Ask HN: Do people pay for critical thinking frameworks?

Comments (5)

dedup · 6h ago

People don't, organizations do. I spent 25 years employed by large corporations, and for literally anything that claims to improve team morale, productivity, etc. there is always a sufficiently high-level person that once attended the training, reckoned it wasn't a total disaster, and hired the vendor to cater to their team to get a bullet point on the "team building" section of their performance review.

bwb · 6h ago

be careful though, they go out of fashion as your champion leaves the org...

rini17 · 7h ago

Such as?

max94morti · 6h ago

I don't have any good examples. it's just that there are a lot of complex concepts and phenomena around critical thinking, like scientific method, logic, bayes theorem, falsifiability, cognitive biases, and so on and I thought it would be useful to have a framework that takes all of that into account.

rini17 · 6h ago

Well there's epistemology, ontology, phenomenology. You can buy license for an ontology(I can recommend Gellish) but that's only kind of data model not whole framework. You'll need to look into the other ones to find something that fits, there isn't anything universal afaik.

Ask HN: What's your go-to message queue in 2025?

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

Ask HN: Anyone working in traditional ML/stats research instead of LLMs?

Ask HN: Do people actually pay for small web tools?

Is current state of querying on observability data broken?

Ask HN: Conversational AI to Learn a Language

Ask HN: Is there a "YouTube" for AI coded web apps?

Spent weeks building, not marketing

Xray: A full-behavior-chain anti-malware system built in Go by a student

SwipeJobs App – Tinder for Job Seekers

Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

GitHub turns on code security billing but you can't turn it off

Ask HN: Email Provider for Main Account?

Ask HN: How do you store private keys?

Ask HN: How do you store the knowledge gained in a day?

Best AI editor for local models?

Ask HN: How are you cleaning and transforming data before imports/uploads?

Ask HN: Did anyone else see an avalanche of old email appear in Gmail?

Ask HN: Our only salesperson was working for a competitor. Advice?

What do people use for on-call these days?

Ask HN: Any good tools to pgdump multi tenant database?

Symbolic Logic Based LLM

Ask HN: Why is no one making FILE_ID.DIZ anymore?

Ask HN: How would you fund a tech cooperative owned by workers and users?

Ask HN: Is Slack Down?

FlyLoop – AI Agent for Scheduling Meetings and Managing Your Calendar

iOS app that analyzes link behavior like nutrition label, no cloud, open source

Ask HN: Not sure about the future of tech

Ask HN: Did GitHub UI become unbearably slow?

Ask HN: Do people pay for critical thinking frameworks?

Comments (5)