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• A Bad System Beats a Good Person mental-model
  
• A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure metaphor
  medicine → decision-making
• A Force Is a Moving Object metaphor
  embodied-experience → physics
• A Hard Row to Hoe metaphor
  agriculture → difficulty
• A La Minute metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior
• A Place to Wait metaphor
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• A Problem Is a Body of Water metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → causal-reasoning
• A Problem Is a Locked Container for Its Solution metaphor
  containers → causal-reasoning
• A Problem Is a Region in a Landscape metaphor
  journeys → causal-reasoning
• A Room of One's Own pattern
  architecture-and-building → organizational-behavior, software-abstraction
• A Schedule Is a Moving Object metaphor
  physics → time-and-temporality
• Abilities Are Entities Inside A Person metaphor
  containers → mental-experience
• Above Board metaphor
  seafaring → ethics-and-morality
• Accessible Green pattern
  architecture-and-building → organizational-structure
• Accidental Complexity metaphor
  intellectual-inquiry → software-programs
• Achilles' Heel metaphor
  mythology → network-security, argumentation
• Acting Compulsively Is Ingesting A Substance Compulsively metaphor
  compulsive-ingestion → mental-experience
• Acting On Is Transferring An Object metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Action at a Distance metaphor
  physics → software-programs
• Action Is Control Over Possessions metaphor
  economics → event-structure
• Action Is Motion metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Actions Are Self-Propelled Motions metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Activation Energy mental-model
  physics
• Active Is Alive metaphor
  life-course → event-structure
• Activities Are Containers metaphor
  containers → event-structure
• Activity Nodes pattern
  architecture-and-building → organizational-structure
• Adapter pattern
  hardware-compatibility → software-engineering, organizational-behavior
• Adaptive Cycle mental-model
  ecology
• Aegis metaphor
  mythology → governance, social-behavior
• Affection Is Warmth metaphor
  embodied-experience → love-and-relationships
• Against the Grain metaphor
  carpentry → social-dynamics
• Agent Swarm metaphor
  animal-behavior → artificial-intelligence
• Agile Is a Living System metaphor
  organism → software-programs
• AI Alignment Is Training an Animal metaphor
  animal-training → artificial-intelligence
• AI Hallucination Is Perception Disorder metaphor
  medicine → artificial-intelligence
• AI Is a Black Box metaphor
  containers → artificial-intelligence
• AI Is a Copilot metaphor
  aviation → artificial-intelligence
• AI Is a Magnifying Glass metaphor
  vision → artificial-intelligence
• AI Is a Mirror metaphor
  vision → artificial-intelligence
• AI Is a Pair Programmer metaphor
  collaborative-work → artificial-intelligence
• AI Is a Prosthesis metaphor
  medicine → artificial-intelligence
• AI Is a Spell Checker metaphor
  tool-use → artificial-intelligence
• AI Is a Tool metaphor
  tool-use → artificial-intelligence
• AI Is an Agent metaphor
  governance → artificial-intelligence
• AI Is an Iceberg metaphor
  natural-phenomena → artificial-intelligence
• AI Is an Intern metaphor
  social-roles → artificial-intelligence
• AI Is an Oracle metaphor
  religion → artificial-intelligence
• AI Research Is a Jumping Machine metaphor
  tool-use → research
• AI Safety Is Containment metaphor
  containers → artificial-intelligence
• Alchemy metaphor
  mythology → creative-process
• Alcoves pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction, organizational-behavior
• Alignment Is Physical Alignment metaphor
  physics → artificial-intelligence
• All Bleeding Stops metaphor
  medicine → decision-making
• All Day metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior
• All Warfare Is Deception mental-model
  military-history
• Amara's Law mental-model
  perception-and-cognition
• Amor Fati paradigm
  philosophy
• An Army Marches on Its Stomach metaphor
  military-history → organizational-behavior, logistics
• An Instrument Is a Companion metaphor
  social-roles → tool-use
• Analysis Paralysis metaphor
  medicine → decision-making
• Anchor Point metaphor
  fire-safety → decision-making
• Anchoring mental-model
  
• Anchoring Effect mental-model
  
• Andon paradigm
  manufacturing → organizational-behavior
• Anger Is a Heated Fluid in a Container metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → mental-experience
• Anger Is Heat metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Animals Are Moral Agents metaphor
  animal-behavior → ethics-and-morality
• Ansible Is Instant Communication metaphor
  science-fiction → computing, communication
• Antifragile mental-model
  resilience
• Antifragility mental-model
  resilience
• Apex Predator metaphor
  ecology → economics, organizational-behavior
• Apocalypse archetype
  religion → political-discourse, technology-criticism
• Appeal to Nature mental-model
  
• Applause Line metaphor
  theater-and-performance → political-discourse, argumentation
• Apprenticeship in Thinking metaphor
  education → learning-and-development
• Argument from Authority mental-model
  
• Argument Is a Building metaphor
  architecture-and-building → argumentation
• Argument Is a Container metaphor
  containers → argumentation
• Argument Is a Journey metaphor
  journeys → argumentation
• Argument Is Dance metaphor
  dance → argumentation
• Argument Is War metaphor
  war → argumentation
• Arranging Spaces, Perfecting Movements mental-model
  food-and-cooking
• Arrow's Impossibility Theorem paradigm
  mathematical-logic
• Art Is a Battle, a Mill That Grinds metaphor
  war → creative-process
• Art Is Making Something Better Without Knowing What Better Is paradigm
  visual-arts-practice → creative-process
• Art Is Never Finished, Only Abandoned mental-model
  visual-arts-practice
• Aspects Of The Self Are Distinct Individuals metaphor
  social-roles → mental-experience
• Assimilation and Accommodation metaphor
  biology → education, mental-experience
• At Loggerheads metaphor
  seafaring → argumentation
• Attachment as Bond metaphor
  materials → mental-experience, social-dynamics
• Attachment Styles mental-model
  folk-taxonomy
• Attack Surface metaphor
  war → security-analysis
• Attributes Are Entities metaphor
  physical-objects → event-structure
• Audit Trails Are Forensic Footprints metaphor
  forensics → network-security
• Augean Stables metaphor
  mythology → governance
• Authority Is Height metaphor
  spatial-location → authority-and-mentorship
• Availability Bias mental-model
  
• Availability Heuristic mental-model
  
• Bad Is Stinky metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Baklava Code metaphor
  food-and-cooking → software-programs
• Balance of Nature paradigm
  ecology → philosophy, environmental-policy
• Ball in a Pool metaphor
  physics → psychotherapy
• Banach-Tarski Paradox mental-model
  set-theory
• Bankrupt metaphor
  architecture-and-building → economics
• Barn-Raising metaphor
  collaborative-work → software-engineering, social-dynamics
• Base Actions on Current and Expected Fire Behavior mental-model
  fire-safety
• Batten Down the Hatches metaphor
  seafaring → event-structure
• Bayesian Updating mental-model
  probability
• Beachhead Strategy metaphor
  military-history → competition
• Beauty Is a Flower metaphor
  horticulture → aesthetics
• Behind pattern
  food-and-cooking → communication
• Beliefs Are Beings with a Life Cycle metaphor
  life-course → mental-experience
• Beliefs Are Fashions metaphor
  social-behavior → mental-experience
• Beliefs Are Guides metaphor
  journeys → mental-experience
• Beliefs Are Locations metaphor
  journeys → mental-experience
• Beliefs Are Love Objects metaphor
  love-and-relationships → mental-experience
• Beliefs Are Possessions metaphor
  economics → mental-experience
• Berserker metaphor
  mythology → social-control
• Best Carpenters Make the Fewest Chips mental-model
  carpentry
• Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea metaphor
  seafaring → event-structure
• Bicycle for the Mind metaphor
  embodied-experience → computing
• Big Ball of Mud metaphor
  embodied-experience → software-programs
• Big Brother Is Surveillance metaphor
  science-fiction → surveillance
• Bikeshedding metaphor
  architecture-and-building → collaborative-work
• Biodiversity Loss metaphor
  ecology → organizational-behavior, software-engineering
• Birthday Paradox mental-model
  probability
• Bitter End metaphor
  seafaring → event-structure
• Black Box metaphor
  systems-thinking → software-engineering, epistemology, artificial-intelligence
• Black Sheep metaphor
  animal-husbandry → social-identity
• Blast Radius metaphor
  war → security-analysis
• Blitzkrieg metaphor
  war → strategy
• Boat Anchor metaphor
  tool-use → software-programs
• Boil the Ocean metaphor
  natural-phenomena → collaborative-work
• Boiling Frog metaphor
  folklore → organizational-behavior, risk-and-uncertainty
• Boots on the Ground metaphor
  war → organizational-behavior
• Bottleneck metaphor
  containers → systems-performance
• Boundary Object mental-model
  social-dynamics
• Bounded Context pattern
  software-architecture → organizational-structure
• Brand metaphor
  animal-husbandry → economics
• Brave New World Is Technological Control metaphor
  science-fiction → social-control, technology-risk
• Breadcrumb Trail metaphor
  narrative → software-programs
• Break Down Barriers metaphor
  architecture-and-building → organizational-behavior
• Breaking the Fourth Wall metaphor
  theater-and-performance → narrative
• Brigade System paradigm
  food-and-cooking → organizational-structure
• Broadcast metaphor
  horticulture → communication
• Brooks's Law mental-model
  
• Buffer Overflow metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → memory-management
• Bug metaphor
  organism → software-programs
• Building Complex pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Building Edge pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Burnout metaphor
  fire-safety → psychology, organizational-behavior
• Bus Factor metaphor
  embodied-experience → shared-resources
• Business Ecosystem metaphor
  ecology → economics, software-engineering
• Butterfly Effect metaphor
  dynamical-systems → causal-reasoning
• By and Large metaphor
  seafaring → language
• C Casting metaphor
  manufacturing → type-system
• C Pointer metaphor
  embodied-experience → software-programs
• C String metaphor
  manufacturing → computing
• Calculated Risk metaphor
  military-history → decision-making, risk-and-uncertainty
• Call and Callback pattern
  food-and-cooking → communication
• Callback metaphor
  comedy-craft → argumentation, narrative, performance
• Canary Deployment metaphor
  mining → software-engineering
• Canary in a Coal Mine metaphor
  mining → risk-and-uncertainty
• Canary in the Coal Mine metaphor
  mining → safety-systems, risk-and-uncertainty
• Cancer Surgery Formula paradigm
  medicine → economics
• Capital metaphor
  animal-husbandry → economics
• Cargo Cult metaphor
  social-behavior → organizational-behavior
• Cargo Cult Programming metaphor
  social-behavior → software-programs
• Carrying Capacity metaphor
  ecology → economics, organizational-behavior
• Cascade of Roofs pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Cassandra metaphor
  mythology → social-behavior
• Casting Is Ninety Percent mental-model
  theatrical-directing
• Catalysts mental-model
  physics
• Catch and Store Energy mental-model
  
