Mind & Self
Mental Models & Famous Laws
A latticework for clearer thinking
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Mind & Self
A latticework for clearer thinking
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Most outcomes come from feedback loops and stocks, not lone events. Seeing the system makes intervention smarter and less heroic.
Antifragility
A property of systems that gain in capability or value from exposure to stressors, volatility, and disorder, going beyond mere robustness.
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Pareto principle
An empirical observation that for many outcomes, roughly eighty percent of the effects come from twenty percent of the causes.
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Mental model
A compact, transferable way of thinking, a lens for decisions.
Latticework
Munger: a small set of strong models from many fields, used together.
Inversion
Solving by avoiding failure modes instead of chasing success.
Opportunity cost
Next-best alternative forgone.
Sunk cost
Money/time already spent and unrecoverable.
Steelman
Strongest possible version of an opposing argument.
Antifragile
Improves under disorder, beyond just robust.
Second-order effect
Consequence of the consequence.