The Multi-Model Mind: Meta-Rationality for Wardley Leaders
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Your AI safety team wants to pause deployment. Your product team sees competitive risk in waiting. The map shows a component that is custom-built and changing quickly. Which model should lead the decision? Usually, not just one. Wardley Doctrine already points in this direction with Use Appropriate Methods: avoid one fixed approach to delivery, governance, or mapping. This is where meta-rationality becomes useful. It is the habit of noticing when a method no longer fits and switching lenses without dropping discipline. Charlie Munger called this a "latticework of models." David Chapman describes it as meta-rationality: combine frames when reality refuses to fit one frame neatly.