• Categories Are Containers metaphor
  containers → intellectual-inquiry
• Cathedral and Bazaar metaphor
  architecture-and-building → software-engineering, organizational-structure
• Causal Precedence Is Temporal Precedence metaphor
  time-and-temporality → causal-reasoning
• Causation Is Commercial Transaction metaphor
  economics → causal-reasoning
• Causation Is Control Over An Entity Relative To A Location metaphor
  governance → causal-reasoning
• Causation Is Control Over An Object Relative To A Possessor metaphor
  economics → causal-reasoning
• Causation Is Control Over Relative Location metaphor
  governance → causal-reasoning
• Causes And Effects Are Linked Objects metaphor
  containers → causal-reasoning
• Causes Are Forces metaphor
  embodied-experience → causal-reasoning
• Cease Dependence on Inspection mental-model
  manufacturing
• Ceiling Height Variety pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Center of Gravity metaphor
  war → competition, leadership-and-management
• Cerberus metaphor
  mythology → network-security
• Chain of Command metaphor
  military-command → organizational-behavior
• Chain of Responsibility pattern
  software-architecture → organizational-behavior, decision-making
• Chain of Thought Is Self-Talk metaphor
  mental-experience → artificial-intelligence
• Change Is Motion metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Change Is Replacement metaphor
  manufacturing → event-structure
• Change Of State Is Change Of Direction metaphor
  journeys → event-structure
• Character Is a Wax Seal metaphor
  quality-and-craftsmanship → psychology
• Character Is Conduct mental-model
  theatrical-directing
• Checklist Approach mental-model
  aviation
• Checks and Balances metaphor
  accounting → governance-and-oversight
• Chef de Partie metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior
• Chessboard Self metaphor
  puzzles-and-games → psychotherapy
• Chesterton's Fence mental-model
  architecture-and-building
• Chimera metaphor
  mythology → creative-process, biology
• Choice Point mental-model
  navigation
• Circle of Competence mental-model
  geometry
• Circuit Breaker pattern
  electricity → software-engineering
• Circulation Realms pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Clapter metaphor
  comedy-craft → communication
• Clean Pain vs. Dirty Pain mental-model
  
• Cleaning As You Go pattern
  food-and-cooking → software-programs, organizational-behavior
• Cleverness Is Quickness metaphor
  movement → intelligence
• Cloud metaphor
  natural-phenomena → computing
• Code Is Compressed Thought metaphor
  writing → software-engineering
• Code Smell metaphor
  embodied-experience → software-programs
• Cognitive Defusion mental-model
  psychotherapy
• Coherent Is Aligned metaphor
  embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry
• Coherent Is Whole metaphor
  embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry
• Collateral Damage metaphor
  military-history → decision-making
• Collect Your Whole Force mental-model
  military-history
• Come with Clean Hands metaphor
  purity → ethics-and-morality
• Comedy Is Truth and Pain mental-model
  comedy-craft
• Coming of Age archetype
  life-course → organizational-behavior, software-engineering
• Coming to Zero mental-model
  food-and-cooking
• Common Areas at the Heart pattern
  architecture-and-building → organizational-structure
• Commons metaphor
  shared-resources → governance
• Communication Is Linguistic Communication metaphor
  language → communication
• Communication Is Sending metaphor
  containers → communication
• Companion metaphor
  food-and-cooking → social-behavior
• Comparative Advantage mental-model
  
• Comparing And Seeking Is Shopping metaphor
  economics → decision-making
• Comparison of Properties Is Comparison of Physical Properties metaphor
  embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry
• Comparison of Properties Is Comparison of Possessions metaphor
  economics → intellectual-inquiry
• Competition Is 1-on-1 Physical Aggression metaphor
  war → competition
• Competition Is a Race metaphor
  journeys → competition
• Competition Is Competition for Desired Objects metaphor
  economics → competition
• Competition Is War metaphor
  war → competition
• Competitive Exclusion mental-model
  ecology
• Compliance Is Adherence metaphor
  physical-connection → rule-following
• Compliance Is Following metaphor
  journeys → governance
• Compliance Is Tightness metaphor
  embodied-experience → governance
• Composting metaphor
  agriculture → creative-process
• Compounding mental-model
  
• Compute Is a Resource metaphor
  economics → artificial-intelligence
• Computer Mouse metaphor
  animal-behavior → computing
• Computer Virus Is Biological Infection metaphor
  contagion → network-security
• Conceit Is Inflation metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Concentration of Force mental-model
  military-command
• Conducting Research Is Solving a Puzzle metaphor
  puzzles-and-games → intellectual-inquiry
• Confirmation Bias mental-model
  
• Confused Deputy paradigm
  authority-and-delegation → agent-security
• Connected Buildings pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Connection to the Earth metaphor
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Conscious Is Up; Unconscious Is Down metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Constancy of Purpose mental-model
  manufacturing
• Constraint Enables Creativity mental-model
  visual-arts-practice
• Containment metaphor
  containers → psychotherapy
• Context Window Is Working Memory metaphor
  mental-experience → artificial-intelligence
• Continuous Flow metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → manufacturing
• Contrarian Thinking mental-model
  
• Conway's Law mental-model
  
• Cookie metaphor
  food-and-cooking → computing
• Copper-Bottomed metaphor
  seafaring
• Cornucopia metaphor
  mythology → economics, social-behavior
• Courage Is Strength metaphor
  physical-strength → courage
• Creating Is Birthing metaphor
  reproduction → creative-process
• Creating Is Giving an Object metaphor
  economics → creative-process
• Creating Is Making metaphor
  manufacturing → creative-process
• Creating Is Making Visible metaphor
  vision → creative-process
• Creating Is Moving To A Location metaphor
  journeys → creative-process
• Creation Is Cultivation metaphor
  horticulture → creative-process
• Creative Destruction paradigm
  destruction → economics
• Creative Hopelessness mental-model
  psychotherapy
• Creative Process Is Construction metaphor
  architecture-and-building → creative-process
• Creative Process Is Gardening metaphor
  horticulture → creative-process
• Creative Works Are Food metaphor
  food-and-cooking → communication
• Critical Mass mental-model
  physics
• Cron Job metaphor
  economics → software-programs
• Cross-Pollination metaphor
  horticulture → organizational-behavior
• Cryonics Is Death Deferral metaphor
  science-fiction
• Cultivation metaphor
  agriculture → education-and-development
• Culture as a Control System paradigm
  physics → governance
• Cut and Run metaphor
  seafaring → social-behavior
• Cyberspace Is a Place metaphor
  spatial-location → computing
• Daemon metaphor
  mythology → computing
• Daemon Is a Background Spirit metaphor
  mythology → computing
• Damocles' Sword metaphor
  mythology → governance
• Dangerous Beliefs Are Contagious Diseases metaphor
  contagion → mental-experience
• Dark Forest metaphor
  mythology → social-behavior
• Darkness Is a Cover metaphor
  containers → vision
• Darkness Is a Solid metaphor
  physics → vision
• Dashboard metaphor
  travel → computing
• Data Flow Is Fluid Flow paradigm
  fluid-dynamics → data-processing
• Data Is Fuel metaphor
  natural-resources → artificial-intelligence
• Data Stream metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → computing
• Databases Are Warehouses metaphor
  logistics → data-processing
• Dead Code metaphor
  death-and-dying → software-programs
• Dead in the Water metaphor
  seafaring → event-structure
• Dead Man's Switch metaphor
  safety-systems → distributed-systems, information-security
• Dead Plate metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior
• Dead Sea Effect metaphor
  hydrology → organizational-behavior
• Dead Zone metaphor
  ecology → economics
• Deadline metaphor
  war → time-and-temporality
• Death and Rebirth archetype
  mythology → organizational-behavior, professional-development
• Death by a Thousand Cuts metaphor
  harm → organizational-decline
• Death Is a Journey metaphor
  travel → death-and-dying
• Death Is Departure metaphor
  journeys → life-course
• Decision Is a Path metaphor
  travel → decision-making
• Decisive Point metaphor
  war → decision-making, leadership-and-management
• Decomposition mental-model
  systems-thinking
• Decoy Effect mental-model
  
• Deep Magic metaphor
  mythology → software-programs
• Deep Reveals metaphor
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Deep Roots Are Not Reached by Frost metaphor
  agriculture → resilience
• Deep Space Is the Unknown Frontier metaphor
  exploration
• Defense in Depth metaphor
  war → security-analysis
• Defense Mechanisms metaphor
  war → psychotherapy
• Defense-to-Offense Transition pattern
  war → competition, organizational-behavior
• Defensive Programming paradigm
  fortification → software-programs
• Degrees of Publicness pattern
  architecture-and-building → information-security
• Demand Characteristics mental-model
  
• Demons on the Boat metaphor
  folklore → psychotherapy
• Design from Patterns to Details mental-model
  agriculture
• Desire Is Hunger metaphor
  food-and-cooking → mental-experience
• Desires Are Forces Between the Desired and the Desirer metaphor
  physics → mental-experience
• Device Driver metaphor
  travel → software-programs
• Devil's Advocate metaphor
  religion → argumentation
• Dichotomy of Control mental-model
  
• Different Chairs pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Differential Diagnosis metaphor
  medicine → decision-making, epistemology
• Difficult Subjects Are Adversaries metaphor
  war → intellectual-inquiry
• Difficulties Are Burdens metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Difficulties Are Containers metaphor
  containers → event-structure
• Difficulties Are Impediments to Motion metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Difficulty Is Moving metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Difficulty Is Weight metaphor
  weight → difficulty
• Diminishing Returns mental-model
  
• Director as Obstetrician metaphor
  medicine → theatrical-directing
• Disgust Is Nausea metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Disparity Is Change metaphor
  event-structure → event-structure
• Diversification mental-model
  risk-and-uncertainty
• Divide and Conquer mental-model
  
• DNS Domain metaphor
  governance → computing
• Do As Much Nothing As Possible metaphor
  medicine → decision-making, leadership-and-management
• Dog Whistle metaphor
  animal-training → political-discourse, communication
• Dogfooding metaphor
  animal-husbandry → software-programs
• Domino Effect metaphor
  games-and-play → causal-reasoning, risk-and-uncertainty
• Don't Cast Pearls Before Swine metaphor
  agriculture → evaluation-and-judgment
• Don't Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch metaphor
  agriculture → decision-making, economics
• Don't Let the Fox Guard the Henhouse metaphor
  agriculture → authority-and-delegation, governance
• Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket metaphor
  agriculture → economics, decision-making
• Don't Teach a Pig to Sing metaphor
  animal-husbandry → evaluation-and-judgment
• Double Listening pattern
  narrative → psychotherapy
• Dovetail metaphor
  carpentry → abstract-organization, planning-and-preparation
• Dragon Hoard metaphor
  mythology → economics
• Drinking the Kool-Aid metaphor
  social-behavior → collaborative-work
• Drive Out Fear mental-model
  
