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Architect Matthew Frederick on the Three Levels of Knowing
In a high-information, highly competitive world, it’s crucial to know one or two big things and to know them in more depth and detail than most of your contemporaries. But to really ignite that knowledge, you need the ability to think about it from a variety of eclectic perspectives and to be able to collaborate fruitfully with people who have diff
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World a book by David Epstein
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– not to be a good academic, but to have a good, pragmatic grip on reality. He regularly explains to students which mental models have proven most useful to help him understand markets and human behaviour. He advocates looking out for the most powerful concepts in every discipline and to try to understand them so thoroughly that they become part of
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The key to better understanding the world is to build a latticework of mental models.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from all this building, it’s that reality has a surprising amount of detail. This turns out to explain why it's so easy for people to end up intellectually stuck. Even when they’re literally the best in the world in their field.