern
software-architecture → organizational-structure - Brand metaphor
animal-husbandry → economics - Brave New World Is Technological Control metaphor
science-fiction → social-control, technology-risk - Breadcrumb Trail metaphor
narrative → software-programs - Break Down Barriers metaphor
architecture-and-building → organizational-behavior - Brigade System paradigm
food-and-cooking → organizational-structure - Broadcast metaphor
horticulture → communication - Brooks's Law mental-model
- Buffer Overflow metaphor
fluid-dynamics → memory-management - Bug metaphor
organism → software-programs - Building Complex pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Building Edge pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Burnout metaphor
fire-safety → psychology, organizational-behavior - Bus Factor metaphor
embodied-experience → shared-resources - Business Ecosystem metaphor
ecology → economics, software-engineering - Butterfly Effect metaphor
dynamical-systems → causal-reasoning - By and Large metaphor
seafaring → language - C Casting metaphor
manufacturing → type-system - C Pointer metaphor
embodied-experience → software-programs - C String metaphor
manufacturing → computing - Calculated Risk metaphor
military-history → decision-making, risk-and-uncertainty - Call and Callback pattern
food-and-cooking → communication - Callback metaphor
comedy-craft → argumentation, narrative, performance - Canary in a Coal Mine metaphor
mining → risk-and-uncertainty - Cancer Surgery Formula paradigm
medicine → economics - Capital metaphor
animal-husbandry → economics - Cargo Cult Programming metaphor
social-behavior → software-programs - Carrying Capacity metaphor
ecology → economics, organizational-behavior - Cascade of Roofs pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Cassandra metaphor
mythology → social-behavior - Casting Is Ninety Percent mental-model
theatrical-directing - Catalysts mental-model
physics - Catch and Store Energy mental-model
- Categories Are Containers metaphor
containers → intellectual-inquiry - Cathedral and Bazaar metaphor
architecture-and-building → software-engineering, organizational-structure - Causal Precedence Is Temporal Precedence metaphor
time-and-temporality → causal-reasoning - Causation Is Commercial Transaction metaphor
economics → causal-reasoning - Causation Is Control Over An Entity Relative To A Location metaphor
governance → causal-reasoning - Causation Is Control Over An Object Relative To A Possessor metaphor
economics → causal-reasoning - Causation Is Control Over Relative Location metaphor
governance → causal-reasoning - Causes And Effects Are Linked Objects metaphor
containers → causal-reasoning - Causes Are Forces metaphor
embodied-experience → causal-reasoning - Cease Dependence on Inspection mental-model
manufacturing - Ceiling Height Variety pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Center of Gravity metaphor
war → competition, leadership-and-management - Cerberus metaphor
mythology → network-security - Chain of Command metaphor
military-command → organizational-behavior - Chain of Responsibility pattern
software-architecture → organizational-behavior, decision-making - Chain of Thought Is Self-Talk metaphor
mental-experience → artificial-intelligence - Change Is Motion metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Change Is Replacement metaphor
manufacturing → event-structure - Change Of State Is Change Of Direction metaphor
journeys → event-structure - Character Is a Wax Seal metaphor
quality-and-craftsmanship → psychology - Character Is Conduct mental-model
theatrical-directing - Checklist Approach mental-model
aviation - Chef de Partie metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior - Chessboard Self metaphor
puzzles-and-games → psychotherapy - Chesterton's Fence mental-model
architecture-and-building - Chimera metaphor
mythology → creative-process, biology - Choice Point mental-model
navigation - Circle of Competence mental-model
geometry - Circuit Breaker pattern
electricity → software-engineering - Circulation Realms pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Clapter metaphor
comedy-craft → communication - Clean Pain vs. Dirty Pain mental-model
- Cleaning As You Go pattern
food-and-cooking → software-programs, organizational-behavior - Cleverness Is Quickness metaphor
movement → intelligence - Cloud metaphor
natural-phenomena → computing - Code Is Compressed Thought metaphor
writing → software-engineering - Code Smell metaphor
embodied-experience → software-programs - Cognitive Defusion mental-model
psychotherapy - Coherent Is Aligned metaphor
embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry - Coherent Is Whole metaphor
embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry - Collateral Damage metaphor
military-history → decision-making - Collect Your Whole Force mental-model
military-history - Come with Clean Hands metaphor
purity → ethics-and-morality - Comedy Is Truth and Pain mental-model
comedy-craft - Coming of Age archetype
life-course → organizational-behavior, software-engineering - Coming to Zero mental-model
food-and-cooking - Common Areas at the Heart pattern
architecture-and-building → organizational-structure - Communication Is Linguistic Communication metaphor
language → communication - Communication Is Sending metaphor
containers → communication - Companion metaphor
food-and-cooking → social-behavior - Comparative Advantage mental-model
- Comparing And Seeking Is Shopping metaphor
economics → decision-making - Comparison of Properties Is Comparison of Physical Properties metaphor
embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry - Comparison of Properties Is Comparison of Possessions metaphor
economics → intellectual-inquiry - Competition Is 1-on-1 Physical Aggression metaphor
war → competition - Competition Is a Race metaphor
journeys → competition - Competition Is Competition for Desired Objects metaphor
economics → competition - Competition Is War metaphor
war → competition - Competitive Exclusion mental-model
ecology - Compliance Is Adherence metaphor
physical-connection → rule-following - Compliance Is Following metaphor
journeys → governance - Compliance Is Tightness metaphor
embodied-experience → governance - Composting metaphor
agriculture → creative-process - Compounding mental-model
- Compute Is a Resource metaphor
economics → artificial-intelligence - Computer Mouse metaphor
animal-behavior → computing - Computer Virus Is Biological Infection metaphor
contagion → network-security - Conceit Is Inflation metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Concentration of Force mental-model
military-command - Conducting Research Is Solving a Puzzle metaphor
puzzles-and-games → intellectual-inquiry - Confirmation Bias mental-model
- Confused Deputy paradigm
authority-and-delegation → agent-security - Connected Buildings pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Connection to the Earth metaphor
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Conscious Is Up; Unconscious Is Down metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Constancy of Purpose mental-model
manufacturing - Constraint Enables Creativity mental-model
visual-arts-practice - Containment metaphor
containers → psychotherapy - Context Window Is Working Memory metaphor
mental-experience → artificial-intelligence - Continuous Flow metaphor
fluid-dynamics → manufacturing - Contrarian Thinking mental-model
- Conway's Law mental-model
- Cookie metaphor
food-and-cooking → computing - Copper-Bottomed metaphor
seafaring - Cornucopia metaphor
mythology → economics, social-behavior - Courage Is Strength metaphor
physical-strength → courage - Creating Is Birthing metaphor
reproduction → creative-process - Creating Is Giving an Object metaphor
economics → creative-process - Creating Is Making metaphor
manufacturing → creative-process - Creating Is Making Visible metaphor
vision → creative-process - Creating Is Moving To A Location metaphor
journeys → creative-process - Creation Is Cultivation metaphor
horticulture → creative-process - Creative Destruction paradigm
destruction → economics - Creative Hopelessness mental-model
psychotherapy - Creative Process Is Construction metaphor
architecture-and-building → creative-process - Creative Process Is Gardening metaphor
horticulture → creative-process - Creative Works Are Food metaphor
food-and-cooking → communication - Critical Mass mental-model
physics - Cron Job metaphor
economics → software-programs - Cross-Pollination metaphor
horticulture → organizational-behavior - Cryonics Is Death Deferral metaphor
science-fiction - Culture as a Control System paradigm
physics → governance - Cut and Run metaphor
seafaring → social-behavior - Cyberspace Is a Place metaphor
spatial-location → computing - Daemon metaphor
mythology → computing - Daemon Is a Background Spirit metaphor
mythology → computing - Damocles' Sword metaphor
mythology → governance - Dangerous Beliefs Are Contagious Diseases metaphor
contagion → mental-experience - Dark Forest metaphor
mythology → social-behavior - Darkness Is a Cover metaphor
containers → vision - Darkness Is a Solid metaphor
physics → vision - Dashboard metaphor
travel → computing - Data Flow Is Fluid Flow paradigm
fluid-dynamics → data-processing - Data Is Fuel metaphor
natural-resources → artificial-intelligence - Data Stream metaphor
fluid-dynamics → computing - Databases Are Warehouses metaphor
logistics → data-processing - Dead Code metaphor
