mental models
Parkinson’s Law: Tasks expand to fill available time. Tight deadlines = peak efficiency.
Sakowicz’s diary avails itself of a more unusual opportunity. He rarely humanizes individual victims; instead, he mostly offers a chance to observe what mass extermination looks like from the mid-distance—where you can still see the victims’ shape as individuals, but where you also see their collective place in the unremitting aggregation of the
... See moretheatlantic.com • Kazimierz Sakowicz’s Secret Diary of the Genocide at Ponar
'Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times.'
Murphy’s Law: The more you fear something happening, the more likely it is to occur.
Stop avoiding it - prepare for it.
"Steelmanning" is the opposite of "strawmanning." While strawmanning involves weakening or misrepresenting an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack, steelmanning is the practice of strengthening an opposing argument—presenting it in its strongest, most reasonable, and most compelling form—before engaging with it.
Key Aspects of
... See moreThe Law of Triviality: People give disproportionate attention to trivial issues.
Pareto Principle (the 80/20 rule): In many situations, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
Access to treatment is more crucial than EVER. This individual reported to emergency responders that they had been inpatient for 13 days, but their insurance would not cover any more time so they were released prior to feeling ready. They returned to fentanyl use - one time... but after being in a controlled environment, tolerance decreases and
... See moreThe same goes for pronouncements made by the chairman of the Federal Reserve; markets move, even though these statements inject little of tangible value into the real economy. They are merely sound waves. And still we allow economic heads to continue to play with the illusory dials. It would be a real wake-up call if all involved realized the
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