Mental Models

Nobody is wrong 100% of the time. Always look for the nugget of truth in those you disagree with.

Nobody is right 100% of the time. Always look for the faults and mistakes in those you agree with.

Hanlon’s Razor is a useful mental model which can be best summarized as:

‘Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect.’

We should all want to cultivate a thirty second mind that can absorb the essence of a problem and come up with insights based on deep fluency with how the world works. However, a different type of “thirty second mind” is far more common today. Nearly thirty years after the internet became mainstream, the majority of people in our society have almos... See more