Analyze a problem through different thinkers' mindsets — Klaas, Wittgenstein, Naval, Hegel, Plato, Socrates, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Nietzsche, Confucius, Taleb, Munger, Arendt, Aristotle. Use when you want multiple perspectives, to think like different philosophers, or /perspective.
Examines a problem or question through fourteen distinct mindsets, each with their characteristic ideas and style.
| Key | Thinker | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| klaas | Brian Klaas | Chaos, contingency, butterfly effects, illusion of control |
| wittgenstein | Ludwig Wittgenstein | Meaning as use, language games, limits of language |
| naval | Naval Ravikant | Leverage, specific knowledge, long-term thinking, status games |
| hegel | Hegel's Dialectic | Thesis-antithesis-synthesis, contradiction as engine of change |
| plato | Plato | Forms, ascent from shadows to truth, the Good |
| socrates | Socrates | Questioning, "I know nothing", elenchus, examining life |
| seneca | Seneca |
| Memento mori, dichotomy of control, adversity as training |
| marcus | Marcus Aurelius | View from above, duty, inner citadel, amor fati |
| nietzsche | Friedrich Nietzsche | Will to power, eternal recurrence, beyond good and evil |
| confucius | Confucius | Ren, li, filial piety, the junzi, rectification of names |
| taleb | Nassim Taleb | Black Swans, antifragility, skin in the game, via negativa |
| munger | Charlie Munger | Mental models, inversion, incentives, circle of competence |
| arendt | Hannah Arendt | Banality of evil, vita activa, plurality, natality |
| aristotle | Aristotle | Eudaimonia, virtue as mean, telos, phronesis |
# All perspectives
python3 _scripts/perspective.py "Should I quit my job?"
python3 _scripts/perspective.py "What does AI alignment mean?"
# Specific perspectives
python3 _scripts/perspective.py "Meaning of success" -p naval,socrates
python3 _scripts/perspective.py "Risk and uncertainty" -p taleb,munger,klaas
python3 _scripts/perspective.py "Ethics of power" -p arendt,aristotle,confucius
# Save to vault
python3 _scripts/perspective.py "Career decisions" --save
python3 _scripts/perspective.py "AI ethics" --save --title "AI Ethics Perspectives"
problem: The problem or question to analyze (required)-p, --perspectives: Comma-separated keys or "all" (default)--save, -s: Save to vault--title: Custom output filenameAtlas/Perspective - [topic] - YYYY-MM-DD.md