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Choice Overload applies to Trade-off. Activate to inspect this relation.Goal-Gradient Effect applies to Trade-off. Activate to inspect this relation.Net Promoter Score applies to Trade-off. Activate to inspect this relation.Nudging applies to Trade-off. Activate to inspect this relation.NudgingTrade-offChoice OverloadGoal-Gradient EffectNet Promoter Score

8 concepts viewed through this lens. Bridge concepts connect this view to Behavioral Science, Biology, Business, Cognitive Psychology….

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  • A line with no arrow is a two-way relationship
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5 concepts4 relationships10 disciplines1 relation families

At a glance

Designing choice architecture to steer behaviour predictably without forbidding options or changing incentives.

Disciplines
Behavioral Economics
Role in the graph
Leaf concept
Relationships
1 · 1 relation families

What am I looking at?

In this lens (8)

Bridge concepts (13)

Just outside the lens — they connect it to other context.

  • Trade-off4
    Biology, Business, Design, Economics, Engineering, Ethics, Political Science, Public Policy, Systems Engineering · connects to Choice Overload, Goal-Gradient Effect, Net Promoter Score…
  • Anchoring1
    Behavioral Science · connects to Cognitive bias
  • Availability Heuristic1
    Cognitive Psychology · connects to Cognitive bias
  • Base-Rate Neglect1
    Cognitive Psychology · connects to Cognitive bias
  • Behavioral economics1
    Economics, Psychology · connects to Cognitive bias

Insights from this view

Structural observations about the concepts shown here — descriptions of this graph, not claims about the world.

  • This view connects 10 disciplines: Behavioral Economics, Biology, Business, Design, Economics, Engineering, Ethics, Political Science, Public Policy, Systems Engineering.
  • Trade-off is a bridge concept — viewed here through Biology, Business, Design, Economics, Engineering, Ethics, Political Science, Public Policy, Systems Engineering.

Relationships as a list

The focused concept’s relationships. Pick another concept in the graph above to update this list.

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By discipline

ChemistryBiologyPhysicsMathematicsComputer ScienceGeologyMineralogyEconomics

By thinking pattern

Bayesian updatingCause and effectCompoundingConservationConstraintsDefense in depthDiffusion & spreadEmergenceEnergy transformationEntropy & irreversibilityEquilibriumFeedback loopIncentivesInformationLevels & hierarchyModularityNetworksOptimizationOscillationProbabilityRecursion & self-similarityScaleSignal vs noiseSource–pathway–receptorStocks and flowsSymmetry & invarianceThresholds & tipping pointsTrade-offsTriangulationVariation & selectionWaves

By journey

From a Leaf to the ClimateWhy Music Moves UsHow Machines LearnReasoning about a Leaf and the Climate

Concept collections

Concept collections are curated lenses onto the fabric — themed sets of ideas that recur across disciplines. They are not journeys; they are a way to read the graph.

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What this is

Start from one concept and expand outward. The view never shows everything at once — click a node to refocus, filter by relationship type, or switch to an accessible list.

One fabric

3750 concepts and 5051 typed relations form one connected component — no isolated silo.

How to read it

Focus a concept, or apply a lens (discipline, mental model, journey) to see only the threads that matter.