Mental Models (2018)

85 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by hahahacorn

11 Comments

hahahacorn

11 hours ago

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17121145

Always a good read

dullcrisp

3 hours ago

The version from 2018 seems to have been replaced with an AI-generated copy of itself for whatever reason.

You can use the Wayback Machine to read the version that was originally discussed.

incognito124

9 hours ago

Bought his books, definitely the first time I was exposed to this sort of stuff. Great reads

aeon_ai

9 hours ago

FS was a major part of me getting into Munger and building out my web of mental models.

Will always be grateful to Shane for that!

iambateman

8 hours ago

Recommendations of things to read in that vein?

treetalker

4 hours ago

Books by Peter Bevelin (From Darwin to Munger etc.) or Rolf Dobelli are decent compilations. But mental models are everywhere. Taleb's books have a bunch. But start with what you have in front of you: pick one and actually apply it programmatically, then add to your repertoire one at a time.

aeon_ai

8 hours ago

The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger is a good place to start.

Shane's mental models books are packed with a lot of random/disparate domains/insights -- He's a good aggregator there.

Thinking in Systems by Meadows.

Really, once you go down the rabbit hole, you find new threads to pull. That's kind of the fun of it

TOGoS

10 hours ago

My mental model of a website that replaces the content with some 'sign up now' stuff while I'm trying to read it is that it deserves to get closed and never looked-at again.

piterrro

8 hours ago

My mental model is ignoring people who complain about free stuff

heliumtera

8 hours ago

Ohhhh it's free! Let's shove it up the arse!!!!

Yeah yeah, like someone is doing charity here.