death-and-dying → software-programs - Dead in the Water metaphor
seafaring → event-structure - Dead Man's Switch metaphor
safety-systems → distributed-systems, information-security - Dead Plate metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior - Dead Sea Effect metaphor
hydrology → organizational-behavior - Dead Zone metaphor
ecology → economics - Deadline metaphor
war → time-and-temporality - Death by a Thousand Cuts metaphor
harm → organizational-decline - Death Is a Journey metaphor
travel → death-and-dying - Death Is Departure metaphor
journeys → life-course - Decision Is a Path metaphor
travel → decision-making - Decisive Point metaphor
war → decision-making, leadership-and-management - Decoy Effect mental-model
- Deep Magic metaphor
mythology → software-programs - Deep Reveals metaphor
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Deep Roots Are Not Reached by Frost metaphor
agriculture → resilience - Deep Space Is the Unknown Frontier metaphor
exploration - Defense in Depth metaphor
war → security-analysis - Defense Mechanisms metaphor
war → psychotherapy - Defense-to-Offense Transition pattern
war → competition, organizational-behavior - Degrees of Publicness pattern
architecture-and-building → information-security - Demons on the Boat metaphor
folklore → psychotherapy - Design from Patterns to Details mental-model
agriculture - Desire Is Hunger metaphor
food-and-cooking → mental-experience - Desires Are Forces Between the Desired and the Desirer metaphor
physics → mental-experience - Device Driver metaphor
travel → software-programs - Different Chairs pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Differential Diagnosis metaphor
medicine → decision-making, epistemology - Difficult Subjects Are Adversaries metaphor
war → intellectual-inquiry - Difficulties Are Burdens metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Difficulties Are Containers metaphor
containers → event-structure - Difficulties Are Impediments to Motion metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Difficulty Is Moving metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Difficulty Is Weight metaphor
weight → difficulty - Diminishing Returns mental-model
- Director as Obstetrician metaphor
medicine → theatrical-directing - Disgust Is Nausea metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Disparity Is Change metaphor
event-structure → event-structure - Divide and Conquer mental-model
- DNS Domain metaphor
governance → computing - Do As Much Nothing As Possible metaphor
medicine → decision-making, leadership-and-management - Dogfooding metaphor
animal-husbandry → software-programs - Don't Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch metaphor
agriculture → decision-making, economics - Don't Let the Fox Guard the Henhouse metaphor
agriculture → authority-and-delegation, governance - Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket metaphor
agriculture → economics, decision-making - Double Listening pattern
narrative → psychotherapy - Dovetail metaphor
carpentry → abstract-organization, planning-and-preparation - Dragon Hoard metaphor
mythology → economics - Drinking the Kool-Aid metaphor
social-behavior → collaborative-work - Drive Out Fear mental-model
- Dropping the Anchor metaphor
seafaring → psychotherapy - Duck Typing metaphor
folk-taxonomy → software-programs - Dunbar's Number mental-model
biology - Dunning-Kruger Effect mental-model
psychology - Dying on the Pass metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior, software-engineering - Dyson Sphere Is Megastructure Ambition metaphor
science-fiction → physics - Dystopia Is Social Warning metaphor
science-fiction → governance, social-control - Easter Egg metaphor
puzzles-and-games → software-abstraction - Ecological Arms Race metaphor
ecology → competition, network-security - Ecological Footprint metaphor
ecology → economics - Ecological Niche metaphor
ecology → economics, organizational-behavior - Ecological Resilience metaphor
ecology → organizational-behavior, software-engineering - Ecological Succession metaphor
ecology → organizational-behavior - Economic Moats mental-model
war - Ecosystem metaphor
ecology → economics - Edge Effect metaphor
ecology → organizational-behavior, software-engineering - Effect on Emotional Self Is Contact with Physical Self metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Effects of Humor Are Injuries metaphor
embodied-experience → humor - Eighteen Watch-Out Situations mental-model
- Eighty-Six metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior - Eliminate Numerical Quotas mental-model
measurement - Eliminate Slogans mental-model
- Elysium metaphor
mythology → social-behavior - Emotion Is Motion metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Emotional Intimacy Is Physical Closeness metaphor
embodied-experience → love-and-relationships - Emotional Self Is A Brittle Object metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Emotional Stability Is Balance metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Emotional Stability Is Contact with the Ground metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Emotional Stability Is Maintaining Position metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Emotions Are Entities Within A Person metaphor
containers → mental-experience - Emotions Are Forces metaphor
physics → mental-experience - Emotions Are Locations metaphor
journeys → mental-experience - Emotions Are Weather metaphor
weather → emotion - Emperor's New Clothes metaphor
mythology → social-control - Entrance Transition pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Environment Variable metaphor
embodied-experience → software-programs - Environmental Impingement metaphor
physics → nurturing-and-creation - Equilibration metaphor
physics → education, mental-experience - Escape Route metaphor
fire-safety → decision-making - Euphoric States Are Up metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Even Keel metaphor
seafaring → mental-experience - Event Structure (Location Case) metaphor
journeys → event-structure - Every Scene Is a Chase Scene metaphor
pursuit-and-escape → theatrical-directing - Every Soldier Carries a Marshal's Baton metaphor
military-history → organizational-behavior, leadership-and-management - Everyone Goes Home mental-model
fire-safety - Everything Is a File paradigm
library-and-archive → data-processing - Excalibur metaphor
mythology → social-behavior - Existence Is A Location metaphor
journeys → event-structure - Existence Is An Object metaphor
physical-objects → event-structure - Existence Is Having A Form metaphor
physical-objects → event-structure - Existence Is Life metaphor
life-course → event-structure - Existence Is Visibility metaphor
vision → event-structure - Expo pattern
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior - External Appearance Is A Cover metaphor
containers → embodied-experience - External Conditions Are Climate metaphor
natural-phenomena → event-structure - External Events Affecting Progress Are Forces Affecting metaphor
physics → event-structure - Externalizing the Problem pattern
narrative → psychotherapy - Facade pattern
architecture-and-building → software-engineering, organizational-behavior - Facilitating Environment metaphor
organism → mental-experience, learning-and-development - Facts Are Points metaphor
geometry → intellectual-inquiry - Failure Isolation Is Quarantine metaphor
contagion → software-engineering, systems-thinking - Fallacies of Distributed Computing mental-model
network-communication - Fallow Period metaphor
agriculture → creative-process, organizational-behavior - False in One Thing, False in All paradigm
governance → causal-reasoning - Falsification mental-model
- Family of Entrances pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Fathom metaphor
seafaring → intellectual-inquiry - Faustian Bargain metaphor
mythology → economics - Fear Is Cold metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Fear-Driven Development metaphor
social-behavior → collaborative-work - Feed the Soil, Not the Plant metaphor
agriculture → organizational-behavior - Feedback Loops mental-model
physics - Felt Sense mental-model
- Fermi's Paradox paradigm
probability → decision-making - File Permissions metaphor
governance → data-processing - Filesystem Mount metaphor
tool-use → data-processing - Filesystem Root metaphor
horticulture → data-processing - Filesystem Tree metaphor
horticulture → filesystem - Filtered Light pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Fine-Tuning Is Specialization metaphor
music → artificial-intelligence - Finger Trap metaphor
puzzles-and-games → psychotherapy - Finished Is Up metaphor
embodied-experience → time-and-temporality - Finishing Actions mental-model
food-and-cooking - Fire metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior, software-engineering - Firewall metaphor
architecture-and-building → network-security - First Do No Harm metaphor
medicine → ethics-and-morality, decision-making - First-Mover Advantage mental-model
- First-Principles Thinking mental-model
physics - First-Rate metaphor
seafaring - Five S (5S) pattern
manufacturing → workplace-organization, software-engineering - Five Whys mental-model
manufacturing - Flagship metaphor
seafaring - Flanking Maneuver metaphor
military-history → competition, argumentation - Flash It metaphor
food-and-cooking - Flexible Office Space pattern
