A company of one,drawn.
My own work described in CompanyGraph — exactly as its files say, drawn as the graph those files form.
The same shape as the example on companygraph.io, except the company is not invented. Nothing here was written by hand: the page is generated from the model, at the commit named beside the figure — in the one language the model is written in. The rest of this page is bilingual.
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A solid line means owns. A dashed line means refers to by name. An outlined box is a folder, a filled square is a page. Click to bring it to the center.
What is in it
One profile and the experiences that belong to it. Over twenty-five years as entries, each with what was done and, where a role ended, why.
Skills that carry a level and evidence. A claim with no concrete evidence beside it is an error in the model, not a matter of taste.
Values and a vision that say where this is going. Every page names its source, and that source is this repository: a fact is corrected here and nowhere else.
What the company ships, and the words it means exactly. One product, the Mental Model itself, the features that say what someone can do with it, and the concepts it needs to say so — claim, evidence, document — each a page of its own that another can name.
Questions, worded the way people ask them. Each names the entries that answer it, so the chat at the foot of every page finds its way to them however a visitor puts the question.
The file behind the figure
The figure is drawn from one file on this site, model.json, and anyone may fetch it. It lists the entities — the identity, the profile, each experience, each skill and each value — and the edges between them, and it carries the commit and the repository named below even when no JavaScript runs.
The profile, the experiences and the skill levels are my own account of my work; the References table under an entry lists what someone else published, which is what that entry rests on.
Generated from robertblust/mental-model@HEAD — the repository the principles page is drawn from, itself an instance of CompanyGraph.