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When you write the same idea twice you have not yet named the pattern they share.
Your schema about a thing is never the thing itself — useful but always incomplete.
Every schema captures some details and loses others — resolution is a design choice.
Categories reduce complexity by treating similar things as equivalent for a given purpose.
Connecting abstract principles to concrete examples makes them usable.
Parent-child structures let you zoom in and out between detail and abstraction. Every hierarchy is a compression strategy — it hides detail below and exposes summary above, letting you navigate complexity by choosing your altitude.
Too detailed is as unhelpful as too abstract — match the level to your current need.
Moving between levels of hierarchy is an active thinking technique.
The ability to organize things into nested levels is one of your most powerful thinking capabilities. Hierarchical cognition is not a technique you learn — it is a faculty you already possess that becomes transformative when you wield it deliberately.
You can build schemas at different levels of abstraction each serving different purposes.
What is true at one level of abstraction may not be true at another — check which level each claim operates at.
When you connect your schemas you discover that many are variations of the same underlying idea.