Foundations of Energy
How energy is stored, transferred and transformed — from falling objects to living cells.
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4 concepts viewed through this lens. Bridge concepts connect this view to Agriculture, Biology, Business, Chemistry….
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- Focused concept
- Connected concept
- Bridge concept (just outside the lens)
- Arrow points from cause / source to effect / target
- A line with no arrow is a two-way relationship
- Node colour marks the concept’s primary discipline
4 concepts3 relationships13 disciplines3 relation families
Scarcity
Open concept →At a glance
Limited resources against unlimited wants — the root of every trade-off.
- Disciplines
- Economics · Ecology · Political Science · Public Policy · Sustainability Science
- Role in the graph
- Cross-disciplinary bridge — reaches Agriculture, Biology, Business, Design, Engineering, Ethics, Nutrition Science, Systems Engineering
- Relationships
- 3 · 3 relation families
- Mental models
- 2
What am I looking at?
In this lens (4)
- illuminated by this discipline
- illuminated by this discipline
- illuminated by this discipline
- illuminated by this discipline
Bridge concepts (21)
Just outside the lens — they connect it to other context.
- Environmental Science, Microbiology · connects to Carbon cycle
- Biology, Ecology, Forestry · connects to Resilience
- Environmental Science · connects to Carbon cycle
- Climatology, Earth & Space Sciences · connects to Carbon cycle
- Earth & Space Sciences, Geology · connects to Carbon cycle
Insights from this view
Structural observations about the concepts shown here — descriptions of this graph, not claims about the world.
- This view connects 13 disciplines: Agriculture, Biology, Business, Design, Ecology, Economics, Engineering, Ethics, Nutrition Science, Political Science, Public Policy, Sustainability Science, Systems Engineering.
- Scarcity is a bridge concept — viewed here through Ecology, Economics, Political Science, Public Policy, Sustainability Science.
- The connections here span 3 relation families.
- Trade offs explains 3 concepts in this view (Agriculture, Biology, Business, Design, Ecology, Economics, Engineering, Ethics, Nutrition Science, Political Science, Public Policy, Sustainability Science, 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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A lens is a deterministic projection of the graph. Pick a discipline, thinking pattern or journey to reframe the whole view.
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
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.
Understanding Systems
Stocks, flows and feedback — why wholes behave in ways their parts do not.
Patterns Everywhere
Regularities that recur across maths, music, nature and art.
How Information Moves
Encoding, signals and noise — the same idea in computers, genes and nerves.
About this view
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.