Data Compression
Jack Butcher, founder of Visualize Value, believes that a great name is the ultimate tool for storing and communicating complex ideas. "Build Once, Sell Twice," for example, encapsulates an entire business philosophy in just four words. This mental compression works like a data algorithm—it allows sprawling concepts to be distilled into concise language that's easily remembered and shared. Without this compression, you lose people's attention; they simply don't have thirty seconds to unpack complex terms like "deliberate practice."
As Balaji Srinivasan describes it, effective compression creates a "mental clothesline where I hang ideas among each other," forming a latticework that connects seemingly disparate concepts. Your vision becomes the compression algorithm that determines which mental models you adopt and how information gets stored for future use.
This can also be compared to a Latticework.