Discussion on: Can you describe how you visualize or form mental models around your work?

[Mik Seljamaa 🇪🇪]

A great question, an exercise in metacognition! So I would like to give an overview of a game in abstract terms:

1. Looking at the most abstract level I can think about I define a set of elements
2. I check that there are no outliers if so, I set them apart for their own box
3. I look at interactions that are set to occur between the elements
4. I try to define what the aims of those elements are in the process of how things unfold on the time scale of system use
5. I try to imagine usecases and for the system
6. Any abusecases?
7. Any connection to similar models already existing and how will they fit into the general ecosystem of models?
8. I repeat this process to get a finergrained picture for each element

Applying the model to itself I see that outliers are simplicity and implementability as well as maintainability