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Bill Gates's mental models

2 claims Bill Gates made fit 2 mental models. Most often: Feedback loops, Less, but better. Everything they said here.

Models they name

Their own words name the idea.

Feedback loops

Shorten the loop between doing and finding out; whatever a loop rewards is what you become.

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Clear goals plus a measure that drives progress toward them can achieve amazing progress, yet this is surprisingly rarely done well

  1. Bill Gates Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal-in a feedback loop similar to the one Rosen describes. This may seem pretty basic, but it is amazing to me how often it is not done and how hard it is to get right. 2013 Annual Letter: Measuring Progressgatesfoundation.org · c. 2013All korrents from this piece
    You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal-in a feedback loop similar to the one Rosen describes. This may seem pretty basic, but it is amazing to me how often it is not done and how hard it is to get right.

Models we see in what they say

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

Less, but better

Find the essence and cut the rest; simplicity is hard work, not the absence of effort.

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Online education should aim for at least one great course per subject rather than many mediocre ones

  1. Bill Gates Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation We should focus on having at least one great course online for each subject rather than lots of mediocre courses. 2010 Annual Lettergatesfoundation.org · c. 2010All korrents from this piece
    We should focus on having at least one great course online for each subject rather than lots of mediocre courses.