Thinking Tools & Methods
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Farnam Street
The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
Farnam Street
20+ min read · Feb 27th · Peter Kaufman is one of the most successful businessmen of our time, and yet few people have ever heard of him. He’s the CEO of Glenair, an aerospace company based in California, and the editor of…
Farnam Street
Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed
Farnam Street
6 min read · Mar 1st · You can’t force yourself to think faster. If you try, you’re likely to end up making much worse decisions. Here’s how to improve the actual quality of your decisions instead of chasing hacks to speed…
Mission.org
Elon Musks’ “3-Step” First Principles Thinking: How to Think and Solve Difficult Problems Like a Genius
Mission.org
7 min read · From 2017 · By the age of 46 years old, Elon Musk has innovated and built three revolutionary multibillion dollar companies in completely different…
Farnam Street
Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Explained)
Farnam Street
20+ min read · From 2018 · 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 ...
junto.investments
339 Mental Models
junto.investments
Jan 10th · Mental models help us make sense. Make sense of things around us, why we exist, our actions, and the outcomes we face. Here are 339 models explained.
drk-wohlfahrt.de
Methoden
drk-wohlfahrt.de
1 min read · Feb 6th · Der DRK-Methodenbaukasten hilft Ihnen bei der Konzeption und Durchführung von Workshops - mit Methodenkarten und beispielhaften Workshop-Abläufen.
andymatuschak.org
How to write good prompts
andymatuschak.org
20+ min read · Jan 1st · Using spaced repetition to create understanding
Ness Labs
5 thinking tools to add to your metacognitive toolbox
Ness Labs
3 min read · Jan 13th · Bloom's taxonomy, DOVE brainstorming... Add these five thinking tools borrowed from education to your metacognitive toolbox.
Bret Victor
Explorable Explanations
Bret Victor
9 min read · From 2015 · What does it mean to be an active reader? An active reader asks questions, considers alternatives, questions assumptions, and even questions the trustworthiness of the author. An active reader tries…
medium.com
Optimize Your Backlog for Innovation with These Prioritization Frameworks
medium.com
3 min read · Jan 4th · Whether you’re at a startups or a large company, here are some tools for planning innovation from people who know way more than me.
Psychology Today
How to See the Blind Spots in Your Thinking
Psychology Today
4 min read · 2020-12-31 · What you don't know can hurt you.
email.getpocket.com
Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking
email.getpocket.com
2020-12-26 · Talking out loud to oneself is a technology for thinking that allows us to clarify and sharpen our approach to a problem
denzhadanov.com
How I read books: a guide on how to learn
denzhadanov.com
~15 min read · 2020-12-04 · Disclaimer: I’ve spend hours researching this topic and simplifying things for you.It gets a bit nerdy, but if you apply these techniques…
todoist.com
The Complete Guide to Time Blocking
todoist.com
~13 min read · 2020-07-12 · Everything you need to know to take back your workday from meetings, email, & busy work and protect time for what's truly important to you.
Ness Labs
Connected Papers: a visual tool for academic research
Ness Labs
3 min read · 2020-10-14 · I’m obsessed with thinking in maps: discovering and creating connections between ideas, adding nodes to a knowledge graph, finding patterns across distant areas of knowledge. However, the traditional…
