Confidence & Competence
Drag to advance through a domain. Watch the gap between what you know and what you think you know.
Phase
Novice
Confidence and competence track together. The edges of your knowledge are bright lines.
actual competence
felt confidence
novice drag to advance expert
Actual Competence
What you can do. Grows through deliberate System 2 work that eventually encodes into System 1 intuition.
Felt Confidence
What you believe you can do. Tracks competence early, then outpaces it as fluency creates the illusion of broader mastery.
The Gap
Widest at the moment of expertise. Least visible from the inside. Costliest at a phase shift.
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Interactive model of the Zone of Proximal Development. Manage the gap between comfort and panic.
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Trajectory Canon
How microscopic shifts in initial conditions produce macroscopic divergence over time.
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Leverage Visualizer
Shift the fulcrum to amplify effort into outcome.
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