List of models (what are restrictions on how we can put together)

[theo-cox]

Outline of how buildings blocks combine into overall models, and the constraints and considerations around combining them.

I think this effort involves

Acceptance

• List of models
  • Get a list of all our existing lists of models #41
  • List of models 🚧2023-03-23 done a first pass of sketch with https://diginomics.io/notes/comparing-models
  • Taxonomy of models i.e. models listed by features / components We decided that taxonomy isn't helpful
• Finalized list of models with descriptions these are now on the site, pending minor adjustments
• Model descriptions (one notes page for each one and an index page) as above
• Guide to choosing a model: how context etc influences efficacy and feasibility We discussed this a lot and decided that decision trees are the best way to do this. These are TODO
  • Key principles/rules for combining building blocks, including mutual exclusivity and incompatibility Decided we likely aren't going to do this beyond the very high level paragraph contained in /concepts.md

[rufuspollock]

@theo-cox prompted by work in #41 i looked up our last work and i think that is also publishable as next post in series as aa "draft synthesis of possible models" or similar:

• here's the distillation we did as a table https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-MOMpNckbP8OPopHm73Bqsswcs8-5pL1Efqo0-27nuQ/edit#gid=824009710
• and here's the distillation as a drawing https://link.excalidraw.com/l/9u8crB2ZmUo/AS49XMqTYbf (and i also now remember how we thought of rating different options)

I think just putting this stuff up (maybe with a very small bit of polish and context) would be fine as a follow up post.

[theo-cox]

I have also added a more extensive decision tree type structure to https://excalidraw.com/#room=593eed26b94deea8a355,jxO0LGmHClWcDkg7eSbdTA - we can see if we want to use that also

[theo-cox]

@rufuspollock I've put together a summary blog here: https://github.com/life-itself/diginomics/blob/main/content/notes/comparing-models.md

[theo-cox]

WONTFIX. We're not going to do the decision tree for the moment, due to a shift in focus to the email guide idea (#72)

[rufuspollock]

@theo-cox hi, it wasn't my understanding that we weren't doing the decision tree ... I think worth splitting that to a separate issue so we can close.

Also to summarize what i thought the state of play was:

• We had overview of business models including schema, building blocks and some notes on constraints (this is concepts?)
• We did have a list of the major types of model (maybe at economy-scale?) which we had written up. Have we published these?
  • this would preferably include a mapping against our previous model categories we had had ...
• Finally, it would be good to do a review of what we have published and maybe tidy a bit
  • here's one example https://diginomics.io/notes/comparing-models - i think we were going to change to "business models" terminology