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Concepts

The mental models and frameworks behind everything covered on galatbaat — physics to psychology to strategy.

Systems & Complexity

Feedback Loops The Butterfly Effect Redundancy & Single Points of Failure Theory of Constraints Gall's Law The Bullwhip Effect Just-In-Time Emergence Antifragility Network Theory

The Biological Engine

Natural Selection The Red Queen Hypothesis Hormesis Carrying Capacity Competitive Exclusion Principle Trophic Cascades Kin Selection Epigenetics Punctuated Equilibrium The Central Dogma

The Digital Architecture

Conway's Law Technical Debt Modularity vs. Integration Moore's Law Affordances The Alignment Problem Information Theory (Shannon Entropy) Turing Completeness Amdahl's Law Metcalfe's Law CAP Theorem Brooks's Law

The Economic Machine

Aggregation Theory Parkinson's Law Compound Interest Network Effects The Peter Principle Margin of Safety Commoditize Your Complement Two-Sided Markets The Innovator's Dilemma Economic Moats Goodhart's Law Opportunity Cost The Principal-Agent Problem The Pareto Principle Tragedy of the Commons Vertical Integration Comparative Advantage Gresham's Law Veblen Goods Creative Destruction

The Human Operating System

Confirmation Bias Survivorship Bias The Dunning-Kruger Effect The Curse of Knowledge Loss Aversion Cognitive Dissonance Hebbian Learning Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs The Halo Effect The Zeigarnik Effect Fundamental Attribution Error

The Mathematical Fabric

Power Laws vs. Normal Distributions Bayes' Theorem Regression to the Mean The Base Rate Fallacy Black Swan Events Fat-Tailed Distributions The Law of Large Numbers Central Limit Theorem Ergodicity Markov Chains Simpson's Paradox Benford's Law The Gambler's Fallacy

The Philosophical Scaffold

The Map Is Not the Territory Inversion Occam's Razor Hanlon's Razor First Principles Thinking Hitchens's Razor The Categorical Imperative The Veil of Ignorance The Ship of Theseus The Solipsism Problem

The Physical Universe

Entropy The Laws of Thermodynamics Activation Energy Inertia Leverage Relativity Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Quantum Superposition & Entanglement The Observer Effect Le Chatelier's Principle Half-Life The Fermi Paradox The Anthropic Principle

The Social Superorganism

The Overton Window The Medium Is the Message The OODA Loop The Prisoner's Dilemma The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect Asymmetric Warfare Nash Equilibrium Amara's Law Center of Gravity Zero-Sum vs. Positive-Sum Games The Thucydides Trap The Iron Law of Oligarchy Manufacturing Consent Dunbar's Number

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