architecture-and-building → organizational-structure - Fog of War metaphor
war → decision-making, leadership-and-management - Food Chain metaphor
ecology → organizational-behavior, social-dynamics - Force Is a Substance Contained in Affecting Causes metaphor
fluid-dynamics → causal-reasoning - Force Is a Substance Directed at an Affected Party metaphor
fluid-dynamics → physics - Foreseeable Future Events Are Up (and Ahead) metaphor
embodied-experience → time-and-temporality - Form Follows Function metaphor
architecture-and-building → aesthetics - Form Is Motion metaphor
embodied-experience → geometry - Foundation Model Is a Foundation metaphor
architecture-and-building → artificial-intelligence - Four-Story Limit pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Framework metaphor
carpentry → abstract-organization - Frankenstein archetype
mythology → software-engineering - Frankenstein Is Technology Risk metaphor
science-fiction → technology-risk - Free Rider Problem mental-model
economics - Freelancing mental-model
fire-safety - Friction in War metaphor
war → systems-thinking, leadership-and-management - Front of House / Back of House metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior, software-abstraction - Fruit of the Poisonous Tree metaphor
horticulture → causal-reasoning - Gaining Physical Intimacy (Against Resistance) Is a Competition metaphor
competition → love-and-relationships - Gambler's Fallacy mental-model
probability - Garbage Collection metaphor
sanitation → software-programs - Garden Growing Wild pattern
horticulture → software-abstraction - Gas Town archetype
governance → artificial-intelligence - Gemba mental-model
- Genchi Genbutsu mental-model
- Generation Ship Is Long-Horizon Institution metaphor
science-fiction → governance - Generativity metaphor
biology → social-dynamics, leadership-and-management - Genetic Engineering Is Biological Programming metaphor
computing → biology - Getting Is Eating metaphor
food-and-cooking → event-structure - Gilding the Lily metaphor
craftsmanship → writing, software-engineering - Give Actions, Not Emotions mental-model
theatrical-directing - Give Wide Berth metaphor
seafaring → social-behavior - God Object metaphor
religion → software-programs - Goedel's Incompleteness mental-model
- Going-on-Being metaphor
fluid-dynamics → mental-experience - Golden Hammer metaphor
tool-use → software-programs - Golem metaphor
mythology → rule-following - Good Art Carries High Density of Choice mental-model
visual-arts-practice - Good Enough Mother metaphor
manufacturing → nurturing-and-creation - Good Is Up; Bad Is Down metaphor
embodied-experience → embodied-experience - Good Luck Reinforces Bad Habits mental-model
fire-safety - Good Materials pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Goodhart's Law mental-model
- Gordian Knot metaphor
mythology → social-behavior - Grabbing Attention vs. Rewarding Attention pattern
visual-arts-practice → aesthetics - Gradual Stiffening metaphor
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Grafting metaphor
horticulture → organizational-behavior - Green Wood metaphor
carpentry → quality-and-craftsmanship, learning-and-development - Grok metaphor
science-fiction → software-engineering, learning-and-development - Grok Is Deep Understanding metaphor
science-fiction → intellectual-inquiry, computing - Groundswell metaphor
seafaring → social-behavior - Groupthink mental-model
- Guardrails metaphor
journeys → artificial-intelligence - Guided Participation mental-model
education - Half-Hidden Garden pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Half-Private Office pattern
architecture-and-building → organizational-structure - Halting Problem paradigm
computability-theory → decision-making, software-engineering - Hammer and Nail mental-model
- Hand Over Fist metaphor
seafaring → economics - Hands pattern
food-and-cooking → collaborative-work, software-engineering - Hands as Thoughts metaphor
embodied-experience → psychotherapy - Hanlon's Razor mental-model
tool-use - Hansei mental-model
manufacturing - Happy Is Up; Sad Is Down metaphor
embodied-experience → embodied-experience - Hard Cases Make Bad Law mental-model
governance - Harm Is a Thorn metaphor
horticulture → harm - Harm Is Being in a Harmful Location metaphor
spatial-location → event-structure - Harm Is Causing Functional Objects to Be Nonfunctional metaphor
manufacturing → event-structure - Harm Is Having a Harmful Possession metaphor
economics → event-structure - Harm Is Lacking a Needed Possession metaphor
economics → event-structure - Harm Is Physical Injury metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Harm Is Preventing Forward Motion Toward a Goal metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Harming Is Lowering metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Hat on a Hat metaphor
clothing → creative-process - Having Control Is Up; Being Subject To Control Is Down metaphor
embodied-experience → social-behavior - Hawthorne Effect mental-model
- He Who Acts Through Another Acts Himself paradigm
governance - Health Is Up; Sickness Is Down metaphor
embodied-experience → embodied-experience - Hear the Other Side mental-model
governance - Heard pattern
food-and-cooking → communication - Heartwood and Sapwood metaphor
carpentry → organizational-behavior - Hedging Your Bets metaphor
gambling → risk-and-uncertainty, decision-making - Heijunka paradigm
manufacturing → organizational-behavior - Heisenbug metaphor
physics → software-programs - Help Is Support metaphor
embodied-experience → social-behavior - Herculean Task metaphor
mythology → event-structure - Hero's Journey archetype
narrative-and-storytelling → professional-development, organizational-behavior - Hierarchy of Open Space pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - High and Dry metaphor
seafaring → social-behavior - Hilbert's Hotel mental-model
set-theory - Hit the Nail on the Head metaphor
carpentry → argumentation, problem-solving - Hive Mind Is Collective Intelligence metaphor
science-fiction → social-behavior, artificial-intelligence - Hofstadter's Law mental-model
self-reference - Holding Environment metaphor
containers → mental-experience, organizational-behavior - Holding Space metaphor
containers → psychotherapy - Holodeck Is Total Simulation metaphor
science-fiction → computing, education - Holy Grail metaphor
mythology → journeys, intellectual-inquiry - Homeostasis mental-model
- Honeybee Is Ideal Scientist archetype
animal-behavior → intellectual-inquiry - Hoofbeats, Think Horses mental-model
medicine - Hope Is a Beneficial Possession metaphor
economics → mental-experience - Hope Is a Child metaphor
life-course → mental-experience - Hope Is Light metaphor
vision → mental-experience - Hoshin Kanri paradigm
manufacturing → organizational-behavior - Hydra metaphor
mythology - Hydra Code metaphor
mythology → software-programs - Hyrum's Law mental-model
contracts-and-law - Icarus metaphor
mythology - Ideas Are Children metaphor
life-course → intellectual-inquiry - Ideas Are Commodities metaphor
economics → intellectual-inquiry - Ideas Are Cutting Instruments metaphor
manufacturing → intellectual-inquiry - Ideas Are Fashions metaphor
social-behavior → intellectual-inquiry - Ideas Are Food metaphor
food-and-cooking → intellectual-inquiry - Ideas Are Light-Sources metaphor
vision → intellectual-inquiry - Ideas Are Locations metaphor
journeys → intellectual-inquiry - Ideas Are Money metaphor
economics → intellectual-inquiry - Ideas Are Objects metaphor
embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry - Ideas Are People metaphor
social-roles → intellectual-inquiry - Ideas Are Perceptions metaphor
embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry - Ideas Are Plants metaphor
horticulture → intellectual-inquiry - Ideas Are Products metaphor
manufacturing → intellectual-inquiry - Ideas Are Resources metaphor
economics → intellectual-inquiry - Ideas Are Writing metaphor
writing → intellectual-inquiry - Identifiable Neighborhood pattern
architecture-and-building → organizational-structure - Identity Crisis metaphor
medicine → mental-experience, social-dynamics - Idols of the Cave mental-model
architecture-and-building - Idols of the Marketplace mental-model
- Idols of the Theatre metaphor
performance → intellectual-inquiry - Idols of the Tribe mental-model
religion - If You Don't Look, You Won't Find metaphor
medicine → decision-making - Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse paradigm
governance → ethics-and-morality - Illness Is an Invader metaphor
war → medicine - Importance Is Size metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Impostor Syndrome metaphor
social-presentation → self-assessment, professional-identity - Impressions Are Visitors at the Door metaphor
household-management → perception-and-cognition - In Art, Remedy Mistakes by Taking Advantage of Them mental-model
visual-arts-practice - In the Doldrums metaphor
seafaring → mental-experience - In the Offing metaphor
seafaring → event-structure - In the Weeds metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior - Incentive-Caused Bias mental-model
- Incident Command System paradigm
fire-safety → organizational-behavior - Incompleteness paradigm
mathematical-logic → mathematical-modeling - Indicator Species metaphor
ecology → systems-thinking, organizational-behavior - Infinite Monkey Theorem metaphor
probability → reasoning-about-infinity - Inflation Is an Entity metaphor
