I've seen several of these lists being shared around the internet, and I'm curious if anyone actually finds it valuable to read through a laundry list of mental models. I generally find these abstract descriptions useless unless I've already seen the principle in action in several concrete real life examples--in which case the idea is not a new one to me.
Yes, I am a big believer in mental models (and have my own manually curated list), but seeing someone else's abstract list seems to resonate much less.
The set of "mental models" here isn't very well curated. They seem more like clever quotes than mental models, and it's curation seems less organized/thoughtful compared to the list of laws described above it.
The default 80/20 example everyone uses for Pareto misleads you about the nature of the insight. You can observe any combo, and they need not add up to 100%. It could just as well be “12% of the effort gets you 100% of your results, and the other 88% gets you nothing.”
Alphabetical is no way to arrange concepts like these if the intention is to be useful.
My intuition tells me this was more of an exercise for the author to help keep these things in mind than as a high traffic repository for learning these things and applying them to one's life.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 22.7 ms ] threadMy intuition tells me this was more of an exercise for the author to help keep these things in mind than as a high traffic repository for learning these things and applying them to one's life.