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Network
Draws the parts as nodes and the links between them as edges, so hubs, bridges, clusters, and indirect paths become visible.
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Mental Model
Network Centrality (Betweenness, Closeness, Degree)
Three complementary measures of a node's importance in a network
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Network Clustering Coefficient
A measure of how interconnected a node's neighbors are with each other—the probability that two of your contacts know each other
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Network Effects
The phenomenon where a product or service becomes MORE VALUABLE as MORE PEOPLE use it—a positive feedback loop where each additional user increases value for all existing users
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Network Function
Network function emerges from connection structure together with the process, node properties, edge meanings, capacities, and timing
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Networking Conversation Framework (FORD Method)
A four-topic conversation framework for building genuine professional connections without the awkwardness and inauthenticity that plague most 'networking.' FORD provides four safe, engaging topic areas: F — Family: 'Do y…
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Neural Connection Plasticity
The brain physically rewires itself based on experience—neurons that fire together wire together, and unused connections are pruned
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Neuroception (Unconscious Threat Detection)
Porges's proposed term for nonconscious evaluation of safety and threat cues within polyvagal theory
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New Urbanism Principles
New Urbanism advocates walkable, mixed-use, diverse neighborhoods as alternatives to car-dependent suburban sprawl
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News Illusion
Rolf Dobelli's argument that consuming news creates an illusion of being well-informed while actually degrading understanding
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News Judgment Criteria (The Professional Nose for News)
News judgment is the cultivated instinct for recognizing which events deserve public attention
Cognitive Move
Next
The middle column covers the months after the immediate push ends: what capacity or position you want standing by then, plus the one price paying for it. It bridges today's action and your long-range aim, so quick wins have somewhere to hand off.
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Next route
Pick one of four exits and commit to it in writing: act now, run one more named probe, wait for a specific trigger, or stop looking. Siblings record what you learned; this line says what happens next, with the probe or trigger spelled out.
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Next-step ready
Ask each surviving option two questions: who owns it, and what is the first concrete action, doable this week, that starts it. Wishes and goals that name no person and no first move get rewritten into a real plan or dropped.
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Nibbling Technique
Nibbling is the practice of making small additional requests after the main agreement has been reached, when the other party is psychologically committed and reluctant to reopen the entire negotiation
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Niches
An ecological niche describes relevant environmental conditions, resources, and interactions associated with a species' persistence
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Nishkama Karma (Desireless Action)
Nishkama Karma refines Karma Yoga: performing action (karma) without desire (kama) for personal reward
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No Panacea
No panacea is the principle that a remedy's usefulness depends on the problem and conditions
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No True Scotsman
An informal logical fallacy where counterexamples are dismissed by retroactively redefining the category to exclude them
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No-action baseline
Ask what would have happened if you had never started. That isolates what the effort itself added. Unlike the next-best-option contrast, this one holds effort at zero, including whatever slow drift or decline doing nothing would have brought.
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Nocebo Effect (Negative Expectations Cause Harm)
Nocebo effects are adverse changes attributable to treatment context, negative expectations, or learned associations under particular conditions
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node-link
Nodes placed freely, every edge drawn, no fixed center and no fixed order. Position carries no meaning beyond keeping the lines apart, so what you read is the shape: which nodes bunch together, which node joins two bunches, and which node has no edges at all. This is the renderer for a graph you are still discovering rather than one you already understand.
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Nodes
Decide which entities get their own dot in the picture, and at what grain. People, teams, accounts, files, whatever the units are. Pick only the ones whose presence or absence would change the story, and label each one plainly.