Mapping vs. Packing vs. Story thinking

macking_packing_story.md

	Thinking in Maps	Thinking in Packages	Thinking in Stories
Use it for	solving hard problems	absorbing new information fast, when "deep" understanding is not needed	explaining stuff
	exploring new problems or even new domains	having easily communicable information at hand	selling
	out-of-the-box non-linear reasoning	giving easy to follow instructions	convincing
	making sense of LARGE amounts of highly distilled information	first-phase of learning something new, if speed matters more than deeper understanding	manipulating people
	learning new and complicated stuff		small volumes of information
	exploring an un-familiar domain		un-distilled information that needs to be conveyed in its current form
Bad for	guiding people along a most efficient predetermined path	solving hard problems	transmitting information unambiguosly
	manipulating people towards a pre-determined destination	creative problem solving	avoiding less-than-rational thinking
	explaining stuff to people unfamiliar with the domain (they can easily get lost because there are too many paths on the map)	large quantities of information (can't find the right stuff because there are too many packages)	large quantities of information (the story becomes too long and confusing)
			figuring out high-level design mistakes (you can miss the forest because of the talking trees)
			highly distilled information (the story's details can obscure the main point)