I did some work with a Design Anthropologist a while ago, in that field a Mental Model was used to describe how particular people think, and that was used to he

I did some work with a Design Anthropologist a while ago, in that field a Mental Model was used to describe how particular people think, and that was used to help solve their problems. That seems like a good use of the term. The way the term is used in the article, I would rather call a thinking style, or simply a way to think. I think there is value in them, but often they are pretty bloody obvious and not in anyway new. Circle of Competence is just playing to your strengths. Second Order Thinking is just imagining consequences. Generally they can be boiled down to a few question we can ask about a situation. What about this problem am I uncertain about? What assumptions am I making? How might I increase confidence in my solution? Anyway...they are here for a while.