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Gabriel Weinberg

What Gabriel Weinberg thinks about mental models

@gabriel-weinberg · 8 positions · 0 changes of mind

Founder and CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo, and co-author of the books Traction and Super Thinking.

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7 dated positions, 2016, in their own words. Our reading of what Gabriel Weinberg has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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    Our readingSeeking out and applying mental models across a wide array of disciplines is powerful.

    investingbehavioural science

    Their wordsAround 2003 I came across Charlie Munger’s 1995 speech, The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, which introduced me to how behavioral economics can be applied in business and investing. More profoundly, though, it opened my mind to the power of seeking out and applying mental models across a wide array of disciplines.

    ↗Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Usefulweb.archive.org 1st of 8 in this piece

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    Our readingA small set of mental models comes up again and again in everyday decisions, problem solving and truth seeking.

    Their wordsThere is a much smaller set of concepts, however, that come up repeatedly in day-to-day decision making, problem solving, and truth seeking.

    ↗Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Usefulweb.archive.org 2nd of 8 in this piece

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    Our readingAny one person's list of mental models is shaped by their own experience and is likely incomplete.

    Their wordsThis post is my attempt to enumerate the mental models that are repeatedly useful to me. This set is clearly biased from my own experience and surely incomplete.

    ↗Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Usefulweb.archive.org 3rd of 8 in this piece

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    Our readingA mental model only helps if it is known well, practised, and applied in the right context at the right time.

    Their wordsI find mental models are useful to try to make sense of things and to help generate ideas. To actually be useful, however, you have to apply them in the right context at the right time. And for that to happen naturally, you have to know them well and practice using them.

    ↗Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Usefulweb.archive.org 4th of 8 in this piece

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    Our readingMany mental models are useful well outside the discipline they come from.

    energy

    Their wordsMost of the mental models on this list are here because they are useful outside of their specific discipline. For example, use of the mental model “peak oil” isn’t restricted to an energy context.

    ↗Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Usefulweb.archive.org 5th of 8 in this piece

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    Our readingMental models can help explain and navigate the world without being good in themselves.

    Their wordsI am not endorsing any of these concepts as normatively good; I’m just saying they have repeatedly helped me explain and navigate the world.

    ↗Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Usefulweb.archive.org 7th of 8 in this piece

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    Our readingFor someone who wants to be generally effective, learning a list of well-used mental models is a good place to start.

    Their wordsI wish I had learned many of these years earlier. In fact, the proximate cause for posting this was so I could more effectively answer the question I frequently get from people I work with: “what should I learn next?” If you’re trying to be generally effective, my best advice is to start with the the things on this list.

    ↗Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Usefulweb.archive.org 8th of 8 in this piece