# "The Model" > [!CITE] All models are wrong, some are useful The world is overflowing with models and it is overwhelming to choose the *right* one. Architecture models, process models, all sorts of diagrams, charts and drawings. Everything is modelled, and there will be someone peddling it and making a profit. Often, we perceive models as being exclusive and unable to coexist. We have a need to put stuff into boxes and sorting into right and wrong is a crowd favorite. Fortunately, this is a false dichotomy. I see a model as a [[anomality/Lenses/Index|lense]], through which we can gain insights. More lenses will give more insights, and the challenge is not figured out which model is right or wrong, but rather what insights any given model can yield. Thus, I propose this model as another lense, another tool in your box that will help you see and think. ## On the Structure of Mental Revolutions My thinking is heavily inspired by The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn. As knowledge workers our mental models define everything. We can have many mental models. Part of our mental model of the system that we are working with could be: - **Our systems** are scalable - **Our systems** are robust - **Our systems** solve customer needs - **Our systems** are easy and safe to change In the above, there are many assumptions. Scalable to what degree? Is it so in a cost-efficient manner? On what timeline? What customers and what needs? Does it solve them equally well? Are there usecases we should deprecate or opportunities we are missing? We can also have mental models on self-perception, ethics, what are good engineering practices, how is our organization performing, why some comic universe is better than the other and so on. We also have a total mental model composed by our mental models on all things large and small. These mental models overlap, interact and influence each other. The goal of the model is to accelerate iterating on our mental models.