embodied-experience → economics - Influence Is Physical Force metaphor
physics → organizational-behavior - Information Asymmetry mental-model
- Information Overload metaphor
logistics → decision-making, knowledge-management - Inner Child metaphor
family-and-kinship → psychotherapy - Inspect and Correct mental-model
food-and-cooking - Integrate Rather Than Segregate mental-model
agriculture - Intelligence Is a Light Source metaphor
vision → mental-experience - Intense Emotions Are Heat metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Interaction Between Progress and External Events Affecting metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Interior Lines pattern
military-history → competition - Internal Working Model metaphor
manufacturing → mental-experience - Internalization metaphor
containers → mental-experience - Interpersonal Harmony Is Musical Harmony metaphor
music → social-behavior - Intimacy Gradient metaphor
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Intimacy Is Closeness metaphor
embodied-experience → love-and-relationships - Intoxication Is Becoming Electrified metaphor
electricity → mental-experience - Intoxication Is Getting A Burden metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Intoxication Is Getting Destroyed metaphor
destruction → mental-experience - Intuition Precedes Analysis mental-model
visual-arts-practice - Invasive Species metaphor
ecology → social-dynamics, economics - Inversion mental-model
geometry - Investments Are Containers For Money metaphor
containers → economics - Jailbreaking metaphor
containers → artificial-intelligence - Jenga Code metaphor
puzzles-and-games → software-programs - Jevons Paradox mental-model
economics - Jidoka paradigm
manufacturing → organizational-behavior - Jig metaphor
carpentry → software-programs - Jury-Rigged metaphor
seafaring - Just Tell the Story mental-model
theatrical-directing - Just-in-Time paradigm
manufacturing → organizational-behavior - Kaikaku mental-model
manufacturing - Kaizen paradigm
manufacturing → organizational-behavior - Kanban paradigm
manufacturing → organizational-behavior - Karma metaphor
mythology → social-behavior - Kata paradigm
martial-arts → organizational-behavior - Keelhauled metaphor
seafaring → social-behavior - Kernel metaphor
horticulture → computing - Kernighan's Law mental-model
intellectual-inquiry - Keystone Species metaphor
ecology → organizational-behavior, software-programs - Kill Your Darlings mental-model
- Killing Kittens metaphor
comedy-craft → creative-editing, writing - KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) mental-model
- Knock-Down Joint metaphor
carpentry → modularity, software-architecture - Knotty Problem metaphor
carpentry → difficulty, problem-solving - Know the Ropes metaphor
seafaring → intellectual-inquiry - Know Your Enemy, Know Yourself mental-model
military-history - Knowing Is Seeing metaphor
vision → intellectual-inquiry - Knowing When Not to Operate metaphor
medicine → decision-making - Knowledge Is a Landscape metaphor
cartography → epistemology, research - Knowledge of Past Events Is an External Event Exerting Force On metaphor
physics → mental-experience - Koan metaphor
mythology → hidden-knowledge - Labor Is a Resource metaphor
economics → collaborative-work - Labyrinth metaphor
mythology → governance - Ladder metaphor
tool-use → social-hierarchy, career, abstraction - Lampshading pattern
comedy-craft → narrative - Latticework of Mental Models mental-model
architecture-and-building - Laughter Is a Substance metaphor
fluid-dynamics → humor - Lava Flow metaphor
natural-phenomena → software-programs - Law of Leaky Abstractions mental-model
containers - Laying Pipe metaphor
plumbing → narrative-and-storytelling - LCES mental-model
fire-safety - Leaves on a Stream metaphor
natural-phenomena → psychotherapy - Leeway metaphor
seafaring - Less Is More metaphor
architecture-and-building → aesthetics - Let Justice Be Done Though the Heavens Fall paradigm
ethics-and-morality - Let the Buyer Beware mental-model
economics - Let the Master Answer paradigm
governance - Let the Tool Do the Work mental-model
carpentry - Lethal Trifecta paradigm
fire-safety → agent-security - Letter vs. Spirit of the Law metaphor
language → governance - Leverage mental-model
physics - Leverage Point mental-model
physics - Life Is a Ball Game metaphor
athletics-and-combat → ethics-and-morality - Life Is a Banquet metaphor
banqueting → philosophy, ethics-and-morality - Life Is a Container metaphor
containers → life-course - Life Is a Gambling Game metaphor
gambling → life-course - Life Is a Game of Dice metaphor
dice-and-games → ethics-and-morality - Life Is a Journey metaphor
journeys → life-course - Life Is a Performance metaphor
performance → life-course - Life Is a Story metaphor
narrative → life-course - Light Is A Fluid metaphor
fluid-dynamics → natural-phenomena - Light Is A Line metaphor
geometry → natural-phenomena - Light on Two Sides metaphor
architecture-and-building → creative-process - Lightning Rod Joke pattern
comedy-craft → creative-review, negotiation - Linear Scales Are Paths metaphor
journeys → measurement - Load-Bearing Pun metaphor
architecture-and-building → comedy-craft - Logic Is Gravity metaphor
physics → intellectual-inquiry - Logical Relations Are Causal Relations metaphor
causal-reasoning → intellectual-inquiry - Lollapalooza Effect mental-model
physics - Long-Term Purposeful Activity Is a Journey metaphor
journeys → event-structure - Long-Term Purposeful Change Is a Journey metaphor
journeys → event-structure - Looking-Glass Self metaphor
optics-and-reflection → social-identity - Loose Cannon metaphor
seafaring → social-behavior - Love Is a Collaborative Work of Art metaphor
creative-process → love-and-relationships - Love Is A Journey metaphor
journeys → love-and-relationships - Love Is a Patient metaphor
medicine → love-and-relationships - Love Is a Physical Force metaphor
embodied-experience → love-and-relationships - Love Is a Unity metaphor
embodied-experience → love-and-relationships - Love Is Madness metaphor
embodied-experience → love-and-relationships - Love Is Magic metaphor
magic → love-and-relationships - Love Is War metaphor
war → love-and-relationships - Loved One Is A Possession metaphor
economics → love-and-relationships - Lust Is Heat metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Lustful Person Is an Activated Machine metaphor
manufacturing → mental-experience - Lustful Person Is an Animal metaphor
animal-behavior → mental-experience - Machines Are People metaphor
social-roles → manufacturing - Magic Number metaphor
mythology → software-programs - Main Entrance metaphor
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Main Gateways pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Mainstay metaphor
seafaring - Make Hay While the Sun Shines metaphor
agriculture → decision-making, economics - Making First Moves mental-model
food-and-cooking - Man with a Hammer mental-model
tool-use - Manure Is the Farmer's Gold metaphor
agriculture → evaluation-and-judgment - Map-Territory Problem metaphor
cartography → mathematical-modeling, software-abstraction - Margin of Safety mental-model
architecture-and-building - Master and Apprentices pattern
architecture-and-building → education - Mathematician Is a Machine for Turning Coffee into Theorems metaphor
manufacturing → mathematical-practice - Mayday mental-model
fire-safety - Means of Change Is Path over Which Motion Occurs metaphor
journeys → event-structure - Measure Twice, Cut Once mental-model
carpentry - Meeze Point mental-model
food-and-cooking - Memory Heap metaphor
embodied-experience → memory-management - Memory Leak metaphor
fluid-dynamics → memory-management - Memory Stack metaphor
embodied-experience → memory-management - Mental Accounting metaphor
economics → mental-experience - Mental Health Is Physical Health metaphor
medicine → mental-experience - Mentat Is Human Computer metaphor
science-fiction → computing, intelligence - Mentor metaphor
mythology → education, social-roles - Messages Are Physical Mail metaphor
logistics → network-communication - Metaverse Is Shared Virtual World metaphor
science-fiction → computing, social-behavior - Microservices Are Biological Cells metaphor
biology → software-engineering - Microservices Are City Districts metaphor
governance → software-engineering - Midas Touch metaphor
mythology → economics - Middle-Out Compression metaphor
human-sexuality → data-processing - Mind as a Radio metaphor
broadcasting → psychotherapy - Mirror Role of Mother metaphor
vision → mental-experience, organizational-behavior - Mirroring metaphor
optics-and-reflection → psychotherapy - Mise en Place paradigm
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior, productivity - Model Outputs Are Prophecies metaphor
religion → artificial-intelligence - Money Is A Liquid metaphor
fluid-dynamics → economics - Monkey-Patching metaphor
social-behavior → software-programs - Monoculture metaphor
ecology → organizational-behavior, software-engineering - Monoculture Risk mental-model
agriculture - Monotropy mental-model
biology - Monty Hall Problem mental-model
probability - Moral Accounting metaphor
economics → ethics-and-morality - Moral Is to Physical as Three Is to One metaphor
military-history → organizational-behavior, leadership-and-management - Morality Is Accounting metaphor
economics → ethics-and-morality - Morality Is Cleanliness metaphor
cleanliness → ethics-and-morality - Morality Is Purity metaphor
