{
  "site": {
    "title": "Joost van der Laan",
    "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl",
    "description": "Personal site — technology, web development, mental models, and experiments.",
    "author": "Joost van der Laan",
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  "sections": [
    {
      "title": "About",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/about/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Work",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/work/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Projects",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/projects/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Now",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/now/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Labs",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/labs/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Models",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/"
    }
  ],
  "posts": [
    {
      "title": "Magento 1.7 NGINX configuration",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/2012-10-01-magento-1-7-nginx-configuration/",
      "date": "2012-10-01",
      "description": "A NGINX config to use with Magento version 1.7"
    },
    {
      "title": "Perfect looking webfonts for Chrome on Windows",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/2014-04-30-perfect-looking-webfonts-for-chrome-on-windows/",
      "date": "2014-04-30",
      "description": "Font-face webfonts look terrible in Chrome on Windows by default. Luckily there is a solution for this common problem."
    },
    {
      "title": "Styleguide",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/2014-04-30-styleguide/",
      "date": "2014-04-30",
      "description": "Styleguide for this site."
    },
    {
      "title": "Typography",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/2014-04-30-typography/",
      "date": "2014-04-30",
      "description": "View examples of all possible Markdown options."
    },
    {
      "title": "Typefaces Fonts",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/2020-02-01-typefaces-fonts/",
      "date": "2020-02-01",
      "description": "Generally speaking, there are two types of typography– expressive typography (type is visual, carries the meaning of the word and sometimes appears as physical shapes) and functional typography (type that is meant to be read). I will focus on the latter."
    },
    {
      "title": "Photography Workflow for Linux and MacOS",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/2021-03-12-photography-workflow/",
      "date": "2021-03-12",
      "description": "First of all, you take photos with your camera. When you're happy with the results, you want to import them to your computer to start the rest of the workflow discussed here."
    },
    {
      "title": "Convert HEIC to JPEG using Imagemagick",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/2021-03-17-convert-heic/",
      "date": "2021-03-17",
      "description": "With Imagemagick it is pretty straightforward to convert HEIC files. Version 7 has HEIC support built-in."
    },
    {
      "title": "Markdown Examples",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/2021-03-19-markdown/",
      "date": "2021-03-19",
      "description": "View examples of all possible Markdown options."
    },
    {
      "title": "How to test a new hard drive",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/2021-03-26-testing-a-new-harddrive/",
      "date": "2021-03-26",
      "description": "Harddrives break a lot. In fact, it is the part of a computer that breaks most of all. While we cannot prevent them from breaking, we can make sure we got a good new drive to begin with, by testing it. Here's how."
    },
    {
      "title": "Books",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/2022-08-01-books/",
      "date": "2022-08-01",
      "description": "Great books I've read."
    },
    {
      "title": "How to use Font-Ranger to generate web fonts from otf and ttf files",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/2022-12-14-how-to-use-font-ranger-to-generate-web-fonts-from-otf-ttf/",
      "date": "2022-12-14",
      "description": "Font-ranger is a command line tool to generate web fonts from otf and ttf files."
    },
    {
      "title": "Tailwind CSS Test",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/2025-07-09-tailwind-test/",
      "date": "2025-07-09",
      "description": "Testing Tailwind CSS integration with Zola"
    }
  ],
  "models": [
    {
      "title": "1000x Knowledge",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/1000x-knowledge/",
      "description": "Knowledge that compounds into wildly disproportionate results through leverage, not just harder work."
    },
    {
      "title": "10x Goal Setting",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/10x-goal-setting/",
      "description": "Setting a goal ten times bigger than the obvious one, because a 10x target forces a different strategy than a 10% one."
    },
    {
      "title": "10x Project Management",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/10x-project-management/",
      "description": "Applying 10x thinking to a project: asking what would make the outcome ten times bigger or faster, not 10% better."
    },
    {
      "title": "10x Understanding Yourself Others",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/10x-understanding-yourself-others/",
      "description": "Knowing your own unique strengths well enough to focus there, and others well enough to hand off the rest."
    },
    {
      "title": "4dx",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/4dx/",
      "description": "The 4 Disciplines of Execution: a framework for hitting a small number of key goals despite daily operational noise."
    },
    {
      "title": "7 Levels of System Intervention",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/7-levels-of-system-intervention/",
      "description": "Ranking ways to intervene in a system from shallow, easy tweaks to deep changes in goals and mindset."
    },
    {
      "title": "Ad Hoc",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/ad-hoc/",
      "description": "Solving a specific problem right now, without building a reusable process around it."
