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Adam Mastroianni's mental models

7 claims Adam Mastroianni made fit 6 mental models. Most often: Incentives, Everything decays without maintenance, Make it real. Everything they said here.

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Our reading: their claim applies the idea without naming it. The claim is theirs; filing it here is ours.

Incentives

Look at what people are rewarded for; it explains more behaviour than what they say, your own included.

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Grading flattens whatever is taught into what can be tested, and teaches students to ignore everything else.

  1. Adam Mastroianni Evaluation forces me to flatten everything I teach into something that can be tested, and it encourages students to ignore everything that isn’t on the test. I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a copexperimental-history.com · 16 May 2023All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsEvaluation forces me to flatten everything I teach into something that can be tested, and it encourages students to ignore everything that isn’t on the test.

    ↗I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a copexperimental-history.com

    16 May 2023

Needing a reviewer's approval before an idea counts for anything makes scientists worse at thinking, and costs the field its most unusual ideas.

  1. Adam Mastroianni Making peer review harsher would also exacerbate the worst problem of all: just knowing that your ideas won’t count for anything unless peer reviewers like them makes you worse at thinking. The rise and fall of peer reviewexperimental-history.com · 13 Dec 2022All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsMaking peer review harsher would also exacerbate the worst problem of all: just knowing that your ideas won’t count for anything unless peer reviewers like them makes you worse at thinking.

    ↗The rise and fall of peer reviewexperimental-history.com

    13 Dec 2022

Everything decays without maintenance

Institutions, code, cities and knowledge run down by default; keeping something alive is work that has to be paid for.

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Knowledge decays fast when it goes unused, while the feeling a class left behind lasts for decades.

  1. Adam Mastroianni Feelings, or vibes, on the other hand, seem to stick around a lot longer. You'll forget most of what you learn. What should you do about that?experimental-history.com · 12 Jul 2022All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsFeelings, or vibes, on the other hand, seem to stick around a lot longer.

    ↗You'll forget most of what you learn. What should you do about that?experimental-history.com

    12 Jul 2022

Make it real

Build a prototype; it settles arguments a description cannot.

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Power laws

In many things a few cases account for most of the result, so the average misleads and the outlier decides.

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Second-order thinking

Ask "and then what?": follow a decision past its first effect to the ones that come after.

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A vetting system that catches almost nothing is worse than no vetting at all, because its stamp makes people trust what nobody checked.

  1. Adam Mastroianni This extremely bad system is worse than nothing because it fools people into thinking they’re safe when they’re not. The rise and fall of peer reviewexperimental-history.com · 13 Dec 2022All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsThis extremely bad system is worse than nothing because it fools people into thinking they’re safe when they’re not.

    ↗The rise and fall of peer reviewexperimental-history.com

    13 Dec 2022

Value moves to what stays scarce

When something becomes cheap and plentiful, the value moves to whatever is still rare next to it.

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Knowledge is cheap and easily acquired; what a person actually needs is curiosity, self-efficacy, perseverance, perspective and hope.

  1. Adam Mastroianni Untangling them requires some knowledge, yes, but knowledge is cheap and easily acquired. What you really need is curiosity, self-efficacy, perseverance, perspective, and hope. You'll forget most of what you learn. What should you do about that?experimental-history.com · 12 Jul 2022All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsUntangling them requires some knowledge, yes, but knowledge is cheap and easily acquired. What you really need is curiosity, self-efficacy, perseverance, perspective, and hope.

    ↗You'll forget most of what you learn. What should you do about that?experimental-history.com

    12 Jul 2022