• Dropping the Anchor metaphor
  seafaring → psychotherapy
• Duck Typing metaphor
  folk-taxonomy → software-programs
• Dunbar's Number mental-model
  biology
• Dunning-Kruger Effect mental-model
  psychology
• Dying on the Pass metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior, software-engineering
• Dyson Sphere Is Megastructure Ambition metaphor
  science-fiction → physics
• Dystopia Is Social Warning metaphor
  science-fiction → governance, social-control
• Easter Egg metaphor
  puzzles-and-games → software-abstraction
• Ecological Arms Race metaphor
  ecology → competition, network-security
• Ecological Footprint metaphor
  ecology → economics
• Ecological Niche metaphor
  ecology → economics, organizational-behavior
• Ecological Resilience metaphor
  ecology → organizational-behavior, software-engineering
• Ecological Succession metaphor
  ecology → organizational-behavior
• Economic Moats mental-model
  war
• Ecosystem metaphor
  ecology → economics
• Edge Effect metaphor
  ecology → organizational-behavior, software-engineering
• Effect on Emotional Self Is Contact with Physical Self metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Effects of Humor Are Injuries metaphor
  embodied-experience → humor
• Eighteen Watch-Out Situations mental-model
  
• Eighty-Six metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior
• Einstellung Effect mental-model
  
• Eliminate Numerical Quotas mental-model
  measurement
• Eliminate Slogans mental-model
  
• Elysium metaphor
  mythology → social-behavior
• Emotion Is Motion metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Emotional Intimacy Is Physical Closeness metaphor
  embodied-experience → love-and-relationships
• Emotional Self Is A Brittle Object metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Emotional Stability Is Balance metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Emotional Stability Is Contact with the Ground metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Emotional Stability Is Maintaining Position metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Emotions Are Entities Within A Person metaphor
  containers → mental-experience
• Emotions Are Forces metaphor
  physics → mental-experience
• Emotions Are Locations metaphor
  journeys → mental-experience
• Emotions Are Weather metaphor
  weather → emotion
• Emperor's New Clothes metaphor
  mythology → social-control
• Entrance Transition pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Environment Variable metaphor
  embodied-experience → software-programs
• Environmental Impingement metaphor
  physics → nurturing-and-creation
• Equilibration metaphor
  physics → education, mental-experience
• Erosion metaphor
  geology → organizational-decline
• Escalation of Commitment mental-model
  
• Escape Route metaphor
  fire-safety → decision-making
• Euphemism Treadmill metaphor
  language → social-behavior
• Euphoric States Are Up metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Even Keel metaphor
  seafaring → mental-experience
• Event Structure (Location Case) metaphor
  journeys → event-structure
• Every Scene Is a Chase Scene metaphor
  pursuit-and-escape → theatrical-directing
• Every Soldier Carries a Marshal's Baton metaphor
  military-history → organizational-behavior, leadership-and-management
• Everyone Goes Home mental-model
  fire-safety
• Everything Is a File paradigm
  library-and-archive → data-processing
• Excalibur metaphor
  mythology → social-behavior
• Existence Is A Location metaphor
  journeys → event-structure
• Existence Is An Object metaphor
  physical-objects → event-structure
• Existence Is Having A Form metaphor
  physical-objects → event-structure
• Existence Is Life metaphor
  life-course → event-structure
• Existence Is Visibility metaphor
  vision → event-structure
• Expo pattern
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior
• External Appearance Is A Cover metaphor
  containers → embodied-experience
• External Conditions Are Climate metaphor
  natural-phenomena → event-structure
• External Events Affecting Progress Are Forces Affecting metaphor
  physics → event-structure
• Externalizing the Problem pattern
  narrative → psychotherapy
• Facade pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-engineering, organizational-behavior
• Facilitating Environment metaphor
  organism → mental-experience, learning-and-development
• Facts Are Points metaphor
  geometry → intellectual-inquiry
• Failure Isolation Is Quarantine metaphor
  contagion → software-engineering, systems-thinking
• Fallacies of Distributed Computing mental-model
  network-communication
• Fallow Period metaphor
  agriculture → creative-process, organizational-behavior
• False in One Thing, False in All paradigm
  governance → causal-reasoning
• Falsification mental-model
  
• Family of Entrances pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Fast Follower mental-model
  
• Fathom metaphor
  seafaring → intellectual-inquiry
• Faustian Bargain metaphor
  mythology → economics
• Fear Is Cold metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Fear-Driven Development metaphor
  social-behavior → collaborative-work
• Feed the Soil, Not the Plant metaphor
  agriculture → organizational-behavior
• Feedback Loop metaphor
  cybernetics → systems-thinking, organizational-behavior
• Feedback Loops mental-model
  physics
• Felt Sense mental-model
  
• Fermi's Paradox paradigm
  probability → decision-making
• Fight Fire Aggressively, Having Provided for Safety First mental-model
  fire-safety
• File Permissions metaphor
  governance → data-processing
• Filesystem Mount metaphor
  tool-use → data-processing
• Filesystem Root metaphor
  horticulture → data-processing
• Filesystem Tree metaphor
  horticulture → filesystem
• Filtered Light pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Fine-Tuning Is Specialization metaphor
  music → artificial-intelligence
• Finger Trap metaphor
  puzzles-and-games → psychotherapy
• Finished Is Up metaphor
  embodied-experience → time-and-temporality
• Finishing Actions mental-model
  food-and-cooking
• Fire metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior, software-engineering
• Firewall metaphor
  architecture-and-building → network-security
• First Do No Harm metaphor
  medicine → ethics-and-morality, decision-making
• First-Mover Advantage mental-model
  
• First-Principles Thinking mental-model
  physics
• First-Rate metaphor
  seafaring
• Five S (5S) pattern
  manufacturing → workplace-organization, software-engineering
• Five Whys mental-model
  manufacturing
• Flagship metaphor
  seafaring
• Flanking Maneuver metaphor
  military-history → competition, argumentation
• Flash It metaphor
  food-and-cooking
• Flexible Office Space pattern
  architecture-and-building → organizational-structure
• Fog of War metaphor
  war → decision-making, leadership-and-management
• Food Chain metaphor
  ecology → organizational-behavior, social-dynamics
• Force Is a Substance Contained in Affecting Causes metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → causal-reasoning
• Force Is a Substance Directed at an Affected Party metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → physics
• Foreseeable Future Events Are Up (and Ahead) metaphor
  embodied-experience → time-and-temporality
• Form Follows Function metaphor
  architecture-and-building → aesthetics
• Form Is Motion metaphor
  embodied-experience → geometry
• Foundation Model Is a Foundation metaphor
  architecture-and-building → artificial-intelligence
• Four-Story Limit pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Framework metaphor
  carpentry → abstract-organization
• Framing Effect mental-model
  
• Frankenstein archetype
  mythology → software-engineering
• Frankenstein Is Technology Risk metaphor
  science-fiction → technology-risk
• Free Rider metaphor
  transportation → collective-action
• Free Rider Problem mental-model
  economics
• Freelancing mental-model
  fire-safety
• Friction in War metaphor
  war → systems-thinking, leadership-and-management
• Front of House / Back of House metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior, software-abstraction
• Fruit of the Poisonous Tree metaphor
  horticulture → causal-reasoning
• Gaining Physical Intimacy (Against Resistance) Is a Competition metaphor
  competition → love-and-relationships
• Gambler's Fallacy mental-model
  probability
• Garbage Collection metaphor
  sanitation → software-programs
• Garden Growing Wild pattern
  horticulture → software-abstraction
• Gas Town archetype
  governance → artificial-intelligence
• Gateway metaphor
  architecture-and-building → software-engineering, organizational-behavior, network-security
• Gemba mental-model
  
• Genchi Genbutsu mental-model
  
• Generalist vs. Specialist mental-model
  
• Generation Ship Is Long-Horizon Institution metaphor
  science-fiction → governance
• Generativity metaphor
  biology → social-dynamics, leadership-and-management
• Genetic Engineering Is Biological Programming metaphor
  computing → biology
• Genie Out of the Bottle metaphor
  folklore → technology-risk, ethics-and-morality
• Getting Is Eating metaphor
  food-and-cooking → event-structure
• Gilding the Lily metaphor
  craftsmanship → writing, software-engineering
• Give Actions, Not Emotions mental-model
  theatrical-directing
• Give Wide Berth metaphor
  seafaring → social-behavior
• God Object metaphor
  religion → software-programs
• Goedel's Incompleteness mental-model
  
• Going-on-Being metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → mental-experience
• Golden Hammer metaphor
  tool-use → software-programs
• Golem metaphor
  mythology → rule-following
• Good Art Carries High Density of Choice mental-model
  visual-arts-practice
• Good Enough Mother metaphor
  manufacturing → nurturing-and-creation
• Good Is Up; Bad Is Down metaphor
  embodied-experience → embodied-experience
• Good Luck Reinforces Bad Habits mental-model
  fire-safety
• Good Materials pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Goodhart's Law mental-model
  
• Gordian Knot metaphor
  mythology → social-behavior
• Grabbing Attention vs. Rewarding Attention pattern
  visual-arts-practice → aesthetics
• Gradual Stiffening metaphor
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Grafting metaphor
  horticulture → organizational-behavior
• Green Wood metaphor
  carpentry → quality-and-craftsmanship, learning-and-development
• Grok metaphor
  science-fiction → software-engineering, learning-and-development
• Grok Is Deep Understanding metaphor
  science-fiction → intellectual-inquiry, computing
• Groundswell metaphor
  seafaring → social-behavior
• Groupthink mental-model
  
• Guardrails metaphor
  journeys → artificial-intelligence
• Guided Participation mental-model
  education
• Half-Hidden Garden pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Half-Private Office pattern
  architecture-and-building → organizational-structure
• Halting Problem paradigm
  computability-theory → decision-making, software-engineering
• Hammer and Nail mental-model
  