purity → ethics-and-morality - Morality Is Straightness metaphor
geometry → ethics-and-morality - Morality Is War metaphor
war → ethics-and-morality - Mordor metaphor
mythology → social-control - More Is Up; Less Is Down metaphor
embodied-experience → embodied-experience - More Knowledgeable Other mental-model
social-roles - Mortise and Tenon metaphor
carpentry → abstract-organization - Mosaic of Subcultures pattern
architecture-and-building → organizational-structure, social-dynamics - Mr. Market mental-model
social-roles - Muda, Mura, Muri mental-model
manufacturing - Murphy's Law mental-model
- Muscle metaphor
animal-behavior → embodied-experience - Mutualism mental-model
ecology - Mutualism as Metaphor metaphor
ecology → organizational-behavior, economics - Nail It metaphor
carpentry → quality-and-craftsmanship - Narcissism metaphor
mythology → mental-experience, social-behavior - Nation Is a Family metaphor
social-roles → governance - Nation Is a Person metaphor
social-roles → governance - Natural Capital paradigm
ecology → economics - Natural Doors and Windows pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Natural Selection mental-model
natural-selection - Necessary Prerequisite for Change Is Source of Moving Entity metaphor
journeys → event-structure - Necessity Knows No Law mental-model
governance - Necromancy metaphor
mythology → software-programs - Needle in a Haystack metaphor
agriculture → search-and-discovery - Negative Space metaphor
visual-composition → aesthetics - Negative Space Is as Important as Positive Space pattern
visual-arts-practice → aesthetics, creative-process - Nemawashi metaphor
horticulture → organizational-behavior - Nemesis metaphor
mythology → social-behavior - Network Effects mental-model
network-communication - Network of Learning pattern
architecture-and-building → education - Network Port metaphor
travel → network-communication - Network Socket metaphor
tool-use → network-communication - Neural Network Is a Brain metaphor
biology → artificial-intelligence - Never Do What the Enemy Wishes mental-model
- Never Let the Sun Set on Undrained Pus metaphor
medicine → decision-making - Newspeak Is Thought Control metaphor
science-fiction → language, social-control - Niche Specialization mental-model
natural-selection - Ninety-Nine Percent Done mental-model
mathematical-estimation - NIOSH 5 mental-model
fire-safety - No Free Lunch Theorem mental-model
mathematical-optimization - No One Gives What They Do Not Have mental-model
governance - No One Is Bound to the Impossible paradigm
ethics-and-morality - No One Profits from Their Own Wrong mental-model
governance - No One Should Judge Their Own Case mental-model
governance - Nonlinearity mental-model
physics - Normalization of Deviance mental-model
risk-and-uncertainty - Null Pointer metaphor
embodied-experience → computing - Obeya mental-model
manufacturing - Object Permanence mental-model
physics - Obligations Are Containers metaphor
containers → ethics-and-morality - Obligations Are Forces metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Obligations Are Possessions metaphor
economics → ethics-and-morality - Observe and Interact mental-model
- Obtain a Yield mental-model
- Occam's Razor mental-model
tool-use - Odyssey metaphor
mythology → journeys - Offers and Blocks metaphor
improvisation → collaborative-work - Old Growth vs. Clear-Cut metaphor
ecology → organizational-behavior - On the Fly metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior - OODA Loop mental-model
military-command - Open Stairs pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Opportunities Are Objects metaphor
physical-objects → event-structure - Opportunities Are Open Paths metaphor
journeys → event-structure - Opportunity Cost mental-model
- Organization Is Physical Structure metaphor
architecture-and-building → abstract-organization - Organizational Memory Is Archaeological Layers metaphor
geology → organizational-behavior - Ornament pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Orphan Process metaphor
social-roles → software-programs - Ouroboros archetype
mythology → systems-thinking - Over a Barrel metaphor
seafaring → social-behavior - Oxbow Lake metaphor
geology → creative-process - Palantir metaphor
mythology → surveillance - Panarchy paradigm
ecology → systems-thinking, organizational-behavior - Pandemonium metaphor
mythology → social-behavior - Pandora's Box metaphor
mythology → social-behavior, governance - Pandora's Box metaphor
mythology → technology-risk, ethics-and-morality - Panning for Gold metaphor
mining → evaluation-and-judgment, decision-making - Paperclip Maximizer Is Alignment Failure mental-model
science-fiction - Parasitic Architecture metaphor
architecture-and-building → software-engineering, organizational-behavior - Parasitism as Metaphor metaphor
ecology → social-dynamics, economics - Parkinson's Law mental-model
physics - Passengers on the Bus metaphor
transportation → psychotherapy - Patch metaphor
textiles → software-programs - Paths and Goals pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Patina metaphor
materials → aesthetics, software-engineering - Pattern Language as Shared Vocabulary paradigm
social-behavior → collaborative-work - PDCA Cycle paradigm
manufacturing → organizational-behavior - Pendulation metaphor
physics → psychotherapy - People Are Batteries metaphor
electricity → embodied-experience - People Are Machines metaphor
manufacturing → social-behavior - People Are Plants metaphor
horticulture → life-course - Perception Is Reception metaphor
physical-objects → embodied-experience - Perception Is Shape Recognition metaphor
geometry → vision - Permission Delegation Is Genetic Inheritance metaphor
reproduction → software-engineering - Permissions Are Keys metaphor
physical-security → access-control - Personality Is Material metaphor
materials → mental-experience - Peter Principle mental-model
organizational-behavior - Philosophy Is Medicine metaphor
medicine → philosophy - Phoenix metaphor
mythology → event-structure - Piecemeal Growth metaphor
architecture-and-building → software-engineering - Pied Piper archetype
mythology - Pioneer Species metaphor
ecology → economics, organizational-behavior - Pipeline metaphor
fluid-dynamics → systems-performance - Plain Sailing metaphor
seafaring → event-structure - Plane It Smooth metaphor
carpentry → quality-and-craftsmanship - Planning Fallacy mental-model
- Planning Is Prime mental-model
food-and-cooking - Platform metaphor
architecture-and-building → computing - Pod People Are Conformist Replacement metaphor
science-fiction → social-behavior, social-control - Poison Pill metaphor
toxicology → security-analysis - Poka-Yoke paradigm
manufacturing → organizational-behavior - Polished metaphor
carpentry → quality-and-craftsmanship - Pollinator as Metaphor metaphor
ecology → organizational-behavior - Pools of Light pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Positive Outdoor Space pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Possessing Is Holding metaphor
embodied-experience → economics - Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Law metaphor
governance → social-behavior - Postel's Law mental-model
diplomacy - Potential Space metaphor
spatial-location → mental-experience - Power Laws mental-model
probability - Praise the Ripe Field, Not the Green Corn metaphor
agriculture → evaluation-and-judgment - Predator-Prey mental-model
ecology - Premeditatio Malorum mental-model
philosophy - Prep metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior - Presenting Problem metaphor
theater-and-performance → psychotherapy - Pride of Workmanship mental-model
manufacturing - Primary Maternal Preoccupation mental-model
medicine - Prime Directive Is Non-Interference metaphor
science-fiction → governance, ethics-and-morality - Principal-Agent Problem mental-model
- Prisoner's Dilemma paradigm
game-theory → cooperation-and-trust - Problem Is a Constructed Object metaphor
architecture-and-building → causal-reasoning - Problem Is a Tangle metaphor
embodied-experience → causal-reasoning - Problem Is A Target metaphor
target-practice → causal-reasoning - Problems Are Puzzles metaphor
puzzles-and-games → intellectual-inquiry - Process Fork metaphor
journeys → software-programs - Process Kill metaphor
embodied-experience → software-programs - Process Parent-Child metaphor
social-roles → software-programs - Process Sleep metaphor
embodied-experience → software-programs - Process Thread metaphor
manufacturing → computing - Process Trap metaphor
embodied-experience → computing - Procrustean Bed metaphor
mythology → social-control - Produce No Waste mental-model
agriculture - Production Data Is Food metaphor
food-and-cooking → artificial-intelligence - Prognosis as Forecast metaphor
medicine → decision-making, economics - Program Failure Is Bodily Failure metaphor
embodied-experience → software-programs - Prometheus archetype
mythology - Prompt Engineering Is Programming metaphor
software-engineering → artificial-intelligence - Prompt Injection metaphor
medicine → agent-security - Proof by Construction paradigm
mathematical-proof → software-engineering, problem-solving - Proof by Contradiction paradigm
mathematical-proof → argumentation - Proof by Exhaustion metaphor
mathematical-practice → problem-solving, software-engineering - Proof by Handwaving metaphor
mathematical-proof → argumentation - Proof by Intimidation mental-model