    },
    {
      "title": "Agile",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/agile/",
      "description": "Delivering work in small increments and adapting the plan continuously based on feedback."
    },
    {
      "title": "Authority Misinfluence",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/authority-misinfluence/",
      "description": "The tendency to defer to authority figures even when their claim is wrong or outside their expertise."
    },
    {
      "title": "Availability Misweighing",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/availability-misweighing/",
      "description": "Overweighting information that is vivid or easy to recall, and ignoring what is not top of mind."
    },
    {
      "title": "Barbell Strategy - Nicholas Nassim Taleb",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/barbell-strategy-nicholas-nassim-taleb/",
      "description": "95% safe, 5% very risky"
    },
    {
      "title": "Beliefs",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/beliefs/",
      "description": "The models we hold about how the world works, which filter what we notice and how we act."
    },
    {
      "title": "Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG)",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/big-hairy-audacious-goal-bhag/",
      "description": "Shoot for the moon, land on the stars"
    },
    {
      "title": "Blinded Randomized Design",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/blinded-randomized-design/",
      "description": "Randomly assigning subjects to conditions and hiding who got what, so results reflect the treatment and not bias or expectation."
    },
    {
      "title": "Bottleneck",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/bottleneck/",
      "description": "The single slowest or most constrained step in a system that limits the throughput of the whole."
    },
    {
      "title": "Bottom Up vs Top Down Causation",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/bottom-up-vs-top-down-causation/",
      "description": "Whether a change is best explained by small parts driving the whole (bottom-up) or the whole shaping its parts (top-down)."
    },
    {
      "title": "Brokerage Closure",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/brokerage-closure/",
      "description": "A trade-off in social networks between bridging disconnected groups (brokerage) and tightly knitting one group together (closure)."
    },
    {
      "title": "Centrality",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/centrality/",
      "description": "How important or influential a node is within a network, based on its position and connections."
    },
    {
      "title": "Chunking",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/chunking/",
      "description": "Grouping individual pieces of information into larger, meaningful units so the mind can hold more at once."
    },
    {
      "title": "Cognitive Biases",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/cognitive-biases/",
      "description": "Systematic, predictable patterns in human judgment that cause people to deviate from rational thinking."
    },
    {
      "title": "Common Cause",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/common-cause/",
      "description": "Variation in a process that comes from its normal, everyday operation rather than a single identifiable event."
    },
    {
      "title": "Compound Interest",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/compound-interest/",
      "description": "How returns earning returns of their own makes a quantity grow at an accelerating rate over time."
    },
    {
      "title": "Contrast Misreaction",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/contrast-misreaction/",
      "description": "Judging something relative to a recent reference point rather than on its own absolute terms."
    },
    {
      "title": "Controlled Experiment",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/controlled-experiment/",
      "description": "A test that isolates one variable by comparing a treatment group against an otherwise identical control group."
    },
    {
      "title": "Controlled Placebo",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/controlled-placebo/",
      "description": "Adding an inert placebo arm to an experiment to separate a treatment's real effect from the effect of merely being treated."
    },
    {
      "title": "Creativity Imagination",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/creativity-imagination/",
      "description": "Combining and recombining existing ideas in new ways to imagine possibilities that do not yet exist."
    },
    {
      "title": "Critical Path Analysis",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/critical-path-analysis/",
      "description": "Mapping a project's tasks and dependencies to find the longest sequence that determines the earliest possible completion date."
    },
    {
      "title": "Crowdsourcing",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/crowdsourcing/",
      "description": "Obtaining ideas, content, or solutions by opening a task to a large group of people rather than a single expert."
    },
    {
      "title": "Curiosity",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/curiosity/",
      "description": "The drive to explore and understand the unknown, which fuels learning and the discovery of new ideas."
    },
    {
      "title": "Decision Making on short, medium and long term",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/decision-making-on-short-medium-and-long-term/",
      "description": "Pair a different mental model with each decision time horizon: lifetime, years, months, and days."
    },
    {
      "title": "Deliberate Practice",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/deliberate-practice/",
      "description": "Structured, effortful practice with immediate feedback aimed at your specific weaknesses, not just repetition."
    },
    {
      "title": "Denial",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/denial/",
      "description": "The mind unconsciously distorts or blocks out painful reality it cannot bear to accept."
    },
    {
      "title": "Deprival Superreaction",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/deprival-superreaction/",
      "description": "People react far more intensely to a loss, or a threatened loss, than to an equivalent gain."
