Global Clarity

Here I list no BS, fair, least biased, most accurate perspectives on the state of the world. Goal is for anyone to formulate the most accurate model of geopolitical understanding.

Popular Media

• Timothy Snyder - [1]. Wikipedia - [2]. Only foreign recipient of the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science?
• Decoding Geopolitics - different experts interviewed.
• Inside Russia - First-hand experience, analysis. [3] - good insights on the politics of Russia by a person in exile. Cons - they do not believe in renewable energy as the future.
• Money and Macro - Researched analysis, expert interviews. [4] - a channel that includes debunking various myths and fact checking - typically regarding important macroeconomic topics. Their method of inquiry and fact checking seems sound.
• Work from thinktanks - Rand, Brookings, American Enterprise Institute, Tavistock. Look at their policies and see which are relevant today. Thinktanks appear to have major impact on the direction of civilization [5].

Other

• Richard Feynman - Richard Feynman’s Mental Models: How to Think, Learn, and Problem-Solve Like a Nobel Prize-Winning Polymath - [6]
• Tony Buzan - The Ultimate Book of Mindmaps [7]. Mindmaps are an integrative concept - they help you integrate. Its users are integrators - see p19 [8]. See Mindmaps.
• Michael Michalko - Cracking Creativity - on creative genius [9]

General Semantics

• 'Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back.'-[10]