mathematical-proof - Properties Are Contents metaphor
containers → event-structure - Properties Are Physical Properties metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Properties Are Possessions metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Prosperity Is Plant Growth metaphor
horticulture → prosperity - Prototype mental-model
manufacturing - Proximity Maintenance mental-model
spatial-location - Pruning for Growth metaphor
horticulture → organizational-behavior - Psychohistory Is Predictive Social Science mental-model
- Psychological Flexibility metaphor
materials → psychotherapy - Psychological Forces Are Physical Forces metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Psychological Safety mental-model
psychology - Psychological States Are Warfare metaphor
war → mental-experience - Purposes Are Desired Objects metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Purposes Are Destinations metaphor
journeys → event-structure - Put Out to Pasture metaphor
agriculture → organizational-behavior - Pyrrhic Victory metaphor
war → economics - Quicksand metaphor
geology → psychotherapy - Quiet Backs pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction, organizational-structure - Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes mental-model
governance - Race Condition metaphor
competition → software-programs - Ragnarok metaphor
mythology → destruction, event-structure - Ralph Wiggum Loop archetype
social-behavior → artificial-intelligence - Raptor Pit metaphor
animal-behavior → collaborative-work - Rational Is Up; Emotional Is Down metaphor
embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry - Re-authoring pattern
narrative → psychotherapy - Read the Grain metaphor
carpentry → materials - Receiving Serious Thought Is Being On The Mind metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - Reciprocity mental-model
economics - Red Herring metaphor
pursuit-and-escape → argumentation, detective-fiction - Red Pill Is Awakening metaphor
science-fiction → hidden-knowledge - Red Queen Effect mental-model
natural-selection - Red Tape metaphor
materials → governance - Redundancy mental-model
architecture-and-building - Regime Shift metaphor
ecology → systems-thinking - Regression to the Mean mental-model
probability - Rehab pattern
fire-safety - Rehearsal Is Not Performance metaphor
theatrical-directing → learning-and-development, software-engineering - Relationship Is Kinship metaphor
social-roles → social-behavior - Relationships Are Enclosures metaphor
containers → love-and-relationships - Replicant Is Artificial Person metaphor
science-fiction → artificial-intelligence, ethics-and-morality - Research Is Jumping in the Dark metaphor
exploration → artificial-intelligence - Reserves and Commitment mental-model
military-history - Resilience mental-model
resilience - Responsibilities Are Possessions metaphor
economics → social-roles - Risk a Lot to Save a Lot mental-model
- Risk Is a Triangle paradigm
fire-safety → combinatorial-risk - Robot Is Artificial Worker metaphor
science-fiction → manufacturing, artificial-intelligence - Roles Are Theatrical Costumes metaphor
performance → access-control - Rough Around the Edges metaphor
carpentry → quality-and-craftsmanship - Round Table metaphor
mythology → governance - Rubber Duck Debugging metaphor
communication → software-programs - Rubber Duck Solution pattern
comedy-craft → problem-solving - Rumpelstiltskin metaphor
mythology → hidden-knowledge - Running Out of Steam metaphor
physics → embodied-experience - Rupture and Repair mental-model
psychotherapy - Russell's Paradox paradigm
set-theory - Sacred Sites pattern
architecture-and-building → organizational-structure - Safe Haven metaphor
seafaring → nurturing-and-creation - Safety Zone mental-model
fire-safety - Sailing Close to the Wind metaphor
seafaring → ethics-and-morality - Salary metaphor
materials → economics - Sandbox metaphor
playground → software-programs - Scaffolding metaphor
architecture-and-building → education, software-programs - Scaffolding in Therapy metaphor
architecture-and-building → psychotherapy - Scale Economies mental-model
physics - Scaling Is Dilution metaphor
fluid-dynamics → organizational-behavior - Scapegoat archetype
religion → social-dynamics, organizational-behavior - Scattered Work pattern
architecture-and-building → organizational-structure - Scenario Analysis mental-model
war - Schema metaphor
architecture-and-building → mental-experience, software-programs - Scorched Earth metaphor
military-history → competition - Scuttlebutt metaphor
seafaring → communication - Scylla and Charybdis metaphor
mythology → decision-making - Seasoning metaphor
carpentry → experience, professional-development - Second Opinion metaphor
medicine → decision-making - Second-Order Thinking mental-model
physics - Second-System Effect mental-model
software-engineering - Secret Place pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Secure Base metaphor
exploration → nurturing-and-creation - Security Is an Immune System metaphor
biology → security-analysis - Security Violations Are Trespassing metaphor
physical-security → network-security - See First, Name Later metaphor
visual-arts-practice → perception-and-cognition - See One, Do One, Teach One pattern
medicine → education - Seed and Soil metaphor
ecology → medicine - Seeing Is Touching metaphor
embodied-experience → vision - Seeing Is Touching, Eyes Are Limbs metaphor
embodied-experience → vision - Self-Initiated Change Of State Is Self-Propelled Motion metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - Separate the Wheat from the Chaff metaphor
agriculture → evaluation-and-judgment, decision-making - Separation Anxiety mental-model
natural-selection - Servant Leadership paradigm
leadership-and-management - Services Are Autonomous Workers metaphor
organizational-structure → software-engineering - Sexuality Is An Offensive Weapon metaphor
war → love-and-relationships - Shadow Work metaphor
light-and-darkness → psychotherapy - Shapes Are Containers metaphor
containers → geometry - Shapeshifter archetype
mythology - Sharpening the Saw metaphor
tool-use → professional-development, planning-and-preparation - Shell metaphor
horticulture → computing - Sheltering Roof pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Shim metaphor
carpentry → software-programs - Shirky Principle mental-model
organizational-behavior - Shit Sandwich pattern
comedy-craft → feedback-delivery, communication - Shokunin paradigm
carpentry → quality-and-craftsmanship - Short Passages pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Shot across the Bow metaphor
seafaring → communication - Shotgun Debugging metaphor
war → software-programs - Show, Don't Tell paradigm
narrative-and-storytelling - Showing True Colors metaphor
seafaring → social-behavior - Shut Up and Calculate paradigm
mathematical-practice → epistemology - Side Effects metaphor
medicine → decision-making, software-engineering - Signal to Noise metaphor
broadcasting → communication, data-processing - Significant Is Big metaphor
embodied-experience → social-behavior - Silence Gives Consent paradigm
social-behavior - Silo metaphor
agriculture → abstract-organization - Silver Bullet metaphor
mythology → software-programs - Similarity Is Closeness metaphor
embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry - Simpson's Paradox mental-model
statistics - Single Point of Failure mental-model
- Singularity Is Technological Transcendence metaphor
science-fiction → artificial-intelligence - Siren archetype
mythology → decision-making, economics - Siren Song metaphor
mythology → decision-making - Sisyphean Task metaphor
mythology → event-structure - Site Repair pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Sitting Circle pattern
architecture-and-building → organizational-structure - Size-Up mental-model
fire-safety - Skunkworks metaphor
military-command → collaborative-work - Sky and Weather metaphor
weather → psychotherapy, emotion - Skynet Is AI Apocalypse metaphor
science-fiction → artificial-intelligence, technology-risk - Slippery Slope metaphor
spatial-motion → argumentation - Slowing Down to Speed Up mental-model
- Small Panes metaphor
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Small Services Without Red Tape pattern
architecture-and-building → organizational-structure, software-abstraction - Small Work Groups pattern
architecture-and-building → organizational-structure - Social Accounting metaphor
economics → social-behavior - Social Conflict Is War metaphor
war → social-behavior - Social Proof mental-model
natural-selection - Society Is a Body metaphor
organism → social-roles - Software Development Is a Bazaar metaphor
marketplace → software-engineering - Software Development Is Cathedral Building metaphor
architecture-and-building → software-engineering - Software Habitability metaphor
architecture-and-building → software-engineering - Software Peter Principle metaphor
organizational-behavior → software-programs - Software Rot metaphor
embodied-experience → software-programs - Something Roughly in the Middle pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction, organizational-behavior - Sorcerer's Apprentice metaphor
mythology → social-control - Source and Sink Analysis paradigm
fluid-dynamics → security-analysis - Sous Chef metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior - Sow Wild Oats metaphor
agriculture → life-course, social-behavior - Sowing Seeds metaphor