    },
    {
      "title": "Design Sprint",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/design-sprint/",
      "description": "A five-day process for answering critical product questions through prototyping and user testing."
    },
    {
      "title": "Dflss",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/dflss/",
      "description": "Design for Lean Six Sigma: designing a new process or product for quality and low waste from the start."
    },
    {
      "title": "Disliking Hating",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/disliking-hating/",
      "description": "A Munger bias: disliking someone makes us overlook their virtues and unfairly judge whatever gets associated with them."
    },
    {
      "title": "Dmaic",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/dmaic/",
      "description": "DMAIC is the Six Sigma cycle for process improvement: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control."
    },
    {
      "title": "Doubt Avoidance",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/doubt-avoidance/",
      "description": "A Munger tendency: uncertainty is uncomfortable, so the mind rushes to resolve doubt by reaching a decision quickly."
    },
    {
      "title": "Eisenhower Matrix",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/eisenhower-matrix/",
      "description": "A prioritization grid that sorts tasks by urgency and importance into four quadrants to decide what to do, when."
    },
    {
      "title": "Elaborative Interrogation",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/elaborative-interrogation/",
      "description": "A learning technique of asking yourself \"why is this true?\" for facts, which builds deeper, longer-lasting understanding."
    },
    {
      "title": "Energy",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/energy/",
      "description": "Manage personal energy, not just time: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy are finite and renewable."
    },
    {
      "title": "Envy Jealousy",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/envy-jealousy/",
      "description": "Charlie Munger's Envy/Jealousy Tendency: the drive to resent others' success, which distorts judgment even when it costs you nothing."
    },
    {
      "title": "Evolution",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/evolution/",
      "description": "Evolution by natural selection: variation, selection, and retention compound over time to produce complex change without central design."
    },
    {
      "title": "Excessive Self Regard",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/excessive-self-regard/",
      "description": "Charlie Munger's Excessive Self-Regard Tendency: the common bias of overvaluing your own abilities, judgments, and possessions."
    },
    {
      "title": "Falsifiability",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/falsifiability/",
      "description": "Karl Popper's criterion for science: a claim only counts as scientific if some possible observation could prove it wrong."
    },
    {
      "title": "Feedback Loop",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/feedback-loop/",
      "description": "A system structure where output feeds back as input, either reinforcing a trend or balancing it back toward equilibrium."
    },
    {
      "title": "First Principles",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/first-principles/",
      "description": "Reasoning from the most basic, verifiable truths of a problem rather than by analogy to convention."
    },
    {
      "title": "First Things First",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/first-things-first/",
      "description": "Organizing time and effort around what is genuinely important, not just what feels urgent."
    },
    {
      "title": "Forgetting Curve Spaced Repetition",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/forgetting-curve-spaced-repetition/",
      "description": "Memory fades on a predictable curve unless reinforced by reviews spaced increasingly far apart."
    },
    {
      "title": "Giving",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/giving/",
      "description": "Contributing value to others without demanding an immediate return, so trust and goodwill compound over time."
    },
    {
      "title": "Goal Setting",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/goal-setting/",
      "description": "Choosing the right goal before optimizing strategy, since a good strategy toward the wrong goal is still wasted effort."
    },
    {
      "title": "Hurdle Rate",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/hurdle-rate/",
      "description": "The minimum acceptable return a project or investment must clear before it is worth pursuing."
    },
    {
      "title": "ICE Framework",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/ice-framework/",
      "description": "Scoring options on Impact, Confidence, and Ease, and where that sits in a wider decision hierarchy from daily tasks to lifetime choices."
    },
    {
      "title": "Inconsistency Avoidance",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/inconsistency-avoidance/",
      "description": "The tendency to keep prior conclusions, habits, and commitments even after new evidence undercuts them."
    },
    {
      "title": "Indentify Root Causes",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/indentify-root-causes/",
      "description": "Tracing a problem back to its underlying cause instead of treating the symptom closest to the surface."
    },
    {
      "title": "Influence From Mere Association",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/influence-from-mere-association/",
      "description": "Judging a person, product, or idea by what it is merely linked to, rather than by its own merits."
    },
    {
      "title": "Kaizen",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/kaizen/",
      "description": "A philosophy of continuous, incremental improvement carried out by everyone, everywhere, every day."
    },
    {
      "title": "Kantian Fairness",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/kantian-fairness/",
      "description": "A Munger bias: people expect fairness to be reciprocated exactly as they define it, and react badly when it is not."
    },
    {
      "title": "Lean Startup",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/lean-startup/",
      "description": "A framework, from Eric Ries, for building new products under uncertainty through rapid build-measure-learn loops."