• Hand Over Fist metaphor
  seafaring → economics
• Hands pattern
  food-and-cooking → collaborative-work, software-engineering
• Hands as Thoughts metaphor
  embodied-experience → psychotherapy
• Hanlon's Razor mental-model
  tool-use
• Hansei mental-model
  manufacturing
• Happy Is Up; Sad Is Down metaphor
  embodied-experience → embodied-experience
• Hard Cases Make Bad Law mental-model
  governance
• Harm Is a Thorn metaphor
  horticulture → harm
• Harm Is Being in a Harmful Location metaphor
  spatial-location → event-structure
• Harm Is Causing Functional Objects to Be Nonfunctional metaphor
  manufacturing → event-structure
• Harm Is Having a Harmful Possession metaphor
  economics → event-structure
• Harm Is Lacking a Needed Possession metaphor
  economics → event-structure
• Harm Is Physical Injury metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Harm Is Preventing Forward Motion Toward a Goal metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Harming Is Lowering metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Hat on a Hat metaphor
  clothing → creative-process
• Having Control Is Up; Being Subject To Control Is Down metaphor
  embodied-experience → social-behavior
• Hawthorne Effect mental-model
  
• He Who Acts Through Another Acts Himself paradigm
  governance
• Health Is Up; Sickness Is Down metaphor
  embodied-experience → embodied-experience
• Hear the Other Side mental-model
  governance
• Heard pattern
  food-and-cooking → communication
• Heartbeat metaphor
  biology → distributed-systems
• Heartwood and Sapwood metaphor
  carpentry → organizational-behavior
• Hedging Your Bets metaphor
  gambling → risk-and-uncertainty, decision-making
• Heijunka paradigm
  manufacturing → organizational-behavior
• Heisenbug metaphor
  physics → software-programs
• Help Is Support metaphor
  embodied-experience → social-behavior
• Herculean Task metaphor
  mythology → event-structure
• Hero's Journey archetype
  narrative-and-storytelling → professional-development, organizational-behavior
• Hierarchy of Needs mental-model
  
• Hierarchy of Open Space pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• High and Dry metaphor
  seafaring → social-behavior
• Hilbert's Hotel mental-model
  set-theory
• Hit the Nail on the Head metaphor
  carpentry → argumentation, problem-solving
• Hive Mind Is Collective Intelligence metaphor
  science-fiction → social-behavior, artificial-intelligence
• Hofstadter's Law mental-model
  self-reference
• Holding Environment metaphor
  containers → mental-experience, organizational-behavior
• Holding Space metaphor
  containers → psychotherapy
• Holodeck Is Total Simulation metaphor
  science-fiction → computing, education
• Holy Grail metaphor
  mythology → journeys, intellectual-inquiry
• Homeostasis mental-model
  
• Honeybee Is Ideal Scientist archetype
  animal-behavior → intellectual-inquiry
• Hoofbeats, Think Horses mental-model
  medicine
• Hope Is a Beneficial Possession metaphor
  economics → mental-experience
• Hope Is a Child metaphor
  life-course → mental-experience
• Hope Is Light metaphor
  vision → mental-experience
• Hormesis mental-model
  
• Hoshin Kanri paradigm
  manufacturing → organizational-behavior
• Hot-Fix metaphor
  medicine → software-programs
• Hubris archetype
  mythology → social-behavior
• Hydra metaphor
  mythology
• Hydra Code metaphor
  mythology → software-programs
• Hyrum's Law mental-model
  contracts-and-law
• Icarus metaphor
  mythology
• Ideas Are Children metaphor
  life-course → intellectual-inquiry
• Ideas Are Commodities metaphor
  economics → intellectual-inquiry
• Ideas Are Cutting Instruments metaphor
  manufacturing → intellectual-inquiry
• Ideas Are Fashions metaphor
  social-behavior → intellectual-inquiry
• Ideas Are Food metaphor
  food-and-cooking → intellectual-inquiry
• Ideas Are Light-Sources metaphor
  vision → intellectual-inquiry
• Ideas Are Locations metaphor
  journeys → intellectual-inquiry
• Ideas Are Money metaphor
  economics → intellectual-inquiry
• Ideas Are Objects metaphor
  embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry
• Ideas Are People metaphor
  social-roles → intellectual-inquiry
• Ideas Are Perceptions metaphor
  embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry
• Ideas Are Plants metaphor
  horticulture → intellectual-inquiry
• Ideas Are Products metaphor
  manufacturing → intellectual-inquiry
• Ideas Are Resources metaphor
  economics → intellectual-inquiry
• Ideas Are Writing metaphor
  writing → intellectual-inquiry
• Identifiable Neighborhood pattern
  architecture-and-building → organizational-structure
• Identity Crisis metaphor
  medicine → mental-experience, social-dynamics
• Idols of the Cave mental-model
  architecture-and-building
• Idols of the Marketplace mental-model
  
• Idols of the Theatre metaphor
  performance → intellectual-inquiry
• Idols of the Tribe mental-model
  religion
• If You Don't Look, You Won't Find metaphor
  medicine → decision-making
• Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse paradigm
  governance → ethics-and-morality
• Illness Is an Invader metaphor
  war → medicine
• Importance Is Size metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Impostor Syndrome metaphor
  social-presentation → self-assessment, professional-identity
• Impression Management mental-model
  
• Impressions Are Visitors at the Door metaphor
  household-management → perception-and-cognition
• In Art, Remedy Mistakes by Taking Advantage of Them mental-model
  visual-arts-practice
• In the Doldrums metaphor
  seafaring → mental-experience
• In the Offing metaphor
  seafaring → event-structure
• In the Weeds metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior
• Incentive-Caused Bias mental-model
  
• Incident Command System paradigm
  fire-safety → organizational-behavior
• Incompleteness paradigm
  mathematical-logic → mathematical-modeling
• Indicator Species metaphor
  ecology → systems-thinking, organizational-behavior
• Infinite Monkey Theorem metaphor
  probability → reasoning-about-infinity
• Inflation Is an Entity metaphor
  embodied-experience → economics
• Influence Is Physical Force metaphor
  physics → organizational-behavior
• Information Asymmetry mental-model
  
• Information Overload metaphor
  logistics → decision-making, knowledge-management
• Inner Child metaphor
  family-and-kinship → psychotherapy
• Inspect and Correct mental-model
  food-and-cooking
• Insurance as Hedge mental-model
  insurance
• Integrate Rather Than Segregate mental-model
  agriculture
• Intelligence Is a Light Source metaphor
  vision → mental-experience
• Intense Emotions Are Heat metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Interaction Between Progress and External Events Affecting metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Interior Lines pattern
  military-history → competition
• Internal Working Model metaphor
  manufacturing → mental-experience
• Internalization metaphor
  containers → mental-experience
• Interpersonal Harmony Is Musical Harmony metaphor
  music → social-behavior
• Intimacy Gradient metaphor
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Intimacy Is Closeness metaphor
  embodied-experience → love-and-relationships
• Intoxication Is Becoming Electrified metaphor
  electricity → mental-experience
• Intoxication Is Getting A Burden metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Intoxication Is Getting Destroyed metaphor
  destruction → mental-experience
• Intuition Precedes Analysis mental-model
  visual-arts-practice
• Invasive Species metaphor
  ecology → social-dynamics, economics
• Inversion mental-model
  geometry
• Investments Are Containers For Money metaphor
  containers → economics
• Jailbreaking metaphor
  containers → artificial-intelligence
• Jenga Code metaphor
  puzzles-and-games → software-programs
• Jevons Paradox mental-model
  economics
• Jidoka paradigm
  manufacturing → organizational-behavior
• Jig metaphor
  carpentry → software-programs
• Jury-Rigged metaphor
  seafaring
• Just Tell the Story mental-model
  theatrical-directing
• Just-in-Time paradigm
  manufacturing → organizational-behavior
• Kaikaku mental-model
  manufacturing
• Kairos metaphor
  rhetoric → time-and-temporality
• Kaizen paradigm
  manufacturing → organizational-behavior
• Kanban paradigm
  manufacturing → organizational-behavior
• Karma metaphor
  mythology → social-behavior
• Kata paradigm
  martial-arts → organizational-behavior
• Keelhauled metaphor
  seafaring → social-behavior
• Kernel metaphor
  horticulture → computing
• Kernighan's Law mental-model
  intellectual-inquiry
• Keystone Species metaphor
  ecology → organizational-behavior, software-programs
• Kill Your Darlings mental-model
  
• Killing Kittens metaphor
  comedy-craft → creative-editing, writing
• KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) mental-model
  
• Knock-Down Joint metaphor
  carpentry → modularity, software-architecture
• Knotty Problem metaphor
  carpentry → difficulty, problem-solving
• Know the Ropes metaphor
  seafaring → intellectual-inquiry
• Know What Your Fire Is Doing mental-model
  fire-safety
• Know Your Enemy, Know Yourself mental-model
  military-history
• Knowing Is Seeing metaphor
  vision → intellectual-inquiry
• Knowing When Not to Operate metaphor
  medicine → decision-making
• Knowledge Is a Landscape metaphor
  cartography → epistemology, research
• Knowledge of Past Events Is an External Event Exerting Force On metaphor
  physics → mental-experience
• Koan metaphor
  mythology → hidden-knowledge
• Labor Is a Resource metaphor
  economics → collaborative-work
• Labyrinth metaphor
  mythology → governance
• Ladder metaphor
  tool-use → social-hierarchy, career, abstraction
• Lampshading pattern
  comedy-craft → narrative
• Latticework of Mental Models mental-model
  architecture-and-building
• Laughter Is a Substance metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → humor
• Lava Flow metaphor
  natural-phenomena → software-programs
• Law of Leaky Abstractions mental-model
  containers
• Laying Pipe metaphor
  plumbing → narrative-and-storytelling
• LCES mental-model
  fire-safety
• Leaves on a Stream metaphor
  natural-phenomena → psychotherapy
• Leeway metaphor
  seafaring
• Less Is More metaphor
  architecture-and-building → aesthetics
• Let Justice Be Done Though the Heavens Fall paradigm
  ethics-and-morality
• Let the Buyer Beware mental-model
  economics
• Let the Master Answer paradigm
  governance
• Let the Tool Do the Work mental-model
  carpentry
• Lethal Trifecta paradigm
  fire-safety → agent-security
• Letter vs. Spirit of the Law metaphor
  language → governance
• Leverage mental-model
  physics
• Leverage Point mental-model
  physics
• Life Is a Ball Game metaphor
  athletics-and-combat → ethics-and-morality
• Life Is a Banquet metaphor
  banqueting → philosophy, ethics-and-morality
• Life Is a Container metaphor
  containers → life-course
• Life Is a Gambling Game metaphor
  gambling → life-course
• Life Is a Game of Dice metaphor
  dice-and-games → ethics-and-morality
• Life Is a Journey metaphor
  journeys → life-course
• Life Is a Performance metaphor
  performance → life-course
• Life Is a Play metaphor
  theater-and-performance → social-presentation, ethics-and-morality
• Life Is a Story metaphor
  narrative → life-course
• Light Is A Fluid metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → natural-phenomena
• Light Is A Line metaphor
  geometry → natural-phenomena
• Light on Two Sides metaphor
  architecture-and-building → creative-process
• Lightning Rod Joke pattern
  comedy-craft → creative-review, negotiation
• Linear Scales Are Paths metaphor
  journeys → measurement
• Lingua Franca metaphor
  language → diplomacy
• Load-Bearing Pun metaphor
  architecture-and-building → comedy-craft
• Logic Is Gravity metaphor
  physics → intellectual-inquiry
• Logical Relations Are Causal Relations metaphor
  causal-reasoning → intellectual-inquiry
• Lollapalooza Effect mental-model
  physics
• Long-Term Purposeful Activity Is a Journey metaphor
  journeys → event-structure
• Long-Term Purposeful Change Is a Journey metaphor
  journeys → event-structure
• Looking-Glass Self metaphor
  optics-and-reflection → social-identity
• Loose Cannon metaphor
  seafaring → social-behavior
• Loss Aversion mental-model
  
