Mental Models

Examples

1. Additive and Multiplicative Systems

OSE Specific

• 9 Forms of Capital
• Distributive vs Redistributive

Collections

• Farnam Street List - [1]- looks better than Weinberg below. Here's the deal: on

Problem Solving

• "I don’t want to be a great-problem-solver. I want to avoid problems – prevent them from happening and doing right from the beginning." — Peter Bevelin on Seeking Wisdom, Mental Models, Learning, and a Lot More

Books

• Super Thinking by Gabriel Weinberg (founder of DuckDuckGo) - [2]. Reviews - [3]. Critical review - [Over long passages it feels the author copy-pasted from Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly, Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, etc. for his own notebook and decided to publish it afterwards.]

Links

• Logical Fallacies
• General Semantics - states that all we have are mental models - they are all abstractions of reality. This is the seminal work for driving ourselves sane.