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Brandon Taylor's mental models

2 claims Brandon Taylor made fit 2 mental models. Most often: Incentives, The map is not the territory. Everything they said here.

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.

Incentives

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

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Coaches who depend on clients paying them repeatedly avoid the corrections that might drive those clients away.

  1. Brandon Taylor American novelist and critic, author of Real Life American tennis coaches do not want to get fired. They want you to continue to pay them. get goodblgtylr.substack.com · 1 Dec 2025All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsAmerican tennis coaches do not want to get fired. They want you to continue to pay them.

    ↗get goodblgtylr.substack.com

    1 Dec 2025

The map is not the territory

Every model, word or plan is a simplified map of reality; useful when its structure matches, misleading when mistaken for the thing itself.

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The story we tell about a life is not the life itself; life exists only in the present moment.

  1. Brandon Taylor American novelist and critic, author of Real Life The story of a life is not the life itself. Life is in the moment. labyrinthmaxxing and minotaur hoursblgtylr.substack.com · 17 Sept 2026All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsThe story of a life is not the life itself. Life is in the moment.

    ↗labyrinthmaxxing and minotaur hoursblgtylr.substack.com

    17 Sept 2026