agriculture → planning-and-preparation - Space Colonization Is Business Expansion metaphor
colonization - Spaghetti Code metaphor
food-and-cooking → software-programs - Spam metaphor
food-and-cooking → computing - Spherical Cow metaphor
mathematical-modeling → problem-solving, scientific-method - Sphinx Riddle metaphor
mythology → intellectual-inquiry - Spice Is Scarce Enabling Resource metaphor
science-fiction → economics, natural-resources - Spike metaphor
exploration → software-engineering - Stacking Functions pattern
agriculture → systems-thinking, software-engineering - Stages of Development metaphor
journeys → education, organizational-behavior - Staging Environment metaphor
theater-and-performance → software-engineering - Staircase as a Stage pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Stakeholder metaphor
gambling → governance - Standardized Work mental-model
manufacturing - States Are Locations metaphor
journeys → event-structure - States Are Shapes metaphor
geometry → event-structure - Status Is Up; Lack Of Status Is Down metaphor
embodied-experience → social-roles - Status Transactions metaphor
economics → social-dynamics, organizational-behavior - Stdin, Stdout, Stderr metaphor
fluid-dynamics → data-processing - Stock metaphor
materials → economics - Stone Soup metaphor
folklore → collaborative-work - Strange Loop mental-model
self-reference - Strangler Fig pattern
ecology → software-programs - Strategic Retreat metaphor
military-history → competition - Straw That Broke the Camel's Back metaphor
weight → systems-thinking - Street Windows pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Stretch It metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior - Striking While the Iron Is Hot metaphor
craftsmanship → decision-making, planning-and-preparation - Strong Emotion Is Blinding metaphor
vision → mental-experience - Strong Emotions Are Madness metaphor
madness → mental-experience - Structure Follows Social Spaces pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Struggle Switch metaphor
tool-use → psychotherapy - Subjects Are Areas metaphor
spatial-location → intellectual-inquiry - Sugar-Coating metaphor
food-and-cooking → communication - Sunk Cost Fallacy mental-model
- Supply Chain Attack metaphor
logistics → security-analysis - Supreme Art Is to Subdue Without Fighting mental-model
military-history - Surgical Precision metaphor
medicine → decision-making, war - Survival of the Fittest paradigm
natural-selection → competition - Switching Costs mental-model
physics - Symbiosis mental-model
ecology - Symbiosis As Metaphor metaphor
ecology → organizational-behavior - Symlink metaphor
physical-connection → filesystem - Sympatheia mental-model
philosophy - System Administration Is Feudal Lordship metaphor
governance → software-engineering - System of Profound Knowledge paradigm
manufacturing → organizational-behavior - System Resilience vs. Fragility mental-model
architecture-and-building - T-Shaped People metaphor
geometry → organizational-behavior - Take the Wind out of Someone's Sails metaphor
seafaring → competition - Take Your Own Pulse metaphor
medicine → decision-making, leadership-and-management - Taken Aback metaphor
seafaring → mental-experience - Takt Time mental-model
- Talk to the Character, Not the Actor mental-model
theatrical-directing - Tantalus metaphor
mythology → mental-experience - Tapestry of Light and Dark pattern
architecture-and-building → software-engineering - TCP Handshake metaphor
social-behavior → computing - Technical Bankruptcy metaphor
economics → software-programs - Technical Debt metaphor
economics → software-programs - Technical Decisions Are Judicial Rulings metaphor
governance → software-engineering - Technical Decisions Are Territory metaphor
governance → decision-making - Technology Is a Dark Mirror metaphor
vision - Temperature Is Creativity metaphor
physics → artificial-intelligence - Ten Standard Fire Orders mental-model
fire-safety - Terraforming Is Planetary Engineering metaphor
science-fiction → colonization - Terroir mental-model
agriculture - Tesler's Law mental-model
physics - The Absent but Implicit pattern
narrative → psychotherapy - The Abstract Factory Pattern archetype
manufacturing → object-oriented-design - The Adapter Pattern archetype
hardware-compatibility → object-oriented-design - The Anima / Animus archetype
mythology → creative-tension - The Ant Is the Pure Empiricist archetype
animal-behavior → intellectual-inquiry - The Archer metaphor
archery → philosophy, ethics-and-morality - The Body Is a Container for the Self metaphor
containers → embodied-experience - The Body Keeps the Score metaphor
accounting → psychotherapy - The Borg Is Assimilation metaphor
science-fiction → social-behavior, computing - The Bridge Pattern pattern
civil-engineering → object-oriented-design - The Builder Pattern archetype
architecture-and-building → object-oriented-design - The Chain of Responsibility Pattern archetype
military-command → object-oriented-design - The Chosen One archetype
mythology → governance, social-roles - The Command Pattern archetype
military-command → object-oriented-design - The Commons archetype
animal-husbandry → shared-resources - The Composite Pattern archetype
architecture-and-building → object-oriented-design - The Conduit Metaphor metaphor
embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry - The Cure Is Worse Than the Disease metaphor
medicine → decision-making - The Decorator Pattern archetype
architecture-and-building → object-oriented-design - The Divine Child archetype
mythology → potential-and-emergence - The Dog Tied to the Cart metaphor
animal-husbandry → philosophy, ethics-and-morality - The Drunkard's Walk metaphor
probability - The Duty Is to the Text mental-model
theatrical-directing - The Ensemble mental-model
theatrical-directing - The Event Structure Metaphorical System metaphor
embodied-experience → event-structure - The Exception Proves the Rule metaphor
governance → causal-reasoning - The Facade Pattern archetype
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - The Factory Pattern archetype
manufacturing → object-oriented-design - The Flow Through Rooms pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - The Flyweight Pattern pattern
competition → object-oriented-design - The Gateway Pattern archetype
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - The Great Chain of Being archetype
ontological-hierarchy → social-roles - The Great Mother archetype
mythology → nurturing-and-creation - The Helmsman metaphor
navigation → philosophy, ethics-and-morality - The Hero archetype
mythology → social-roles - The Internet Is a Mine metaphor
natural-resources → artificial-intelligence - The Interpreter Pattern archetype
social-roles → object-oriented-design - The Iterator Pattern metaphor
travel → object-oriented-design - The Jackpot Is Slow Apocalypse metaphor
science-fiction → event-structure - The Law Does Not Concern Itself with Trifles mental-model
governance - The Law Is Harsh but It Is the Law paradigm
ethics-and-morality - The Line metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior - The Magic If mental-model
theatrical-directing - The Maiden archetype
mythology → potential-and-emergence - The Map Is Not the Territory mental-model
cartography - The Master's Eye Is the Best Fertilizer mental-model
agriculture - The Matrix Is Hidden Reality metaphor
science-fiction → hidden-knowledge, social-control - The Mediator Pattern archetype
mediation → object-oriented-design - The Memento Pattern archetype
social-roles → object-oriented-design - The Mind Is a Body metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - The Mind Is A Brittle Object metaphor
embodied-experience → mental-experience - The Mind Is a Jar of Water metaphor
fluid-dynamics → perception-and-cognition - The Mind Is A Machine metaphor
manufacturing → mental-experience - The Observer Pattern archetype
surveillance → object-oriented-design - The Obstacle Is the Way paradigm
philosophy - The One Ring metaphor
mythology → governance - The Painting Replaces Your Ideas with Its Ideas metaphor
visual-arts-practice → creative-process - The Pass metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior - The Patient Is the One with the Disease metaphor
medicine → decision-making, leadership-and-management - The Persona archetype
mythology → social-roles - The Pipeline Pattern archetype
fluid-dynamics → data-processing - The Problem Is the Solution mental-model
- The Progress of External Events Is Forward Motion metaphor
journeys → event-structure - The Promontory metaphor
geology → philosophy, ethics-and-morality - The Prototype Pattern archetype
manufacturing → object-oriented-design - The Proxy Pattern archetype
social-roles → object-oriented-design - The Quality Without a Name metaphor
architecture-and-building → software-engineering - The Registry Pattern archetype
governance → software-abstraction - The Repository Pattern archetype
library-and-archive → software-abstraction - The Retrospectoscope mental-model
- The Rule of Six mental-model
film-editing - The Rush metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior - The Self archetype
mythology → integration-and-wholeness - The Senex archetype
mythology → authority-and-mentorship - The Shadow archetype
mythology → hidden-knowledge - The Shapeshifter archetype
mythology → social-roles - The Shire metaphor
mythology → technology-risk - The Singleton Pattern archetype
