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The Mental Model FAQ - Commoncog

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At the beginning of 2019, I wrote a series on Putting Mental Models to Practice. That series was an actionable summary of the judgment and decision making literature, and existed as a constructive alternative to my criticism of mental model writing in The Mental Model Fallacy. This post is a shortened version of the conclusions in my mental models series. It makes plain what is otherwise buried in a mountain of summarised information. I've taken some time to write this post because I wanted to dig further into Munger’s writing and world views. After about seven months of reading and research, I am satisfied that I got nothing significantly wrong in my original pieces. Read this if you don’t have the time nor the inclination to read the full series. A mental model is a simplified representation of the most important parts of some problem domain that is good enough to enable problem solving. (This definition is lifted from Greg Wilson’s book Teaching Tech Together here.) The origins of m

The Mental Model FAQ - Commoncog --> Close 0" class="border-t border-slate-100 px-4 pb-2 sm:px-7"> Enter at least 2 characters. Searching… = 2" class="divide-y divide-slate-100"> No results found. Ideas The Mental Model FAQ By Cedric Chin Table of Contents The thought of business school make you go ‘eww’? You’re in good company. 9,000+ investors and operators read Commoncog to sharpen their business acumen ... WITHOUT going back to school. Sign up for our newsletter and get a weekly dose of good business thinking (no BS guaranteed): Subscribe At the beginning of 2019, I wrote a series on Putti

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