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Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
018 | Mental Models 1: How To Have Better Ideas and Improve Your Thinking
Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
This is part 1 of a new series on Mental Models - tips, tricks, and tools to add to your mental toolbox. In this episode we introduce the concept of a mental model but then quickly dive in to explanations of the most powerful models we’ve encountered. Join us and learn how to make better decisions (or know when a decision is not worth making), how to have more original and impactful ideas (and how to find the most promising ideas to work on out of the thousands you’ll soon have), and when tidying up your messy desk is just plain wrong (sorry, Marie Kondo!)
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The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44245196-the-great-mental-models
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41181911-super-thinking
Feynman technique - https://fs.blog/2012/04/feynman-technique/
More Dakka by The Zvi - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/z8usYeKX7dtTWsEnk/more-dakka
Least recently used idea: read the book Algorithms To Live By by Brian Christian - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666050-algorithms-to-live-by
Eisenhower matrix - https://jamesclear.com/eisenhower-box
Josh Wolfe on Shane Parrish’s podcast - https://fs.blog/josh-wolfe/
Eliezer Yudkowsky’s marvelous introduction to Bayes Theorem. Seriously, read this: http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes
Tim Urban’s WaitButWhy post on thinking from first principles like Elon Musk: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/11/the-cook-and-the-chef-musks-secret-sauce.html
Deep Work by Cal Newport - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25744928-deep-work
So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13525945-so-good-they-can-t-ignore-you
Keep Your Identity Small by Paul Graham - http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
Joscha Bach on the Singularity podcast: https://www.singularityweblog.com/joscha-bach/
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