• Love Is a Collaborative Work of Art metaphor
  creative-process → love-and-relationships
• Love Is A Journey metaphor
  journeys → love-and-relationships
• Love Is a Patient metaphor
  medicine → love-and-relationships
• Love Is a Physical Force metaphor
  embodied-experience → love-and-relationships
• Love Is a Unity metaphor
  embodied-experience → love-and-relationships
• Love Is Madness metaphor
  embodied-experience → love-and-relationships
• Love Is Magic metaphor
  magic → love-and-relationships
• Love Is War metaphor
  war → love-and-relationships
• Loved One Is A Possession metaphor
  economics → love-and-relationships
• Low-Hanging Fruit metaphor
  agriculture → productivity, decision-making
• Lust Is Heat metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Lustful Person Is an Activated Machine metaphor
  manufacturing → mental-experience
• Lustful Person Is an Animal metaphor
  animal-behavior → mental-experience
• Machines Are People metaphor
  social-roles → manufacturing
• Magic Number metaphor
  mythology → software-programs
• Main Entrance metaphor
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Main Gateways pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Mainstay metaphor
  seafaring
• Make Hay While the Sun Shines metaphor
  agriculture → decision-making, economics
• Making First Moves mental-model
  food-and-cooking
• Man with a Hammer mental-model
  tool-use
• Manure Is the Farmer's Gold metaphor
  agriculture → evaluation-and-judgment
• Map-Territory Problem metaphor
  cartography → mathematical-modeling, software-abstraction
• Margin of Safety mental-model
  architecture-and-building
• Master and Apprentices pattern
  architecture-and-building → education
• Mathematician Is a Machine for Turning Coffee into Theorems metaphor
  manufacturing → mathematical-practice
• Mayday mental-model
  fire-safety
• Means of Change Is Path over Which Motion Occurs metaphor
  journeys → event-structure
• Measure Twice, Cut Once mental-model
  carpentry
• Meeze Point mental-model
  food-and-cooking
• Memento Mori mental-model
  
• Memory Heap metaphor
  embodied-experience → memory-management
• Memory Leak metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → memory-management
• Memory Stack metaphor
  embodied-experience → memory-management
• Mental Accounting metaphor
  economics → mental-experience
• Mental Health Is Physical Health metaphor
  medicine → mental-experience
• Mentat Is Human Computer metaphor
  science-fiction → computing, intelligence
• Mentor metaphor
  mythology → education, social-roles
• Messages Are Physical Mail metaphor
  logistics → network-communication
• Metaverse Is Shared Virtual World metaphor
  science-fiction → computing, social-behavior
• Microservices Are Biological Cells metaphor
  biology → software-engineering
• Microservices Are City Districts metaphor
  governance → software-engineering
• Midas Touch metaphor
  mythology → economics
• Middle-Out Compression metaphor
  human-sexuality → data-processing
• Mind as a Radio metaphor
  broadcasting → psychotherapy
• Minimum Viable Product mental-model
  manufacturing
• Mirror Role of Mother metaphor
  vision → mental-experience, organizational-behavior
• Mirroring metaphor
  optics-and-reflection → psychotherapy
• Mise en Place paradigm
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior, productivity
• Model Outputs Are Prophecies metaphor
  religion → artificial-intelligence
• Money Is A Liquid metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → economics
• Monkey-Patching metaphor
  social-behavior → software-programs
• Monoculture metaphor
  ecology → organizational-behavior, software-engineering
• Monoculture Risk mental-model
  agriculture
• Monotropy mental-model
  biology
• Monty Hall Problem mental-model
  probability
• Moral Accounting metaphor
  economics → ethics-and-morality
• Moral Is to Physical as Three Is to One metaphor
  military-history → organizational-behavior, leadership-and-management
• Morality Is Accounting metaphor
  economics → ethics-and-morality
• Morality Is Cleanliness metaphor
  cleanliness → ethics-and-morality
• Morality Is Purity metaphor
  purity → ethics-and-morality
• Morality Is Straightness metaphor
  geometry → ethics-and-morality
• Morality Is War metaphor
  war → ethics-and-morality
• Mordor metaphor
  mythology → social-control
• More Is Up; Less Is Down metaphor
  embodied-experience → embodied-experience
• More Knowledgeable Other mental-model
  social-roles
• Mortise and Tenon metaphor
  carpentry → abstract-organization
• Mosaic of Subcultures pattern
  architecture-and-building → organizational-structure, social-dynamics
• Mr. Market mental-model
  social-roles
• Muda, Mura, Muri mental-model
  manufacturing
• Murphy's Law mental-model
  
• Muscle metaphor
  animal-behavior → embodied-experience
• Mutualism mental-model
  ecology
• Mutualism as Metaphor metaphor
  ecology → organizational-behavior, economics
• Nail It metaphor
  carpentry → quality-and-craftsmanship
• Narcissism metaphor
  mythology → mental-experience, social-behavior
• Nation Is a Family metaphor
  social-roles → governance
• Nation Is a Person metaphor
  social-roles → governance
• Natural Capital paradigm
  ecology → economics
• Natural Doors and Windows pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Natural Selection mental-model
  natural-selection
• Necessary Prerequisite for Change Is Source of Moving Entity metaphor
  journeys → event-structure
• Necessity Knows No Law mental-model
  governance
• Necromancy metaphor
  mythology → software-programs
• Needle in a Haystack metaphor
  agriculture → search-and-discovery
• Negative Space metaphor
  visual-composition → aesthetics
• Negative Space Is as Important as Positive Space pattern
  visual-arts-practice → aesthetics, creative-process
• Negative Visualization mental-model
  
• Nemawashi metaphor
  horticulture → organizational-behavior
• Nemesis metaphor
  mythology → social-behavior
• Network Effects mental-model
  network-communication
• Network of Learning pattern
  architecture-and-building → education
• Network Port metaphor
  travel → network-communication
• Network Socket metaphor
  tool-use → network-communication
• Neural Network Is a Brain metaphor
  biology → artificial-intelligence
• Never Do What the Enemy Wishes mental-model
  
• Never Let the Sun Set on Undrained Pus metaphor
  medicine → decision-making
• Newspeak Is Thought Control metaphor
  science-fiction → language, social-control
• Niche Specialization mental-model
  natural-selection
• Ninety-Nine Percent Done mental-model
  mathematical-estimation
• NIOSH 5 mental-model
  fire-safety
• No Free Lunch Theorem mental-model
  mathematical-optimization
• No One Gives What They Do Not Have mental-model
  governance
• No One Is Bound to the Impossible paradigm
  ethics-and-morality
• No One Profits from Their Own Wrong mental-model
  governance
• No One Should Judge Their Own Case mental-model
  governance
• Nonlinearity mental-model
  physics
• Normalization of Deviance mental-model
  risk-and-uncertainty
• Null Pointer metaphor
  embodied-experience → computing
• Obeya mental-model
  manufacturing
• Object Permanence mental-model
  physics
• Obligations Are Containers metaphor
  containers → ethics-and-morality
• Obligations Are Forces metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Obligations Are Possessions metaphor
  economics → ethics-and-morality
• Observe and Interact mental-model
  
• Observer Effect mental-model
  
• Obtain a Yield mental-model
  
• Occam's Razor mental-model
  tool-use
• Odyssey metaphor
  mythology → journeys
• Offers and Blocks metaphor
  improvisation → collaborative-work
• Old Growth vs. Clear-Cut metaphor
  ecology → organizational-behavior
• On the Fly metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior
• OODA Loop mental-model
  military-command
• Open Source paradigm
  software-engineering → collaborative-work, shared-resources
• Open Stairs pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Opportunities Are Objects metaphor
  physical-objects → event-structure
• Opportunities Are Open Paths metaphor
  journeys → event-structure
• Opportunity Cost mental-model
  
• Optimism Bias mental-model
  
• Optimization mental-model
  mathematical-optimization
• Organization Is Physical Structure metaphor
  architecture-and-building → abstract-organization
• Organizational Memory Is Archaeological Layers metaphor
  geology → organizational-behavior
• Ornament pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Orphan Process metaphor
  social-roles → software-programs
• Ouroboros archetype
  mythology → systems-thinking
• Over a Barrel metaphor
  seafaring → social-behavior
• Oxbow Lake metaphor
  geology → creative-process
• Palantir metaphor
  mythology → surveillance
• Panarchy paradigm
  ecology → systems-thinking, organizational-behavior
• Pandemonium metaphor
  mythology → social-behavior
• Pandora's Box metaphor
  mythology → social-behavior, governance
• Pandora's Box metaphor
  mythology → technology-risk, ethics-and-morality
• Panning for Gold metaphor
  mining → evaluation-and-judgment, decision-making
• Paperclip Maximizer Is Alignment Failure mental-model
  science-fiction
• Parasitic Architecture metaphor
  architecture-and-building → software-engineering, organizational-behavior
• Parasitism mental-model
  ecology
• Parasitism as Metaphor metaphor
  ecology → social-dynamics, economics
• Pareto Principle mental-model
  
• Parkinson's Law mental-model
  physics
• Passengers on the Bus metaphor
  transportation → psychotherapy
• Patch metaphor
  textiles → software-programs
• Path Dependence mental-model
  
• Paths and Goals pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Patina metaphor
  materials → aesthetics, software-engineering
• Pattern Language as Shared Vocabulary paradigm
  social-behavior → collaborative-work
• PDCA Cycle paradigm
  manufacturing → organizational-behavior
• Pendulation metaphor
  physics → psychotherapy
• People Are Batteries metaphor
  electricity → embodied-experience
• People Are Machines metaphor
  manufacturing → social-behavior
• People Are Plants metaphor
  horticulture → life-course
• Perception Is Reception metaphor
  physical-objects → embodied-experience
• Perception Is Shape Recognition metaphor
  geometry → vision
• Perfectionism mental-model
  psychology
• Permission Delegation Is Genetic Inheritance metaphor
  reproduction → software-engineering
• Permissions Are Keys metaphor
  physical-security → access-control
• Personality Is Material metaphor
  materials → mental-experience
• Peter Principle mental-model
  organizational-behavior
• Philosophy Is Medicine metaphor
  medicine → philosophy
• Phoenix metaphor
  mythology → event-structure
• Piecemeal Growth metaphor
  architecture-and-building → software-engineering
• Pied Piper archetype
  mythology
• Pioneer Species metaphor
  ecology → economics, organizational-behavior
• Pipeline metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → systems-performance
• Placebo Effect mental-model
  
