Describing what you see in a concise way or re-naming confusing
things is an integral part of any innovator.
- National Food System
- The system of food distribution (roads, trucks), storage facilities,
retailers, the common styles of restaurants available and their
infrastructure, national guidelines for how certain foods are
processed, sources of production, the inputs that go into food
production. What is most noticed in the National Food System are the
choices available to consumers and how that affects their health.
- Prestige Trap
- Also known as the inverse halo effect, assigning falsely positive
values to someone based on an impression, brand, school, and so on.
- Mental Conception
- Most of the human constructed world is a hallucination. The bridges,
roads, houses, and so on were conceptualized in someone's mind, so
living in the world is in a way living in someone else's mind. When
machines or houses from the past can no longer be built, we still
see the echoes of someone's brain despite not being able to do it
anymore. When people say material and spiritual poverty, we see that
the lack of mental wealth leads to poor material wealth. Writing or
blueprints transmits mental conceptions across time. So does having
the physical object and reverse-engineering it. The best way of
course, is actually doing it.
- Rabbit Teeth
- The phenomenon of very narrow dental arches due to premolar
extractions.
- Group Feeling
- The affection that people in a group have for one another to
collaborate and labor for each other. It can be enhanced by walls,
blood, mission, outside enemies, and shared values. Shared
experiences also increase group feeling.
- Foldy Ears/Smooth Ears
- Another term for intelligence or lack of it.
- The Minimum Standard
- The minimum standard of quality in something by which further
optimization has diminishing returns.
- Admit Reality/Deny Reality
- To accurately perceive and interpret the world or to be delusional.
- Bottom-up Organization; Top-down Diffusion
- The process by which information from the edges reaches the center
and then goes back to the edges. The first half is broken in many
places. Example: Costco orange juice has mold on the cap. No easy
way to report it to the center online.
- Drive-up Accident
- When a car drives up closely to another car, hitting it in the back.
- Side-collision Accident/Right Angle Collision
- A right-angle collision, also known as a broadside collision, is a
subset of a side-collision accident.
- ATAF
- Assumed true, actually false. (Type 1 error/false positive). The
actual terminology for these words are confusing. What does "Type 1"
even mean? Example: assume someone has COVID, but they don't.
- AFAT
- Assumed false, actually true. (Type 2 error/false negative)