Describe a Lever in Words and a Diagram
Section 2 of Chapter 5: Why the diagram succeeds when a sentence may fail, and how different modalities work in cognition?
mental-models
The seven biases that control your life
A structural breakdown of the seven cognitive patterns that quietly run your money, ambition, and execution. Seven lenses. One connected sequence.
The principles and laws you've never heard of
10 lesser-known principles that explain more about life than most books do
Hanlon’s razor
Price’s law
Unknown Knowns: Five Ideas You Can't Unsee — LessWrong
Merry Christmas! Today I turn an earlier LW shortform into a full post and discuss "unknown knowns" "obvious" ideas that are actually hard to discuss…
Do You Know What I Know?
Joshua Rothman writes about common knowledge and the book “When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .,” by Steven Pinker.
Where to begin? Brown bagging is one of those social practices that continues to feel senseless even after it’s been explained.
Common knowledge, he explains, isn’t just what we know but what we know is known. It’s different from “mutual knowledge,” which is held by multiple people but not openly.
Enhance Decision-Making With Control Systems
Master the art of decision-making with insights from control engineering. Learn how mental models can guide you through uncertainty.
67 Logical Fallacies Explained in 11 Minutes
Fallacies—notes Purdue's Writing Lab—'are common errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic of your argument. Fallacies can be either illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points, and are often identified because they lack evidence that supports their claim.
Mental Models
What users believe they know about a user interface impacts how they use it. Mismatched mental models are common, especially with designs that try something new.
How To Prove Prevention Works
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm. Lisa: That’s specious reasoning, Dad. Homer: Thank you, dear. Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away. Homer: Oh, how does it work? Lisa: It doesn’t work. Homer: Uh-huh. Lisa…
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a…
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead. · GitHub
Tools for better thinking | Untools
Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.
People Have Very Different Understandings of Even the Simplest Words
Distinctive meanings for a word like “risk” can have a big impact on public messaging, especially when it comes to issues like climate change
14 Mental Models to Help You (And Me) Think Clearly, Rationally, and Effect
Here’s some good news: You can train your brain to think faster and work smarter.
Mental Models to Help You Cut Your Losses - By Annie Duke - Behavioral Scie
When should you hold 'em and when should you fold 'em? Use this set of decision-making tools to help you identify when it’s time to move on and find the courage to do so.
8 mental model design heuristics
Rules of thumb for producing learnable designs
Medium
“” is published by Gabriel Weinberg.
14 Mental Models to Help You (And Me) Think Clearly, Rationally, and Effectively
Here’s some good news: You can train your brain to think faster and work smarter.
Mental models
These are some mental models I find useful. They’re rooted in decades of experience of thousands of experts – a modern equivalent of folk wisdom. Mental models are useful to quickly and correctly reason about seemingly intractable problems. They require quite a bit of intuition…
Inversion and The Power of Avoiding Stupidity
Inversion is a powerful mental model to improve your thinking because it helps you identify and remove obstacles to success. Most of us tend to think one way about a problem: forward. Inversion allows us to flip the problem around and think backward.
Understand the world better with 35 concepts | Conceptually
Understand the world and make better decisions using concepts from psychology, philosophy, economics and other disciplines, delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday.
Medium
https://codingvc.com/the-value-of-data-part-3-data-business-models/
Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (~100 Models Explained)
The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...
https://blog.adioma.com/how-to-think-visually-using-visual-analogies-infographic/
The Profile Dossier: Charlie Munger, the Master of Mental Models
“Deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end."
Essential Japanese: The Mental Model [pdf]
Essentials Guide to Japanese: The Mental Model by Japanese Complete. Master Japanese, get started for free.
Patterns — Gordon Brander
This is my bag of tricks — loose notes, design patterns, rules-of-thumb, tools, cheatsheets, gimmicks, leverage points, descriptions of systems, key questions, risks, and unknowns.
Bookshelf — Gordon Brander
Good Synthesis is the Start of Good Sensemaking
When you're faced with uncertainty, the best thing you can do is analyse your inputs, synthesise a new model, and then destroy it to start over again.
Mental models for designers | Dropbox Design
Curious about product design at Dropbox? Here’s a look at tools we use for solving problems, making decisions, and communicating ideas.
A Framework for First Principles Thinking | Neil Kakkar
Leverage mental models to think better. First Principles Thinking is an excellent model for critical thinking. This post looks at how to practice First Principles Thinking with lots of examples.
Why “Many-Model Thinkers” Make Better Decisions
Organizations are awash in data — from geocoded transactional data to real-time website traffic to semantic quantifications of corporate annual reports. All these data and data sources only add value if put to use. And that typically means that the data is incorporated into a…
30 mental models to add to your thinking toolbox - Ness Labs
Mental models affect how we see problems and people. Depending on how you use them, mental models can be incredibly constructive or destructive.
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Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful — Medium
2019 UPDATE: Since this post came out, I co-authored a book about it called Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models.
The Science Behind Smarter Decision Making: 7 Mental Models To Know
Every one of us make dozens, if not hundreds of small to big decisions on a daily basis. Some don’t impact our lives at all, while some can change the outcome of our entire lives. Whether it’s trying to figure out which job you should take,
14 Mental Models to Help You (And Me) Think Clearly, Rationally, and Effect
Here’s some good news: You can train your brain to think faster and work smarter.