• Plain Sailing metaphor
  seafaring → event-structure
• Plane It Smooth metaphor
  carpentry → quality-and-craftsmanship
• Planning Fallacy mental-model
  
• Planning Is Prime mental-model
  food-and-cooking
• Platform metaphor
  architecture-and-building → computing
• Pod People Are Conformist Replacement metaphor
  science-fiction → social-behavior, social-control
• Poison Pill metaphor
  toxicology → security-analysis
• Poka-Yoke paradigm
  manufacturing → organizational-behavior
• Polished metaphor
  carpentry → quality-and-craftsmanship
• Pollinator as Metaphor metaphor
  ecology → organizational-behavior
• Pools of Light pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Portfolio Theory mental-model
  risk-and-uncertainty
• Positive Outdoor Space pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Possessing Is Holding metaphor
  embodied-experience → economics
• Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Law metaphor
  governance → social-behavior
• Postel's Law mental-model
  diplomacy
• Potential Space metaphor
  spatial-location → mental-experience
• Potluck metaphor
  hospitality → collaborative-work
• Power Laws mental-model
  probability
• Praise the Ripe Field, Not the Green Corn metaphor
  agriculture → evaluation-and-judgment
• Predator-Prey mental-model
  ecology
• Premeditatio Malorum mental-model
  philosophy
• Prep metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior
• Presenting Problem metaphor
  theater-and-performance → psychotherapy
• Pride of Workmanship mental-model
  manufacturing
• Primary Maternal Preoccupation mental-model
  medicine
• Prime Directive Is Non-Interference metaphor
  science-fiction → governance, ethics-and-morality
• Principal-Agent Problem mental-model
  
• Prisoner's Dilemma paradigm
  game-theory → cooperation-and-trust
• Problem Is a Constructed Object metaphor
  architecture-and-building → causal-reasoning
• Problem Is a Tangle metaphor
  embodied-experience → causal-reasoning
• Problem Is A Target metaphor
  target-practice → causal-reasoning
• Problems Are Puzzles metaphor
  puzzles-and-games → intellectual-inquiry
• Process Fork metaphor
  journeys → software-programs
• Process Kill metaphor
  embodied-experience → software-programs
• Process Parent-Child metaphor
  social-roles → software-programs
• Process Sleep metaphor
  embodied-experience → software-programs
• Process Thread metaphor
  manufacturing → computing
• Process Trap metaphor
  embodied-experience → computing
• Procrustean Bed metaphor
  mythology → social-control
• Produce No Waste mental-model
  agriculture
• Production Data Is Food metaphor
  food-and-cooking → artificial-intelligence
• Prognosis as Forecast metaphor
  medicine → decision-making, economics
• Program Failure Is Bodily Failure metaphor
  embodied-experience → software-programs
• Prometheus archetype
  mythology
• Prompt Engineering Is Programming metaphor
  software-engineering → artificial-intelligence
• Prompt Injection metaphor
  medicine → agent-security
• Proof by Construction paradigm
  mathematical-proof → software-engineering, problem-solving
• Proof by Contradiction paradigm
  mathematical-proof → argumentation
• Proof by Exhaustion metaphor
  mathematical-practice → problem-solving, software-engineering
• Proof by Handwaving metaphor
  mathematical-proof → argumentation
• Proof by Intimidation mental-model
  mathematical-proof
• Properties Are Contents metaphor
  containers → event-structure
• Properties Are Physical Properties metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Properties Are Possessions metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Prosperity Is Plant Growth metaphor
  horticulture → prosperity
• Prototype mental-model
  manufacturing
• Proximity Maintenance mental-model
  spatial-location
• Proxy pattern
  representation → software-engineering, organizational-behavior, epistemology
• Pruning for Growth metaphor
  horticulture → organizational-behavior
• Psychohistory Is Predictive Social Science mental-model
  
• Psychological Flexibility metaphor
  materials → psychotherapy
• Psychological Forces Are Physical Forces metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Psychological Safety mental-model
  psychology
• Psychological States Are Warfare metaphor
  war → mental-experience
• Purposes Are Desired Objects metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Purposes Are Destinations metaphor
  journeys → event-structure
• Put Out to Pasture metaphor
  agriculture → organizational-behavior
• Pyrrhic Victory metaphor
  war → economics
• Quicksand metaphor
  geology → psychotherapy
• Quiet Backs pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction, organizational-structure
• Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes mental-model
  governance
• Race Condition metaphor
  competition → software-programs
• Ragnarok metaphor
  mythology → destruction, event-structure
• Ralph Wiggum Loop archetype
  social-behavior → artificial-intelligence
• Raptor Pit metaphor
  animal-behavior → collaborative-work
• Rational Is Up; Emotional Is Down metaphor
  embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry
• Re-authoring pattern
  narrative → psychotherapy
• Read the Grain metaphor
  carpentry → materials
• Receiving Serious Thought Is Being On The Mind metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• Reciprocity mental-model
  economics
• Red Herring metaphor
  pursuit-and-escape → argumentation, detective-fiction
• Red Pill Is Awakening metaphor
  science-fiction → hidden-knowledge
• Red Queen Effect mental-model
  natural-selection
• Red Tape metaphor
  materials → governance
• Redundancy mental-model
  architecture-and-building
• Regime Shift metaphor
  ecology → systems-thinking
• Regression to the Mean mental-model
  probability
• Rehab pattern
  fire-safety
• Rehearsal Is Not Performance metaphor
  theatrical-directing → learning-and-development, software-engineering
• Relationship Is Kinship metaphor
  social-roles → social-behavior
• Relationships Are Enclosures metaphor
  containers → love-and-relationships
• Replicant Is Artificial Person metaphor
  science-fiction → artificial-intelligence, ethics-and-morality
• Research Is Jumping in the Dark metaphor
  exploration → artificial-intelligence
• Reserves and Commitment mental-model
  military-history
• Resilience mental-model
  resilience
• Responsibilities Are Possessions metaphor
  economics → social-roles
• Risk a Lot to Save a Lot mental-model
  
• Risk Is a Triangle paradigm
  fire-safety → combinatorial-risk
• Robot Is Artificial Worker metaphor
  science-fiction → manufacturing, artificial-intelligence
• Roles Are Theatrical Costumes metaphor
  performance → access-control
• Rough Around the Edges metaphor
  carpentry → quality-and-craftsmanship
• Round Table metaphor
  mythology → governance
• Rubber Duck Debugging metaphor
  communication → software-programs
• Rubber Duck Solution pattern
  comedy-craft → problem-solving
• Rumpelstiltskin metaphor
  mythology → hidden-knowledge
• Running Out of Steam metaphor
  physics → embodied-experience
• Rupture and Repair mental-model
  psychotherapy
• Russell's Paradox paradigm
  set-theory
• Sacred Sites pattern
  architecture-and-building → organizational-structure
• Safe Haven metaphor
  seafaring → nurturing-and-creation
• Safety Zone mental-model
  fire-safety
• Sailing Close to the Wind metaphor
  seafaring → ethics-and-morality
• Salary metaphor
  materials → economics
• Sandbox metaphor
  playground → software-programs
• Scaffolding metaphor
  architecture-and-building → education, software-programs
• Scaffolding in Therapy metaphor
  architecture-and-building → psychotherapy
• Scale Economies mental-model
  physics
• Scaling Is Dilution metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → organizational-behavior
• Scapegoat archetype
  religion → social-dynamics, organizational-behavior
• Scattered Work pattern
  architecture-and-building → organizational-structure
• Scenario Analysis mental-model
  war
• Schema metaphor
  architecture-and-building → mental-experience, software-programs
• Scorched Earth metaphor
  military-history → competition
• Scuttlebutt metaphor
  seafaring → communication
• Scylla and Charybdis metaphor
  mythology → decision-making
• Seasoning metaphor
  carpentry → experience, professional-development
• Second Opinion metaphor
  medicine → decision-making
• Second-Order Thinking mental-model
  physics
• Second-System Effect mental-model
  software-engineering
• Secret Place pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Secure Base metaphor
  exploration → nurturing-and-creation
• Security Is an Immune System metaphor
  biology → security-analysis
• Security Violations Are Trespassing metaphor
  physical-security → network-security
• See First, Name Later metaphor
  visual-arts-practice → perception-and-cognition
• See One, Do One, Teach One pattern
  medicine → education
• Seed and Soil metaphor
  ecology → medicine
• Seeing Is Touching metaphor
  embodied-experience → vision
• Seeing Is Touching, Eyes Are Limbs metaphor
  embodied-experience → vision
• Self-Initiated Change Of State Is Self-Propelled Motion metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• Separate the Wheat from the Chaff metaphor
  agriculture → evaluation-and-judgment, decision-making
• Separation Anxiety mental-model
  natural-selection
• Serenity Prayer mental-model
  
• Servant Leadership paradigm
  leadership-and-management
• Services Are Autonomous Workers metaphor
  organizational-structure → software-engineering
• Sexuality Is An Offensive Weapon metaphor
  war → love-and-relationships
• Shadow Work metaphor
  light-and-darkness → psychotherapy
• Shapes Are Containers metaphor
  containers → geometry
• Shapeshifter archetype
  mythology
• Sharp as a Tack metaphor
  craftsmanship → perception-and-cognition
• Sharpening the Saw metaphor
  tool-use → professional-development, planning-and-preparation
• Shell metaphor
  horticulture → computing
• Sheltering Roof pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Shim metaphor
  carpentry → software-programs
• Shirky Principle mental-model
  organizational-behavior
• Shit Sandwich pattern
  comedy-craft → feedback-delivery, communication
• Shokunin paradigm
  carpentry → quality-and-craftsmanship
• Short Passages pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Shot across the Bow metaphor
  seafaring → communication
• Shotgun Debugging metaphor
  war → software-programs
• Show, Don't Tell paradigm
  narrative-and-storytelling
• Showing True Colors metaphor
  seafaring → social-behavior
• Shut Up and Calculate paradigm
  mathematical-practice → epistemology
• Side Effects metaphor
  medicine → decision-making, software-engineering
• Signal to Noise metaphor
  broadcasting → communication, data-processing
• Significant Is Big metaphor
  embodied-experience → social-behavior
• Silence metaphor
  music → communication
• Silence Gives Consent paradigm
  social-behavior
• Silo metaphor
  agriculture → abstract-organization
• Silver Bullet metaphor
  mythology → software-programs
• Similarity Is Closeness metaphor
  embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry
• Simpson's Paradox mental-model
  statistics
• Single Point of Failure mental-model
  
