Conceptually
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Long list of concepts

 

Or you can see here for a list of concepts we’ve written about.

Unwritten concepts

We don’t have a monopoly on useful concepts that have large explanatory power. So you can browse a list of important concepts we haven’t written about yet below.

  1. Introspection illusion

  2. Systems Thinking

  3. Map and territory

  4. Words as handles

  5. Terminal vs instrumental goals

  6. Hedging

  7. Pareto principle

  8. Statistical distributions

  9. Evolution and selection of ideas

  10. Convergence

  11. Externalities

  12. Chesterton’s fence

  13. Price discrimination

  14. Decision theory

  15. Uncertainty

  16. Prescriptive and descriptive

  17. Equilibria

  18. Status anxiety

  19. Fixed costs vs variable costs

  20. Curse of knowledge/ illusion of transparency

  21. Effective altruism

  22. Astronomical waste

  23. Existential risk

  24. BATNA

  25. Core competency

  26. Porter’s 5 forces analysis

  27. Minimum viable product

  28. Product/market fit

  29. Creative destruction

  30. Economic rent

  31. Bertrand paradox

  32. Tullock paradox

  33. Winner’s curse

  34. De re vs de dicto

  35. Red team

  36. Feedback loop

  37. Essentialism

  38. Toxoplasma of rage

  39. Near vs far

  40. Gartner hype cycle

  41. Deduction vs induction

  42. Validity and soundness

  43. Rent Seeking

  44. Peter principle

  45. Attractor states and default modes

  46. Granularity/levels of analysis

  47. Ring of Gyges

  48. Hawthorne effect

  49. Lucas critique

  50. Baader-Meinhof phenomenon

  51. Unilateralist curse

  52. Meta/ abstraction/ recursion

  53. Futarchy and prediction markets

  54. Belief in belief

  55. Loss aversion

  56. Sunk cost fallacy

  57. Moore’s law

  58. Subjective, objective, intersubjective

  59. Antifragile /hormesis

  60. System accidents (complexity and coupling)

  61. Locus of control

  62. Secondary gain

  63. r/K selection

  64. Dunbar’s number

  65. Bateman's principle

  66. Proving too much

  67. Growth mindset

  68. Apophenia/

  69. Monopoly/ monopsony

  70. Piketty's capital

  71. Easterlin paradox

  72. Lerner's theorem

  73. Preference transitivity

  74. Flynn effect

  75. Goodhart's law