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Oct 01, 2025
5-2d1 Procrastinators often follow exactly the wrong track. They try to minimize their commitments, assuming that if they have only a few things to do, they will quit procrastinating and get them done.
- MentalModels
Sep 27, 2025
10-2g1f3 We can only figure out what they know by what they do ('performance'), because we can never directly study what people know ('competence'). To assert that we can is a common error in thinking.
Sep 19, 2025
5-1b1a8 ‘Opportunity cost' and 'comparative advantage' must be rooted in explanations. Never use them as ad hoc criteria.
- MentalModels
- develop
Sep 19, 2025
4-1e1 Loss aversion - e.g., the prospect of competitor buying you, and having have to acquire you later at higher cost, are the two biggest concerns which motivate potential acquirers
- MentalModels
Sep 09, 2025
5-2c2b The Lindy effect
Aug 19, 2025
Sherlock Holmes
Aug 19, 2025
RUL3 - Love bad news. Always question to falsify your idea and theory. Invalidate ASAP. How fast you can invalidate matters as much as how fast you can build them. Rule out bad explanations.
- MentalModels
Jun 26, 2025
5-1b4b Compounding is usually too slow to notice. You have to be deliberate in how you think and what you see.
- MentalModels
- develop
Jun 24, 2025
3-1c3c5 Best of all is when you can say they would’ve found this had they taken their own ideas seriously
- MentalModels
Jun 21, 2025
3-1c3c3a Realize that having invested time in something doesn't make it good. There is no necessary correlation between the time you put in and its usefulness.
- MentalModels
Jun 17, 2025
1-1c6a1d In the absence of evidence, do not assume miracles
- MentalModels
Jun 16, 2025
4-1a4b2a Silence can decontextualize-displace the negotiator from the negotiation
- MentalModels
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2t5b The term 'uncertainty principle' is doubly misleading because first of all fungibility is a physical fact and not uncertainty of anything, and second of all because it can be derived from more general principle of quantum physics
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- MentalModels
Jul 18, 2024
3-1a2 The problem itself doesn't care how it's solved. Everything should be structured around solving problems.
- MentalModels
- categories
Jul 18, 2024
3-1a4d 市場メカニズムにもノンマーケット・セクターにも根本的な大きな欠陥がある
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a2a When you make them say ‘no’ to anything, you make them feel as if they are in more control of the conversation
- MentalModels
Jul 18, 2024
4-1e Emphasize what they’ll miss out on, rather than what they can get
- MentalModels
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b2a The “Doubt-Avoidance Tendency” - people want certainty-predictability-control over accuracy-reality
- MentalModels
Jul 18, 2024
5-2c1 You perceive yourself by what you do repeatedly, just as you judge others by their routine behaviors.
Jul 18, 2024
5-3a Knowledge via new explanations is inherently creative and its effects are positive-sum, because it begets new problems to be solved
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- MentalModels
Jul 18, 2024
6-2a Addiction lessens one’s ability to experience joy in life.
- Spitznagel
- MentalModels
Jul 18, 2024
7-1e We ask ‘what is the rich doing’ because they are the ones who have the resource to experiment with to find ways to cheapen the means of production
- develop
- MentalModels
Jul 18, 2024
8-1c5 Look for Lollapalooza, or system equivalent of critical mass, or chemical equivalent of activation energy, alloying, and catalysts

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