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Patrick Morgan's mental models

2 claims Patrick Morgan made fit 2 mental models. Most often: Make it real, The map is not the territory. Everything they said here.

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Make it real

Build a prototype; it settles arguments a description cannot.

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Moving from static design tools to prototypes in code has helped systems-level design work, because you cannot easily grasp the many combinations of states until you have something in some form of code.

  1. Patrick Morgan Product designer at Sublime Security doing that kind of work in like a static environment detached from the code was always way harder than it probably needed to be because you're think trying to think through like a ton of different combinations of states that are just hard to gro until you actually get something in some form of code to be able to understand whether your your idea even makes any sense at all Patrick Morgan - Building a custom prototyping playgroundyoutube.com · 18 Aug 2026 · 10:47 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    doing that kind of work in like a static environment detached from the code was always way harder than it probably needed to be because you're think trying to think through like a ton of different combinations of states that are just hard to gro until you actually get something in some form of code to be able to understand whether your your idea even makes any sense at all

    Watch from 10:47 plays here

    ↗Patrick Morgan - Building a custom prototyping playgroundyoutube.com

    18 Aug 2026 · video · 54m · spoken · machine transcript

The map is not the territory

Every model, word or plan is a simplified map of reality; useful when its structure matches, misleading when mistaken for the thing itself.

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Prototypes that look almost production-fidelity but are not quite right mislead people and open a communication gap.

  1. Patrick Morgan Product designer at Sublime Security I didn't want to mislead people by creating something that was like almost production fidelity but not actually production fidelity. and then I end up with this big communication gap of like people looking at something very high fidelity but it's not quite right and so they misinterpret Patrick Morgan - Building a custom prototyping playgroundyoutube.com · 18 Aug 2026 · 16:48 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    I didn't want to mislead people by creating something that was like almost production fidelity but not actually production fidelity. and then I end up with this big communication gap of like people looking at something very high fidelity but it's not quite right and so they misinterpret

    Watch from 16:48 plays here

    ↗Patrick Morgan - Building a custom prototyping playgroundyoutube.com

    18 Aug 2026 · video · 54m · spoken · machine transcript