• Singularity Is Technological Transcendence metaphor
  science-fiction → artificial-intelligence
• Siren archetype
  mythology → decision-making, economics
• Siren Song metaphor
  mythology → decision-making
• Sisyphean Task metaphor
  mythology → event-structure
• Site Repair pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Sitting Circle pattern
  architecture-and-building → organizational-structure
• Size-Up mental-model
  fire-safety
• Skunkworks metaphor
  military-command → collaborative-work
• Sky and Weather metaphor
  weather → psychotherapy, emotion
• Skynet Is AI Apocalypse metaphor
  science-fiction → artificial-intelligence, technology-risk
• Slippery Slope metaphor
  spatial-motion → argumentation
• Slowing Down to Speed Up mental-model
  
• Small Panes metaphor
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Small Services Without Red Tape pattern
  architecture-and-building → organizational-structure, software-abstraction
• Small Work Groups pattern
  architecture-and-building → organizational-structure
• Smoke Detector metaphor
  safety-systems → risk-and-uncertainty
• Social Accounting metaphor
  economics → social-behavior
• Social Conflict Is War metaphor
  war → social-behavior
• Social Loafing mental-model
  
• Social Proof mental-model
  natural-selection
• Society Is a Body metaphor
  organism → social-roles
• Software Development Is a Bazaar metaphor
  marketplace → software-engineering
• Software Development Is Cathedral Building metaphor
  architecture-and-building → software-engineering
• Software Habitability metaphor
  architecture-and-building → software-engineering
• Software Peter Principle metaphor
  organizational-behavior → software-programs
• Software Rot metaphor
  embodied-experience → software-programs
• Something Roughly in the Middle pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction, organizational-behavior
• Sorcerer's Apprentice metaphor
  mythology → social-control
• Sorcerer's Apprentice metaphor
  magic → software-engineering, technology-risk
• Source and Sink Analysis paradigm
  fluid-dynamics → security-analysis
• Sous Chef metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior
• Sow Wild Oats metaphor
  agriculture → life-course, social-behavior
• Sowing Seeds metaphor
  agriculture → planning-and-preparation
• Space Colonization Is Business Expansion metaphor
  colonization
• Spaghetti Code metaphor
  food-and-cooking → software-programs
• Spam metaphor
  food-and-cooking → computing
• Spherical Cow metaphor
  mathematical-modeling → problem-solving, scientific-method
• Sphinx Riddle metaphor
  mythology → intellectual-inquiry
• Spice Is Scarce Enabling Resource metaphor
  science-fiction → economics, natural-resources
• Spike metaphor
  exploration → software-engineering
• Stacking Functions pattern
  agriculture → systems-thinking, software-engineering
• Stages of Development metaphor
  journeys → education, organizational-behavior
• Staging Environment metaphor
  theater-and-performance → software-engineering
• Staircase as a Stage pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Stakeholder metaphor
  gambling → governance
• Standardized Work mental-model
  manufacturing
• States Are Locations metaphor
  journeys → event-structure
• States Are Shapes metaphor
  geometry → event-structure
• Status Is Up; Lack Of Status Is Down metaphor
  embodied-experience → social-roles
• Status Transactions metaphor
  economics → social-dynamics, organizational-behavior
• Stdin, Stdout, Stderr metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → data-processing
• Stewardship metaphor
  household-management → governance-and-oversight
• Stock metaphor
  materials → economics
• Stone Soup metaphor
  folklore → collaborative-work
• Strange Loop mental-model
  self-reference
• Strangler Fig pattern
  ecology → software-programs
• Strategic Retreat metaphor
  military-history → competition
• Straw Man metaphor
  agriculture → argumentation
• Straw That Broke the Camel's Back metaphor
  weight → systems-thinking
• Street Windows pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Stretch It metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior
• Striking While the Iron Is Hot metaphor
  craftsmanship → decision-making, planning-and-preparation
• Strong Emotion Is Blinding metaphor
  vision → mental-experience
• Strong Emotions Are Madness metaphor
  madness → mental-experience
• Structure Follows Social Spaces pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Struggle Switch metaphor
  tool-use → psychotherapy
• Subjects Are Areas metaphor
  spatial-location → intellectual-inquiry
• Sugar-Coating metaphor
  food-and-cooking → communication
• Sunk Cost Fallacy mental-model
  
• Supply Chain Attack metaphor
  logistics → security-analysis
• Supreme Art Is to Subdue Without Fighting mental-model
  military-history
• Surgical Precision metaphor
  medicine → decision-making, war
• Survival of the Fittest paradigm
  natural-selection → competition
• Survivorship Bias mental-model
  cognitive-bias
• Switching Costs mental-model
  physics
• Symbiosis mental-model
  ecology
• Symbiosis As Metaphor metaphor
  ecology → organizational-behavior
• Symlink metaphor
  physical-connection → filesystem
• Sympatheia mental-model
  philosophy
• System Administration Is Feudal Lordship metaphor
  governance → software-engineering
• System of Profound Knowledge paradigm
  manufacturing → organizational-behavior
• System Resilience vs. Fragility mental-model
  architecture-and-building
• T-Shaped People metaphor
  geometry → organizational-behavior
• Take the Wind out of Someone's Sails metaphor
  seafaring → competition
• Take Your Own Pulse metaphor
  medicine → decision-making, leadership-and-management
• Taken Aback metaphor
  seafaring → mental-experience
• Takt Time mental-model
  
• Talk to the Character, Not the Actor mental-model
  theatrical-directing
• Tantalus metaphor
  mythology → mental-experience
• Tapestry of Light and Dark pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-engineering
• TCP Handshake metaphor
  social-behavior → computing
• Technical Bankruptcy metaphor
  economics → software-programs
• Technical Debt metaphor
  economics → software-programs
• Technical Decisions Are Judicial Rulings metaphor
  governance → software-engineering
• Technical Decisions Are Territory metaphor
  governance → decision-making
• Technology Is a Dark Mirror metaphor
  vision
• Temperature Is Creativity metaphor
  physics → artificial-intelligence
• Ten Standard Fire Orders mental-model
  fire-safety
• Terraforming Is Planetary Engineering metaphor
  science-fiction → colonization
• Terroir mental-model
  agriculture
• Tesler's Law mental-model
  physics
• The Absent but Implicit pattern
  narrative → psychotherapy
• The Abstract Factory Pattern archetype
  manufacturing → object-oriented-design
• The Adapter Pattern archetype
  hardware-compatibility → object-oriented-design
• The Anima / Animus archetype
  mythology → creative-tension
• The Ant Is the Pure Empiricist archetype
  animal-behavior → intellectual-inquiry
• The Archer metaphor
  archery → philosophy, ethics-and-morality
• The Body Is a Container for the Self metaphor
  containers → embodied-experience
• The Body Keeps the Score metaphor
  accounting → psychotherapy
• The Borg Is Assimilation metaphor
  science-fiction → social-behavior, computing
• The Bridge Pattern pattern
  civil-engineering → object-oriented-design
• The Builder Pattern archetype
  architecture-and-building → object-oriented-design
• The Chain of Responsibility Pattern archetype
  military-command → object-oriented-design
• The Chosen One archetype
  mythology → governance, social-roles
• The Command Pattern archetype
  military-command → object-oriented-design
• The Commons archetype
  animal-husbandry → shared-resources
• The Composite Pattern archetype
  architecture-and-building → object-oriented-design
• The Conduit Metaphor metaphor
  embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry
• The Cure Is Worse Than the Disease metaphor
  medicine → decision-making
• The Decorator Pattern archetype
  architecture-and-building → object-oriented-design
• The Divine Child archetype
  mythology → potential-and-emergence
• The Dog Tied to the Cart metaphor
  animal-husbandry → philosophy, ethics-and-morality
• The Drunkard's Walk metaphor
  probability
• The Duty Is to the Text mental-model
  theatrical-directing
• The Ensemble mental-model
  theatrical-directing
• The Event Structure Metaphorical System metaphor
  embodied-experience → event-structure
• The Exception Proves the Rule metaphor
  governance → causal-reasoning
• The Facade Pattern archetype
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• The Factory Pattern archetype
  manufacturing → object-oriented-design
• The Flow Through Rooms pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• The Flyweight Pattern pattern
  competition → object-oriented-design
• The Gateway Pattern archetype
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• The Great Chain of Being archetype
  ontological-hierarchy → social-roles
• The Great Mother archetype
  mythology → nurturing-and-creation
• The Helmsman metaphor
  navigation → philosophy, ethics-and-morality
• The Hero archetype
  mythology → social-roles
• The Internet Is a Mine metaphor
  natural-resources → artificial-intelligence
• The Interpreter Pattern archetype
  social-roles → object-oriented-design
• The Iterator Pattern metaphor
  travel → object-oriented-design
• The Jackpot Is Slow Apocalypse metaphor
  science-fiction → event-structure
• The Law Does Not Concern Itself with Trifles mental-model
  governance
• The Law Is Harsh but It Is the Law paradigm
  ethics-and-morality
• The Line metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior
• The Magic If mental-model
  theatrical-directing
• The Maiden archetype
  mythology → potential-and-emergence
• The Map Is Not the Territory mental-model
  cartography
• The Master's Eye Is the Best Fertilizer mental-model
  agriculture
• The Matrix Is Hidden Reality metaphor
  science-fiction → hidden-knowledge, social-control
• The Mediator Pattern archetype
  mediation → object-oriented-design
• The Memento Pattern archetype
  social-roles → object-oriented-design
• The Mentor archetype
  mythology → professional-development, authority-and-mentorship
• The Mind Is a Body metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• The Mind Is A Brittle Object metaphor
  embodied-experience → mental-experience
• The Mind Is a Citadel metaphor
  fortification → mental-experience
• The Mind Is a Jar of Water metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → perception-and-cognition
• The Mind Is A Machine metaphor
  manufacturing → mental-experience
• The Observer Pattern archetype
  surveillance → object-oriented-design
• The Obstacle Is the Way paradigm
  philosophy
• The Offensive Must Be Sustained mental-model
  war
• The One Ring metaphor
  mythology → governance
• The Painting Replaces Your Ideas with Its Ideas metaphor
  visual-arts-practice → creative-process
• The Pass metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior
• The Patient Is the One with the Disease metaphor
  medicine → decision-making, leadership-and-management
• The Persona archetype
  mythology → social-roles
• The Pipeline Pattern archetype
  fluid-dynamics → data-processing
• The Problem Is the Solution mental-model
  
