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Mental Models

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MIT Press

How New Ideas Arise

7 min · Jan 26th · Architect and poet Paolo Belardi traces the many conditions and situations that have inspired extraordinary ideas across the arts and sciences. · Shared by 579, including ⛓ José Luis Núñez ⛓, Ines Bieler, Jacob du Toit, Toso, tektology
innovation
creativity
Frontera ♦️

Uncertainty Matrix: How To Deal With Uncertainty (And Gain From It)

3 min · 2022-12-26 · There are four degrees of uncertainty. And knowing them can give you an edge in business and life. Here's how to use the Uncertainty Matrix. · Shared by 791, including Ines Bieler, Jacob du Toit
better living
learning
business
decision making
mental models
frameworks
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​Research shows uncertainty is even more stressful than knowing a bad outcome.
bridgespan.org

RAPID Decision-Making: What It Is, Why We Like It, and How to Get the Most Out of It

From 2019 · Shared by 12, including René Pfitzner, Jacob du Toit
Farnam Street

First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge

17+ min · 2021-11-03 · First Principles tinking breaks down true understanding into building blocks we can reassemble. It turns out most of us don’t know as much as we think we do. · Shared by 126, including Essaadi, Daron Larson, Teresa Torres, Andrei Luca, Jacob du Toit, terheyden, Christina
psychology
brain
productivity
Farnam Street

Peter Bevelin on Seeking Wisdom, Mental Models, Learning, and a Lot More

19+ min · 2021-11-02 · In this exclusive interview, Peter Bevelin discusses using mental models to make better decisions, seeking wisdom, reading, and a few other lessons. · Shared by 146, including Essaadi, Jacob du Toit, Henneke Duistermaat
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I was dumb and wanted to be less dumb.
Farnam Street

Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform

3 min · 2021-11-04 · Second-order thinking is a mental model that smart people like Warren Buffett & Howard Marks use to avoid problems. Read this article to learn how it works. · Shared by 66, including Jacob du Toit, Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්, Martin Soorjoo
tiktok.com

Investments on TikTok

2022-06-14 · Innovation #simonsinek #motivational #entrepreneur #motivationalclip #motivation #success #mindset #motivati #entrepreneurialmindset #successful #ceo · Shared by 4, including Jacob du Toit
untools.co

Tools for better thinking

From 2020 · Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems. · Shared by 351, including ThomNagy, Christian Müller, Scott Williams, Rick Ramos, Victor Lee, Jess 🇺🇦, Hannah Milan, Gio Tiongson, Jesús Torres 👩‍💻, Katja Evertz, Konrad Weber, Essaadi, Adham Dannaway, Esther Schindler, Lluís Codina, Helmi, Stef Walter @UXLx Lisbon, Nick Babich, Stephanie A Kowalski, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social
thinking
decision making
tools
systems thinking
frameworks
decisions
linkedin.com

(1) Core, Context, and the Future of Work

2021-08-10 · As we turn to constructing a new normal in our pandemic-inflected world, there is plenty of talk about the hybrid work model, but a lot of it lacks focus. I think the core/context framework, applied specifically to the future of work, can help. · Shared by 2, including Jacob du Toit
The StartUp

3 Frameworks For Making Complex Decisions

20+ min · From 2020 · Life is full of complex decisions: capital purchases, such as a car or a house, planning a vacation, choosing a new job, picking a product… · Shared by 8, including Matthias Lampe, Joel Bez, Jacob du Toit
product management
mindtools.com

TRIZ

6 min · From 2017 · TRIZ is a problem solving methodology based on logic, data and research, not intuition. · Shared by 7, including David Garner, Jacob du Toit, Tom Connor
Ness Labs

Parkinson’s law: how constraints can create freedom November 7, 2019 In Creativity

3 min · From 2019 · Parkinson's Law — "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion” — can be used to fuel your creativity and your productivity. · Shared by 20, including Steve Case, maxadorno, Jacob du Toit
Paul Graham

The Four Quadrants of Conformism

7 min · From 2020 · July 2020One of the most revealing ways to classify people is by the degree and aggressiveness of their conformism. Imagine a Cartesian coordinate system whose horizontal axis runs from conventional… · Shared by 22, including Tuur Demeester, Jacob du Toit
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Frameworks

4 min · From 2020 · A successful framework distills the complex, and in that distillation, gets to a timeless insight. That’s always my aspiration, to varying… · Shared by 26, including Francesco Corea, hiten.eth, Jacob du Toit, Gibson Biddle, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Marc Garriga, Sarah Tavel
Paul Graham

The Four Quadrants of Conformism

7 min · From 2020 · July 2020One of the most revealing ways to classify people is by the degree and aggressiveness of their conformism. Imagine a Cartesian coordinate system whose horizontal axis runs from conventional… · Shared by 164, including Elad Gil, jérémie Flück, Danielle Fong 💁🏻‍♀️, Joscha Bach, Bryan Onel, Max Roser, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Howard Getson, Marcel Salathé, Max Levchin, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Nir Eyal, davidabrock, Sam Altman, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Matt Taibbi, Christina Hoff Sommers, Andy Sparks, Chris Sacca 🇺🇸
anup.io

Invert, always, invert

2 min · From 2020 · man muss immer umkehren - Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi(loosely translated - Invert, always, invert) Today, we will look at one of my favourite mental models called - The Inversion principle. Mental models… · Shared by 34, including Jacob du Toit
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