social-roles → object-oriented-design - The Spider Is the Pure Rationalist archetype
animal-behavior → intellectual-inquiry - The State Pattern metaphor
governance → object-oriented-design - The Strategy Pattern archetype
military-command → object-oriented-design - The Template Method Pattern archetype
publishing → object-oriented-design - The Thing Speaks for Itself metaphor
communication → causal-reasoning - The Trickster archetype
mythology → social-roles - The Unit of Work Pattern archetype
manufacturing → software-abstraction - The Visitor Pattern archetype
social-roles → object-oriented-design - The Visual Field Is A Bounded Region metaphor
embodied-experience → vision - The Visual Field Is A Container metaphor
containers → vision - The Willing Suffer No Injury paradigm
ethics-and-morality - The Wise Old Man archetype
mythology → authority-and-mentorship - The Wrestler metaphor
athletics-and-combat → ethics-and-morality - Theoretical Debate Is Competition metaphor
competition → intellectual-inquiry - Theories Are Beings with Life Cycles metaphor
life-course → intellectual-inquiry - Theories Are Buildings metaphor
architecture-and-building → intellectual-inquiry - Theories Are Cloth metaphor
textiles → intellectual-inquiry - Theories Are Constructed Objects metaphor
architecture-and-building → intellectual-inquiry - Theories Are Covers for the Facts metaphor
covers → intellectual-inquiry - Theories Are People metaphor
social-roles → intellectual-inquiry - Therapeutic Alliance metaphor
war → psychotherapy - Thick Walls pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Things from Your Life pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Three Laws Is Ethical Programming metaphor
science-fiction → artificial-intelligence, ethics-and-morality - Three Sheets to the Wind metaphor
seafaring → embodied-experience - Ticket Rail metaphor
food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior, software-engineering - Till the Cows Come Home metaphor
agriculture → time-and-temporality - Time Is a Changer metaphor
causal-agent → time-and-temporality - Time Is a Container metaphor
containers → time-and-temporality - Time Is a Landscape We Move Through metaphor
journeys → time-and-temporality - Time Is a Limited Resource metaphor
economics → time-and-temporality - Time Is a Moving Object metaphor
embodied-experience → time-and-temporality - Time Is a Pursuer metaphor
animal-behavior → time-and-temporality - Time Is a Resource metaphor
economics → time-and-temporality - Time Is a River metaphor
fluid-dynamics → time-and-temporality - Time Is Money metaphor
economics → time-and-temporality - Time Is Motion metaphor
embodied-experience → time-and-temporality - Time Is Movement metaphor
movement → time-and-temporality - Time Is Stationary and We Move Through It metaphor
embodied-experience → time-and-temporality - Time Travel Is Historical Counterfactual metaphor
science-fiction → causal-reasoning - Tincture of Time metaphor
medicine → decision-making - Tipping Point metaphor
ecology → social-dynamics - Titration metaphor
chemistry → psychotherapy - Tongue and Groove metaphor
carpentry → interface-design, standardization - Too Much Freedom Inhibits Choice mental-model
visual-arts-practice - Tool Use Is Physical Manipulation metaphor
embodied-experience → artificial-intelligence - Tooling Up metaphor
carpentry → software-engineering, planning-and-preparation - Total Utilization mental-model
food-and-cooking - Trade Is Slaughter metaphor
killing → economics - Tradition Unimpeded by Progress mental-model
fire-safety - Tragedy of the Commons paradigm
game-theory → shared-resources, organizational-behavior - Training Is Education metaphor
education → artificial-intelligence - Training Wheels metaphor
cycling → learning-and-development, software-engineering - Transference metaphor
spatial-motion → psychotherapy - Transitional Object mental-model
- Treat the Patient, Not the Test mental-model
medicine - Treating Illness Is Fighting a War metaphor
war → medicine - Triage metaphor
medicine → decision-making, software-engineering - Tricorder Is Universal Sensor metaphor
science-fiction → medicine, measurement - Trojan Horse metaphor
mythology → network-security, software-programs - Trojan War archetype
mythology → conflict-escalation - Troll metaphor
mythology → computing - Trophic Cascade metaphor
ecology → organizational-behavior, systems-thinking - True Self / False Self metaphor
performance → mental-experience, organizational-behavior - Trust vs. Mistrust mental-model
conflict-escalation - Try a Different Tack metaphor
seafaring → intellectual-inquiry - Tug of War with a Monster metaphor
games-and-play → psychotherapy - Two-In, Two-Out pattern
fire-safety - Two-Track Analysis mental-model
manufacturing - Unconditional Positive Regard mental-model
- Understanding Is Grasping metaphor
embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry - Understanding Is Seeing metaphor
vision → intellectual-inquiry - Unique Outcomes pattern
narrative → psychotherapy - Unity of Command pattern
military-command → organizational-behavior - Unix Filter metaphor
fluid-dynamics → data-processing - Unix Pipe metaphor
fluid-dynamics → data-processing - Unix Shell metaphor
containers → software-programs - Unix Signal metaphor
communication → software-programs - Unix Tee metaphor
fluid-dynamics → data-processing - Unknown Is Up; Known Is Down metaphor
embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry - Unwelcome Party Guest metaphor
social-dynamics → psychotherapy - Uploading Is Digital Immortality metaphor
science-fiction - Use Edges and Value the Marginal mental-model
- Use Small and Slow Solutions mental-model
- Use Your Own So as Not to Harm Another paradigm
governance → ethics-and-morality - Valhalla metaphor
mythology → social-behavior - Value Stream metaphor
fluid-dynamics → manufacturing - Values Compass metaphor
navigation → psychotherapy - Veneer metaphor
carpentry → social-presentation - Vestigial Structure metaphor
biology → software-engineering, organizational-behavior - View from Above mental-model
philosophy - Virtue Is the Art of Living metaphor
craftsmanship → philosophy, ethics-and-morality - Virtue Is Up; Depravity Is Down metaphor
embodied-experience → social-behavior - Virus metaphor
medicine → computing - Vital Signs metaphor
medicine → decision-making, systems-thinking - Vomit Draft metaphor
biology → creative-process - Voodoo Programming metaphor
religion → software-programs - Wabi-Sabi in Woodwork paradigm
carpentry → aesthetics, software-engineering - Waldo Is Remote Manipulation metaphor
science-fiction → tool-use, manufacturing - War on Two Fronts metaphor
military-history → competition, decision-making - We Are Puppets on Strings metaphor
theater-and-performance → psychology - Web metaphor
animal-behavior → computing - Weights Are Knowledge metaphor
embodied-experience → artificial-intelligence - Well-Being Is Wealth metaphor
economics → mental-experience - When Pigs Fly metaphor
animal-behavior → time-and-temporality - When You Hear Hoofbeats, Think Horses mental-model
clinical-diagnosis - Where There Is a Right, There Is a Remedy mental-model
governance - White Elephant metaphor
economics → organizational-behavior - Whitewash metaphor
purity → social-presentation - Window metaphor
embodied-experience → architecture-and-building - Window of Tolerance metaphor
architecture-and-building → psychotherapy - Window Place pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Windows Overlooking Life metaphor
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Wings of Light pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Without the Eye the Head Is Blind metaphor
visual-arts-practice → perception-and-cognition - Words Are Weapons metaphor
war → communication - Work Community pattern
architecture-and-building → organizational-structure - Work in Progress metaphor
manufacturing → organizational-behavior, creative-process - Work Should Look Easy, However Elaborate mental-model
- Working Through metaphor
manual-labor → psychotherapy - Workmanship of Certainty paradigm
carpentry → quality-and-craftsmanship - Workmanship of Risk paradigm
carpentry → software-engineering, manufacturing - Workspace Enclosure pattern
architecture-and-building → organizational-structure - World Tree archetype
mythology → governance, ontological-hierarchy - Worse Is Better paradigm
natural-selection → software-engineering - Yak Shaving metaphor
animal-husbandry → software-programs - Yes, And pattern
improvisation → collaborative-work, organizational-behavior - Yin and Yang metaphor
mythology → integration-and-wholeness - Yo-Yo Problem metaphor
puzzles-and-games → software-programs - Yokoten mental-model
manufacturing - You Can Always Take More Off, But You Can't Put It Back On mental-model
carpentry - You Can't Plow a Field by Turning It Over in Your Mind metaphor
agriculture → decision-making, productivity - You Cannot Create Results, Only Conditions mental-model
- You Reap What You Sow metaphor
agriculture → ethics-and-morality, decision-making - Young Doctors Kill, Old Doctors Let Die metaphor
medicine → decision-making - Zen View pattern
architecture-and-building → software-abstraction - Zeno's Paradox mental-model
mathematical-reasoning - Zero Gravity Is Weightlessness metaphor
science-fiction → physics - Zero Trust metaphor
social-dynamics → network-security - Zombie Process metaphor
mythology → software-programs - Zone of Proximal Development mental-model
spatial-location