Creativity & Innovation
Major vs Minor Chords
Major and minor triads differ in the interval between the root and third while sharing a perfect fifth
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Medici Effect (Innovation at Intersections)
Johansson's Medici Effect emphasizes creative possibilities at intersections of fields, experiences, and cultures
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Mimesis (Art Imitating Life)
Mimesis is imitation or representation in artistic and philosophical traditions
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Narrative Arc
A narrative arc organizes development and change in a story
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Oblique Strategies (Brian Eno)
Oblique Strategies is a set of prompts by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt intended to offer an indirect approach during creative work
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Paradigm Shifts as Highest Leverage Point
Meadows identifies paradigms as potentially powerful influences on system goals and design
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Paradigm shift
Kuhn describes scientific development through work within shared frameworks and episodes of substantial framework change
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Representation
Representations depict selected information in a form that can support particular operations and questions
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SCAMPER Method
SCAMPER is a checklist of transformation prompts associated with Bob Eberle: substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put to other uses, eliminate, and reverse or rearrange.
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Scenius (Communal Genius)
Scenius is Eno's term for the collective cultural context that can contribute to creative work
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Style (as Strategic Choice)
Style is a recurring pattern of expressive choices that can communicate purpose, identity, and expectations
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Affordances (Gibson/Norman)
Affordances are action possibilities relative to an actor's capabilities
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Cathedral vs Bazaar (Closed vs Open Development)
Raymond's metaphor contrasts development styles with different degrees of centralized coordination and exposure to distributed participation
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Defensive Design (Designing for Misuse)
Defensive design addresses credible error and misuse through prevention, limitation, detection, or recovery
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Desire Line (Path of Least Resistance)
Desire lines are informal routes emerging through repeated use
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Desire Paths (Let Users Show You the Way)
A design approach that studies actual activity and informal workarounds before committing to or revising a structure
Design ThinkingDesign & Architecture
Form Follows Function
An architectural principle associated with Sullivan that relates form to a building's functions
Design ThinkingDesign & Architecture
Horror Vacui vs Minimalism
Horror vacui and minimalism draw attention to contrasting treatments of space and detail
Design ThinkingDesign & Architecture
Poka-Yoke (Mistake-Proofing)
Poka-yoke, associated with Shigeo Shingo's manufacturing work, designs a specific error out of a process or makes it detectable before it propagates
Design ThinkingDesign & Architecture
Progressive Disclosure
Progressive disclosure presents relevant initial information or controls while making additional detail available through clear access
Design ThinkingDesign & Architecture
Wabi-Sabi (Beauty in Imperfection)
Wabi-sabi refers to aesthetic sensibilities associated with Japanese traditions and qualities such as transience, modesty, and irregularity
Design ThinkingDevelopmental Psychology
Immunity to Change (Kegan & Lahey)
A framework for exploring whether a desired change is constrained by a competing commitment and a protective assumption
Adult DevelopmentDevelopmental Psychology
Kegan's Subject-Object Theory (Orders of Mind)
Kegan's theory describes developmental changes in the relation between what a person is embedded in, or subject to, and what they can examine as object
Adult DevelopmentDevelopmental Psychology
Spiral Dynamics (Graves/Beck/Cowan): Value Memes
Spiral Dynamics, developed by Beck and Cowan from Graves's work, describes proposed value-system patterns in relation to life conditions
Adult DevelopmentDevelopmental Psychology
Vertical vs. Horizontal Development
A leadership-development distinction between adding knowledge or skills and proposed changes in the organization of meaning-making
Adult DevelopmentDevelopmental Psychology
Fowler's Stages of Faith (Meaning-Making Development)
Fowler proposes stages in the organization of faith understood broadly as meaning-making and ultimate concern
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Adverse Selection
Adverse selection occurs when hidden information influences participation in an exchange or contract, producing an unfavorable mix for the less-informed side
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Arbitrage
Arbitrage links purchases and sales to exploit a discrepancy between identical or appropriately equivalent instruments or assets
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Asymmetric Risk/Reward
Asymmetric risk/reward refers to unequal possible gains and losses
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Barriers to Entry
Barriers to entry are conditions that impede effective new competition
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Bob Rubin Trade (Hidden Risk)
Taleb's label for arrangements in which an actor captures gains while substantial downside is borne by others, sometimes after rewards have already been paid
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Bribery
Bribery involves offering, giving, requesting, or accepting a benefit to improperly influence an entrusted decision, with exact legal elements depending on the jurisdiction and conduct
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Bundling and Unbundling
Bundling combines products or services into a package; unbundling makes components available separately
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Chilling Effect
A chilling effect is the discouragement of lawful or otherwise permitted conduct through anticipated negative consequences, such as enforcement, retaliation, or the burden of defending the conduct
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Comparative Advantage
A producer has a comparative advantage in an activity when its opportunity cost is lower than another producer's
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Conspicuous Consumption
Conspicuous consumption, associated with Thorstein Veblen, describes consumption that displays wealth or social standing
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Creative Destruction
Creative destruction is Schumpeter's account of how innovation transforms capitalist production and competition, creating new activities while displacing some established ones
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Deadweight Loss
Deadweight loss is the reduction in total surplus relative to an efficient allocation under stated assumptions
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Debt
Debt is an obligation to repay money or another agreed resource under specified terms
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The Law of Diminishing Returns
Diminishing marginal returns means that, beyond some point, additional units of one input add progressively less output while other relevant inputs remain fixed
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Discount Rate
A discount rate converts future amounts into present equivalents for a stated valuation framework
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Diversification
Diversification combines exposures to reduce dependence on particular sources of loss
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Double-Entry Bookkeeping
Double-entry bookkeeping records transactions through equal total debits and credits across the affected accounts, preserving the accounting equation Assets = Liabilities + Equity
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Efficient-Market Hypothesis
The efficient-market hypothesis concerns how asset prices reflect a specified information set and whether that information permits systematic abnormal returns under an appropriate return model
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Ergodicity
Ergodicity concerns the equivalence of suitable time and ensemble averages for a specified process and observable under appropriate conditions
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Externalities
Externalities are costs or benefits of an activity that affect others and are not fully reflected in the relevant decision-maker's incentives or compensation arrangements
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Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)
Fear of missing out is apprehension that others may be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent, often accompanied by a desire to stay connected
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Free Rider Problem
The free rider problem arises when people can benefit from collective provision without contributing to its cost, potentially leading to underprovision
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