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Vocabulary as a Meta Mental Model
The goal with the lexigraph is to create mini-dictionaries for each root word. The sum of root words are graspable by someone in elementary school. This would give them a map of all nuance behind the basic concepts they already know.
Maybe upper tiers of vocabulary are hard to pierce because we don’t have any frameworks to organize or remember. Con
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If you don't have the underlying experience, then it just reads like a collection of quotes. It's cool, it's inspirational for a moment, maybe you'll make a nice poster out of it. But then you forget it and move on. Mental models are really just compact ways for you to recall your own knowledge.
Eric Jorgenson • Almanack of Naval Ravikant
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This matters, because language is a form of power. It creates categories that help us interpret the world, and that which is not easily available in language is often ignored in thought itself. A shared vocabulary makes ideas more accessible while a lack of language can render an experience illegible. It can isolate.
Angela Chen • Ace
The thesaurus sucks. You can always tell when a writer is using a thesaurus and random words are substituted to sound smart. The problem is the thesaurus has a bad architecture. It's flat. Everything connects to everything (the original sin), and it treats every synonym as equal (they're not!). Since we don't have a hierarchy of "core words" and "s
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Mental models are really just compact ways for you to recall your own knowledge. [78]
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
To internalize a concept, you need to understand its components and relationships.