• The Progress of External Events Is Forward Motion metaphor
  journeys → event-structure
• The Promontory metaphor
  geology → philosophy, ethics-and-morality
• The Prototype Pattern archetype
  manufacturing → object-oriented-design
• The Proxy Pattern archetype
  social-roles → object-oriented-design
• The Quality Without a Name metaphor
  architecture-and-building → software-engineering
• The Registry Pattern archetype
  governance → software-abstraction
• The Repository Pattern archetype
  library-and-archive → software-abstraction
• The Retrospectoscope mental-model
  
• The Rule of Six mental-model
  film-editing
• The Rush metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior
• The Self archetype
  mythology → integration-and-wholeness
• The Senex archetype
  mythology → authority-and-mentorship
• The Shadow archetype
  mythology → hidden-knowledge
• The Shapeshifter archetype
  mythology → social-roles
• The Shire metaphor
  mythology → technology-risk
• The Singleton Pattern archetype
  social-roles → object-oriented-design
• The Spider Is the Pure Rationalist archetype
  animal-behavior → intellectual-inquiry
• The State Pattern metaphor
  governance → object-oriented-design
• The Strategy Pattern archetype
  military-command → object-oriented-design
• The Template Method Pattern archetype
  publishing → object-oriented-design
• The Thing Speaks for Itself metaphor
  communication → causal-reasoning
• The Threshold Guardian archetype
  mythology → professional-development, organizational-behavior
• The Trickster archetype
  mythology → social-roles
• The Unit of Work Pattern archetype
  manufacturing → software-abstraction
• The Visitor Pattern archetype
  social-roles → object-oriented-design
• The Visual Field Is A Bounded Region metaphor
  embodied-experience → vision
• The Visual Field Is A Container metaphor
  containers → vision
• The Willing Suffer No Injury paradigm
  ethics-and-morality
• The Wise Old Man archetype
  mythology → authority-and-mentorship
• The Wrestler metaphor
  athletics-and-combat → ethics-and-morality
• Theoretical Debate Is Competition metaphor
  competition → intellectual-inquiry
• Theories Are Beings with Life Cycles metaphor
  life-course → intellectual-inquiry
• Theories Are Buildings metaphor
  architecture-and-building → intellectual-inquiry
• Theories Are Cloth metaphor
  textiles → intellectual-inquiry
• Theories Are Constructed Objects metaphor
  architecture-and-building → intellectual-inquiry
• Theories Are Covers for the Facts metaphor
  covers → intellectual-inquiry
• Theories Are People metaphor
  social-roles → intellectual-inquiry
• Therapeutic Alliance metaphor
  war → psychotherapy
• Thick Walls pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Things from Your Life pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Three Laws Is Ethical Programming metaphor
  science-fiction → artificial-intelligence, ethics-and-morality
• Three Sheets to the Wind metaphor
  seafaring → embodied-experience
• Ticket Rail metaphor
  food-and-cooking → organizational-behavior, software-engineering
• Till the Cows Come Home metaphor
  agriculture → time-and-temporality
• Time Is a Changer metaphor
  causal-agent → time-and-temporality
• Time Is a Container metaphor
  containers → time-and-temporality
• Time Is a Landscape We Move Through metaphor
  journeys → time-and-temporality
• Time Is a Limited Resource metaphor
  economics → time-and-temporality
• Time Is a Moving Object metaphor
  embodied-experience → time-and-temporality
• Time Is a Pursuer metaphor
  animal-behavior → time-and-temporality
• Time Is a Resource metaphor
  economics → time-and-temporality
• Time Is a River metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → time-and-temporality
• Time Is Money metaphor
  economics → time-and-temporality
• Time Is Motion metaphor
  embodied-experience → time-and-temporality
• Time Is Movement metaphor
  movement → time-and-temporality
• Time Is Stationary and We Move Through It metaphor
  embodied-experience → time-and-temporality
• Time Travel Is Historical Counterfactual metaphor
  science-fiction → causal-reasoning
• Tincture of Time metaphor
  medicine → decision-making
• Tipping Point metaphor
  ecology → social-dynamics
• Titration metaphor
  chemistry → psychotherapy
• Tongue and Groove metaphor
  carpentry → interface-design, standardization
• Too Much Freedom Inhibits Choice mental-model
  visual-arts-practice
• Tool Use Is Physical Manipulation metaphor
  embodied-experience → artificial-intelligence
• Tooling Up metaphor
  carpentry → software-engineering, planning-and-preparation
• Total Utilization mental-model
  food-and-cooking
• Tracer Bullet metaphor
  war → software-engineering
• Trade Is Slaughter metaphor
  killing → economics
• Tradition Unimpeded by Progress mental-model
  fire-safety
• Tragedy of the Commons paradigm
  game-theory → shared-resources, organizational-behavior
• Training Is Education metaphor
  education → artificial-intelligence
• Training Wheels metaphor
  cycling → learning-and-development, software-engineering
• Transference metaphor
  spatial-motion → psychotherapy
• Transitional Object mental-model
  
• Treat the Patient, Not the Test mental-model
  medicine
• Treating Illness Is Fighting a War metaphor
  war → medicine
• Triage metaphor
  medicine → decision-making, software-engineering
• Tricorder Is Universal Sensor metaphor
  science-fiction → medicine, measurement
• Tripwire metaphor
  physical-security → information-security
• Trojan Horse metaphor
  mythology → network-security, software-programs
• Trojan War archetype
  mythology → conflict-escalation
• Troll metaphor
  mythology → computing
• Trophic Cascade metaphor
  ecology → organizational-behavior, systems-thinking
• True Self / False Self metaphor
  performance → mental-experience, organizational-behavior
• Trust vs. Mistrust mental-model
  conflict-escalation
• Try a Different Tack metaphor
  seafaring → intellectual-inquiry
• Tug of War with a Monster metaphor
  games-and-play → psychotherapy
• Two-In, Two-Out pattern
  fire-safety
• Two-Track Analysis mental-model
  manufacturing
• Unconditional Positive Regard mental-model
  
• Understanding Is Grasping metaphor
  embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry
• Understanding Is Seeing metaphor
  vision → intellectual-inquiry
• Unique Outcomes pattern
  narrative → psychotherapy
• Unity of Command pattern
  military-command → organizational-behavior
• Unix Filter metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → data-processing
• Unix Pipe metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → data-processing
• Unix Shell metaphor
  containers → software-programs
• Unix Signal metaphor
  communication → software-programs
• Unix Tee metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → data-processing
• Unknown Is Up; Known Is Down metaphor
  embodied-experience → intellectual-inquiry
• Unwelcome Party Guest metaphor
  social-dynamics → psychotherapy
• Uploading Is Digital Immortality metaphor
  science-fiction
• Use Edges and Value the Marginal mental-model
  
• Use Small and Slow Solutions mental-model
  
• Use Your Own So as Not to Harm Another paradigm
  governance → ethics-and-morality
• Valhalla metaphor
  mythology → social-behavior
• Value Stream metaphor
  fluid-dynamics → manufacturing
• Values Compass metaphor
  navigation → psychotherapy
• Veneer metaphor
  carpentry → social-presentation
• Vestigial Structure metaphor
  biology → software-engineering, organizational-behavior
• View from Above mental-model
  philosophy
• Virtue Is the Art of Living metaphor
  craftsmanship → philosophy, ethics-and-morality
• Virtue Is Up; Depravity Is Down metaphor
  embodied-experience → social-behavior
• Virus metaphor
  medicine → computing
• Vital Signs metaphor
  medicine → decision-making, systems-thinking
• Vomit Draft metaphor
  biology → creative-process
• Voodoo Programming metaphor
  religion → software-programs
• Wabi-Sabi in Woodwork paradigm
  carpentry → aesthetics, software-engineering
• Waldo Is Remote Manipulation metaphor
  science-fiction → tool-use, manufacturing
• War on Two Fronts metaphor
  military-history → competition, decision-making
• We Are Puppets on Strings metaphor
  theater-and-performance → psychology
• Web metaphor
  animal-behavior → computing
• Weights Are Knowledge metaphor
  embodied-experience → artificial-intelligence
• Well-Being Is Wealth metaphor
  economics → mental-experience
• When Pigs Fly metaphor
  animal-behavior → time-and-temporality
• When You Hear Hoofbeats, Think Horses mental-model
  clinical-diagnosis
• Where There Is a Right, There Is a Remedy mental-model
  governance
• White Elephant metaphor
  economics → organizational-behavior
• Whitewash metaphor
  purity → social-presentation
• Window metaphor
  embodied-experience → architecture-and-building
• Window of Tolerance metaphor
  architecture-and-building → psychotherapy
• Window Place pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Windows Overlooking Life metaphor
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Wings of Light pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Without the Eye the Head Is Blind metaphor
  visual-arts-practice → perception-and-cognition
• Words Are Weapons metaphor
  war → communication
• Work Community pattern
  architecture-and-building → organizational-structure
• Work in Progress metaphor
  manufacturing → organizational-behavior, creative-process
• Work Should Look Easy, However Elaborate mental-model
  
• Working Through metaphor
  manual-labor → psychotherapy
• Workmanship of Certainty paradigm
  carpentry → quality-and-craftsmanship
• Workmanship of Risk paradigm
  carpentry → software-engineering, manufacturing
• Workspace Enclosure pattern
  architecture-and-building → organizational-structure
• World Tree archetype
  mythology → governance, ontological-hierarchy
• Worse Is Better paradigm
  natural-selection → software-engineering
• Yak Shaving metaphor
  animal-husbandry → software-programs
• Yes, And pattern
  improvisation → collaborative-work, organizational-behavior
• Yin and Yang metaphor
  mythology → integration-and-wholeness
• Yo-Yo Problem metaphor
  puzzles-and-games → software-programs
• Yokoten mental-model
  manufacturing
• You Can Always Take More Off, But You Can't Put It Back On mental-model
  carpentry
• You Can Lead a Horse to Water metaphor
  agriculture → authority-and-delegation
• You Can't Plow a Field by Turning It Over in Your Mind metaphor
  agriculture → decision-making, productivity
• You Cannot Create Results, Only Conditions mental-model
  
• You Reap What You Sow metaphor
  agriculture → ethics-and-morality, decision-making
• Young Doctors Kill, Old Doctors Let Die metaphor
  medicine → decision-making
• Zen View pattern
  architecture-and-building → software-abstraction
• Zeno's Paradox mental-model
  mathematical-reasoning
• Zero Gravity Is Weightlessness metaphor
  science-fiction → physics
• Zero Trust metaphor
  social-dynamics → network-security
• Zombie Process metaphor
  mythology → software-programs
• Zone of Proximal Development mental-model
  spatial-location