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Mental Model Omnibus

All models are wrong, but some are useful

The re-frame tutorials initially focus on the domino narrative. The goal is to efficiently explain the mechanics of re-frame, and to get you reading and writing code ASAP.

But there are other perspectives on re-frame which will deepen your understanding.

This section of the tutorial is a tour of these ideas.

If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves.
-- Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance