Finn Stäblein
← Lattice
Theme Epistemics
Source Mike Maples
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Tags learning, creativity, mental-models

Combinatory Play

Remix mental models across books and domains — with an LLM as cross-referencer — to find non-obvious connections.

Load books as a cross-referenced lattice of mental models and let an LLM combine them: have one thinker critique another’s framework, or fuse two frameworks into a third. The value isn’t the summary of any single book — it’s the non-obvious combinations that fall out when you force ideas from different domains against each other.

Why it matters: most originality is recombination. Tooling that surfaces cross-domain links turns reading into an idea multiplier instead of a stack of isolated notes.