    },
    {
      "title": "Learning How to Learn",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/learning-how-to-learn/",
      "description": "Metacognitive strategies, like retrieval practice, spaced repetition, and chunking, that make learning any skill more effective."
    },
    {
      "title": "Liking Loving",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/liking-loving/",
      "description": "A Munger bias in which liking or loving someone makes us overlook their faults and adopt their views."
    },
    {
      "title": "Lollapalooza",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/lollapalooza/",
      "description": "Charlie Munger's term for extreme outcomes that appear when several psychological tendencies combine and reinforce each other."
    },
    {
      "title": "Model Map",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/map/",
      "description": "An interactive force-directed graph showing how mental models connect and build on each other."
    },
    {
      "title": "Master Your Metrics",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/master-your-metrics/",
      "description": "Track the few metrics that truly reflect progress and treat them as signals to act on, not vanity numbers."
    },
    {
      "title": "Meta Tool Usage and Creation",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/meta-tool-usage-and-creation/",
      "description": "Building tools that make it easier to build other tools compounds your capability faster than using tools directly."
    },
    {
      "title": "Metacognition",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/metacognition/",
      "description": "Thinking about your own thinking to monitor, evaluate, and improve how you learn and make decisions."
    },
    {
      "title": "Metcalfes Law",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/metcalfes-law/",
      "description": "A network's value grows roughly with the square of its number of connected users, not linearly with each one added."
    },
    {
      "title": "Moores Law",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/moores-law/",
      "description": "Gordon Moore's observation that the number of transistors on a chip roughly doubles every two years, driving exponential compute growth."
    },
    {
      "title": "Multiple Causation",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/multiple-causation/",
      "description": "Most significant outcomes result from several factors acting together, not a single isolated cause."
    },
    {
      "title": "Network Building",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/network-building/",
      "description": "Deliberately investing in relationships before you need them, so information, opportunities, and trust are there when you do."
    },
    {
      "title": "North Star",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/north-star/",
      "description": "A single metric or statement chosen to represent the core value a product or team delivers, used to align decisions."
    },
    {
      "title": "Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/objectives-and-key-results-okrs/",
      "description": "OKRs pair a qualitative objective with measurable key results to align and track quarterly strategy execution."
    },
    {
      "title": "Opportunity Capitalization",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/opportunity-capitalization/",
      "description": "Converting a recognized opportunity into a concrete result through timely, decisive action before it closes."
    },
    {
      "title": "Opportunity Cultivation",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/opportunity-cultivation/",
      "description": "Deliberately noticing, nurturing, and developing a potential opportunity before it is mature enough to act on."
    },
    {
      "title": "Opportunity",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/opportunity/",
      "description": "A favorable set of circumstances that only creates value once it is noticed and acted on."
    },
    {
      "title": "Over Optimism",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/over-optimism/",
      "description": "Charlie Munger's term for the mind's default bias toward overly favorable estimates of outcomes and one's own prospects."
    },
    {
      "title": "Pain Avoiding",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/pain-avoiding/",
      "description": "A Munger tendency: the mind unconsciously distorts painful reality to reduce psychological pain, often through denial."
    },
    {
      "title": "Peer Review",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/peer-review/",
      "description": "Having independent, qualified peers scrutinize a claim or piece of work before it is accepted or published."
    },
    {
      "title": "Prioritization 80/20 Pareto",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/prioritization-8020-pareto/",
      "description": "Roughly 80% of outcomes come from 20% of causes, so focus effort on the vital few inputs."
    },
    {
      "title": "Probabilistic Thinking",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/probabilistic-thinking/",
      "description": "Reasoning in terms of likelihoods and ranges of outcomes instead of treating predictions as certain."
    },
    {
      "title": "Problem Definition",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/problem-definition/",
      "description": "Precisely stating what problem you are actually solving before jumping to solutions."
    },
    {
      "title": "Problem Framing",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/problem-framing/",
      "description": "The way a problem is worded quietly limits which solutions people consider."
    },
    {
      "title": "Problem Logging",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/problem-logging/",
      "description": "Writing down problems as they occur, instead of relying on memory, to spot patterns and set priorities."
    },
    {
      "title": "Problem Solving",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/problem-solving/",
      "description": "A general process for moving from a problem to a working solution: define, analyze, generate, act, review."
    },
    {
      "title": "Procrastination",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/procrastination/",
      "description": "Voluntarily delaying a task despite expecting the delay to leave you worse off."
