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Marc Andreessen's mental models

3 claims Marc Andreessen made fit 3 mental models. Most often: Incentives, Learning machine, Probabilistic thinking. Everything they said here.

Models they name

Their own words name the idea.

Incentives

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

Others who think with this model

Charlie MungerBill AckmanMiles BrundageNaval Ravikant

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When a system's incentives produce bad behaviour, the blame belongs entirely to whoever created the incentives.

  1. Marc Andreessen Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz And then you have a choice which is do you blame the people who are exhibiting the terrible behavior or do you blame the people who created the incentives? Right? And and and he he believes and I agree on this. I I think 100% you blame the people who created the incentives. Inside the Mind of A Famous Investor | Marc Andreessenyoutube.com · 25 Jan 2022 · 0:57:46 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    Their wordsAnd then you have a choice which is do you blame the people who are exhibiting the terrible behavior or do you blame the people who created the incentives? Right? And and and he he believes and I agree on this. I I think 100% you blame the people who created the incentives.

    Where this was said

    Watch from 0:57:46 plays here

    ↗Inside the Mind of A Famous Investor | Marc Andreessenyoutube.com

    25 Jan 2022 · video · 1h 17m · spoken · machine transcript

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.

Learning machine

Keep learning after school, and learn from other people's mistakes as well as your own.

Others who think with this model

Charlie MungerRay DalioChamath PalihapitiyaCharan RanganathJames Clear

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Learning from failure accumulates as psychic scar tissue that narrows what a person is willing to consider as they get older.

  1. Marc Andreessen Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz as you age, you just naturally build up all of this all of this sort of psychic scar tissue and you have all these cautionary lessons in your in your head all the time. And you just you and and therefore as a consequence, right? Your your aperture of what you're willing to explore as you get older just shrinks. Inside the Mind of A Famous Investor | Marc Andreessenyoutube.com · 25 Jan 2022 · 0:28:06 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    Their wordsas you age, you just naturally build up all of this all of this sort of psychic scar tissue and you have all these cautionary lessons in your in your head all the time. And you just you and and therefore as a consequence, right? Your your aperture of what you're willing to explore as you get older just shrinks.

    Where this was said

    Watch from 0:28:06 plays here

    ↗Inside the Mind of A Famous Investor | Marc Andreessenyoutube.com

    25 Jan 2022 · video · 1h 17m · spoken · machine transcript

Probabilistic thinking

Think in odds, not certainties, and bet heavily only when the odds are clearly yours.

Others who think with this model

Shane ParrishCharlie MungerDaniel KahnemanMorgan HouselIsaiah TaylorJason Cohenand 3 more

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Almost everything worth doing sits in a probabilistic domain where a perfect score is not available.

  1. Marc Andreessen Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz in quote-unquote real life, right? Which is starting businesses or you know, writing books, right? Or composing music or playing basketball or playing poker, right? Or basically doing anything interesting we're in a probabilistic domain, right? Inside the Mind of A Famous Investor | Marc Andreessenyoutube.com · 25 Jan 2022 · 0:31:09 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    Their wordsin quote-unquote real life, right? Which is starting businesses or you know, writing books, right? Or composing music or playing basketball or playing poker, right? Or basically doing anything interesting we're in a probabilistic domain, right?

    Where this was said

    Watch from 0:31:09 plays here

    ↗Inside the Mind of A Famous Investor | Marc Andreessenyoutube.com

    25 Jan 2022 · video · 1h 17m · spoken · machine transcript