Global Clarity
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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.
Contents
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.
Thinktanks
- 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].
- CSIS -
- Renew Democracy Initiative
Solutions
- Solving Geopolitics - based on Decoding Geopolitics, applying thinktank knowledge to an execution arm based on open source collaboration. For example, for China, we propose open source design instead of invading Taiwan. For the USA, we propose open source design so everyone pays only for value.
Individuals With Explicit Intent of Clarifying Mental Models of Reality
- Nicholas Tenzer - [6]. "Analysis is meaningful only if accompanied by a draft road-map."
Other
- Richard Feynman - Richard Feynman’s Mental Models: How to Think, Learn, and Problem-Solve Like a Nobel Prize-Winning Polymath - [7]
- Tony Buzan - The Ultimate Book of Mindmaps [8]. Mindmaps are an integrative concept - they help you integrate. Its users are integrators - see p19 [9]. See Mindmaps.
- Michael Michalko - Cracking Creativity - on creative genius [10]
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.'-[11]
