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People and their mental models

Everyone here with at least 2 claims under a model, and which models their claims show. Each page keeps apart the models a person names from the ones we read into what they said.

• Shane Parrish 10 models · 44 claims · Hanlon's razor, Positioning, Circle of competence and 7 more
• Charlie Munger 8 models · 40 claims · Your own biases, Many models, not one, Incentives and 5 more
• David Heinemeier Hansson 8 models · 9 claims · Play long games, Bottlenecks, Cheaper means more, not less and 5 more
• James Clear 4 models · 9 claims · Many models, not one, Compounding, Learning machine and 1 more
• Julie Zhuo 7 models · 8 claims · Conventions (Jakob's law), Design is how it works, Feedback loops and 4 more
• Morgan Housel 4 models · 8 claims · Margin of safety, Probabilistic thinking, Compounding and 1 more
• Tim Urban 1 model · 8 claims · First principles
• Daniel Kahneman 2 models · 7 claims · Your own biases, Probabilistic thinking
• Gabriel Weinberg 1 model · 7 claims · Many models, not one
• Ray Dalio 5 models · 7 claims · Learning machine, Your own biases, Margin of safety and 2 more
• Alexandr Wang 5 models · 6 claims · Bottlenecks, Compounding, Exponential growth and 2 more
• Don Norman 2 models · 6 claims · Affordances and signifiers, You are not the user
• Paul Graham 5 models · 6 claims · You are not the user, Compounding, Exponential growth and 2 more
• Dieter Rams 4 models · 5 claims · Design is how it works, Conservation of complexity, Craft in the details and 1 more
• Dylan Field 3 models · 5 claims · Make it real, Taste is trained, Craft in the details
• Jason Yuan 3 models · 5 claims · Less, but better, Taste is trained, You are not the user
• Arvid Kahl 1 model · 4 claims · Moats
• Bill Ackman 3 models · 4 claims · Margin of safety, Incentives, Moats
• Casey Muratori 3 models · 4 claims · Speed is a feature, Network effects, Trade-offs
• Chamath Palihapitiya 3 models · 4 claims · Positioning, Learning machine, Margin of safety
• Craig Mod 1 model · 4 claims · Speed is a feature
• Jakob Nielsen 3 models · 4 claims · Conventions (Jakob's law), Affordances and signifiers, The map is not the territory
• Michael Nielsen 3 models · 4 claims · S-curves and diminishing returns, Bottlenecks, Specialise and trade
• Thiago Costa 3 models · 4 claims · Taste is trained, Craft in the details, Say no by default
• Ben Carlson 3 models · 3 claims · Compounding, Power laws, The map is not the territory
• Cory Doctorow 1 model · 3 claims · Lock-in and switching costs
• Derek Sivers 2 models · 3 claims · Say no by default, Your own biases
• Dylan Patel 3 models · 3 claims · Bottlenecks, Cheaper means more, not less, Speed is a feature
• Elon Musk 1 model · 3 claims · First principles
• Evan Spiegel 2 models · 3 claims · Moats, Network effects
• Guillermo Rauch 1 model · 3 claims · Speed is a feature
• Henrik Karlsson 3 models · 3 claims · Feedback loops, When a measure becomes a target, Your own biases
• Ian Silber 3 models · 3 claims · Make it real, Say no by default, Second-order thinking
• Jacob Trefethen 1 model · 3 claims · Bottlenecks
• Jamie Dimon 3 models · 3 claims · Leverage, Margin of safety, Power laws
• Jeff Dean 3 models · 3 claims · First principles, Taste is trained, Value moves to what stays scarce
• Jensen Huang 3 models · 3 claims · Bottlenecks, Everything decays without maintenance, Thought experiments
• John Maeda 2 models · 3 claims · Less, but better, Speed is a feature
• Marc Andreessen 3 models · 3 claims · Incentives, Learning machine, Probabilistic thinking