    },
    {
      "title": "Productivity Pyramid",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/productivity-pyramid/",
      "description": "Stacking daily tasks on weekly plans, on goals, on values, so day-to-day work ladders up to what actually matters."
    },
    {
      "title": "Reason Respecting",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/reason-respecting/",
      "description": "A Munger tendency: people comply more readily with a request when given a reason for it, even a weak one."
    },
    {
      "title": "Reciprocation",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/reciprocation/",
      "description": "A deep-seated tendency to return favors, gifts, and concessions in kind, even when the first gesture was small or unsolicited."
    },
    {
      "title": "Regret Minimization",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/regret-minimization/",
      "description": "Aiming for long-term satisfaction"
    },
    {
      "title": "Reward Punishment",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/reward-punishment/",
      "description": "Charlie Munger's observation that incentives shape behavior more powerfully than people expect."
    },
    {
      "title": "Root Cause Analysis",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/root-cause-analysis/",
      "description": "A structured process for tracing a problem back to its underlying cause instead of its nearest symptom."
    },
    {
      "title": "Root Cause vs Proximate Use",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/root-cause-vs-proximate-use/",
      "description": "The proximate cause is the last event before an outcome; the root cause is the earlier one worth fixing."
    },
    {
      "title": "Scientific Method",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/scientific-method/",
      "description": "Form a testable hypothesis, gather evidence to test it, and revise the hypothesis based on the result."
    },
    {
      "title": "Scrum",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/scrum/",
      "description": "A lightweight agile framework for running product development in fixed-length sprints with defined roles."
    },
    {
      "title": "Second Order Effect",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/second-order-effect/",
      "description": "Tracing the knock-on effects a decision causes beyond its immediate, obvious result."
    },
    {
      "title": "Simplifying",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/simplifying/",
      "description": "Stripping a problem or system down to its essential parts so it becomes easier to understand and act on."
    },
    {
      "title": "Small World Phenomenon",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/small-world-phenomenon/",
      "description": "The finding that most people in a large network are connected through only a small number of intermediate links."
    },
    {
      "title": "Smart",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/smart/",
      "description": "A checklist for turning a vague goal into one that is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound."
    },
    {
      "title": "Social Proof",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/social-proof/",
      "description": "The tendency to treat what other people are doing as evidence for the right thing to do."
    },
    {
      "title": "Stress Influence",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/stress-influence/",
      "description": "A Munger tendency: stress amplifies other psychological tendencies and can trigger sudden, drastic shifts in behavior."
    },
    {
      "title": "Subdividing",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/subdividing/",
      "description": "Breaking a large, complex problem into smaller parts that are each easier to understand and solve."
    },
    {
      "title": "Sufficiency vs Maximization",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/sufficiency-vs-maximization/",
      "description": "Contrasting decision styles: stopping at a \"good enough\" option versus searching for the objectively best one."
    },
    {
      "title": "Technium",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/technium/",
      "description": "Kevin Kelly's term for the self-organizing, interconnected system that all of humanity's technology forms together."
    },
    {
      "title": "The One Thing",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/the-one-thing/",
      "description": "Gary Keller's framework for finding the single highest-leverage action to focus on before anything else."
    },
    {
      "title": "Third Order Effect",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/third-order-effect/",
      "description": "Tracing a decision's consequences three steps out, beyond the immediate and second-order effects."
    },
    {
      "title": "Tipping Point",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/tipping-point/",
      "description": "The point at which small, incremental changes accumulate enough to trigger a sudden, large-scale shift."
    },
    {
      "title": "Top of Mind",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/top-of-mind/",
      "description": "The idea, brand, or option that comes to a person's attention first, without prompting, when a category is mentioned."
    },
    {
      "title": "Twaddle",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/twaddle/",
      "description": "A Munger tendency: people feel pressure to speak or answer at length even when they have little of substance to say."
    },
    {
      "title": "Vulnerability",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/vulnerability/",
      "description": "Choosing to show up and be seen with uncertain outcome, which research links to trust, connection, and courage rather than weakness."
    },
    {
      "title": "Waterfall",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/waterfall/",
      "description": "A sequential project approach where each phase (requirements, design, build, test, release) finishes before the next begins."
    },
    {
      "title": "Wisdom of Crowds",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/wisdom-of-crowds/",
      "description": "Aggregating many independent, diverse judgments can produce an estimate more accurate than most individual experts."
    },
    {
      "title": "Working Memory",
      "url": "https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models/working-memory/",
      "description": "The limited mental workspace that holds and manipulates a small amount of information for immediate use."
    }
  ]
}