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 only competitive risk. The map shows the component is custom-built and evolving fast. Which model wins? If you choose just one, you’ve already lost. Wardley Doctrine already warns us to Use Appropriate Methods—avoid one-size-fits-all approaches to delivery, governance, or even mapping itself. That doctrine is a gateway into meta-rationality: the ability to notice when a formal method has hit its limits and to fluidly swap in different lenses without abandoning rigour. Charlie Munger called it a "latticework of models"; David Chapman calls it meta-rationality—the pragmatism of choosing and combining frames instead of worshipping one.