• Naval Ravikant 2 models · 3 claims · Many models, not one, Incentives
• Ryan Singer 3 models · 3 claims · Affordances and signifiers, Conservation of complexity, Design is how it works
• Steve Jobs 3 models · 3 claims · Less, but better, Taste is trained, You are not the user
• Tobias Lütke 3 models · 3 claims · Activation energy, Craft in the details, Feedback loops
• Adam Grant 2 models · 2 claims · Circle of competence, Say no by default
• Ajeya Cotra 1 model · 2 claims · When a measure becomes a target
• Albert Cheng 2 models · 2 claims · Compounding, Lock-in and switching costs
• Alfred Korzybski 1 model · 2 claims · The map is not the territory
• Andy Madrick 2 models · 2 claims · Craft in the details, Design is how it works
• Anil Dash 2 models · 2 claims · Lock-in and switching costs, Network effects
• Ben Kuhn 2 models · 2 claims · Everything decays without maintenance, First principles
• Bill Gurley 2 models · 2 claims · Power laws, Second-order thinking
• Boris Cherny 2 models · 2 claims · Make it real, Value moves to what stays scarce
• Brian Potter 2 models · 2 claims · Margin of safety, Power laws
• Charity Majors 2 models · 2 claims · Emergence, Feedback loops
• Daniel W. Drezner 2 models · 2 claims · Collective action problems, Trade-offs
• Dario Amodei 2 models · 2 claims · Exponential growth, Margin of safety
• David Crawshaw 2 models · 2 claims · Activation energy, Everything decays without maintenance
• Dax Raad 2 models · 2 claims · Exponential growth, Thought experiments
• Edsger W. Dijkstra 1 model · 2 claims · Less, but better
• Elizabeth Stone 2 models · 2 claims · Craft in the details, Specialise and trade
• Eric Ries 2 models · 2 claims · Emergence, The map is not the territory
• Ilya Sutskever 2 models · 2 claims · S-curves and diminishing returns, Specialise and trade
• Jason Cohen 2 models · 2 claims · Probabilistic thinking, S-curves and diminishing returns
• Jason Fried 2 models · 2 claims · Affordances and signifiers, Design is how it works
• Jeff Bezos 2 models · 2 claims · One-way and two-way doors, Play long games
• Karri Saarinen 1 model · 2 claims · Taste is trained
• Kent Beck 2 models · 2 claims · One-way and two-way doors, Skin in the game
• Lilian Weng 1 model · 2 claims · When a measure becomes a target
• Masud Husain 1 model · 2 claims · Activation energy
• Max Hodak 2 models · 2 claims · Bottlenecks, Feedback loops
• Meaghan Choi 2 models · 2 claims · Affordances and signifiers, Conventions (Jakob's law)
• Mike Krieger 2 models · 2 claims · Power laws, Say no by default
• Miles Brundage 2 models · 2 claims · Incentives, Skin in the game
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2 models · 2 claims · Power laws, Probabilistic thinking
• Nicole Forsgren 2 models · 2 claims · Bottlenecks, Feedback loops
• Phil Hagelberg 2 models · 2 claims · Lock-in and switching costs, Trade-offs
• Pieter Levels 2 models · 2 claims · Everything decays without maintenance, Say no by default
• Raph Koster 2 models · 2 claims · Affordances and signifiers, Conservation of complexity
• Rich Hickey 2 models · 2 claims · Conservation of complexity, Less, but better
• Rory Sutherland 2 models · 2 claims · Play long games, Power laws
• Sean Carroll 2 models · 2 claims · Emergence, Occam's razor
• Sergey Levine 2 models · 2 claims · Emergence, Thought experiments
• ThePrimeagen 2 models · 2 claims · Craft in the details, Lock-in and switching costs
• Tim Sweeney 2 models · 2 claims · Activation energy, Feedback loops
• Tom Verrilli 2 models · 2 claims · Leverage, The map is not the territory
• Zvi Mowshowitz 2 models · 2 claims · Second-order thinking, When a measure becomes a target