* Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
* Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
* The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
* The Great Mental Models
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#12The Catechism of the Catholic Church
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#13I wrote a blog post today about how I don't believe in the abstract plane, if you're into it:
http://mitchgordon.me/philosophy/2019/05/12/non-existence-of...
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#15Design Patterns by Gamma et al. would be an example from software architecture. It catalogs a couple of dozen patterns that recur in projects regardless of their specific domains.
Open Source Software Licensing by Rosen is another. It identifies two broad categories of open source licenses and shows how various licenses fit into each.
These two books gave me a framework for thinking about large areas that had until I read them been quite confusing. They turn a chaotic jumble of special cases into a simple framework for forming hypotheses and making predictions.
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#16I’ve been thinking I wish someone would write a mental model oriented book converting the models for git, react/frp, OO, prototypical OO, Kubernetes, blockchain, DB indexes, peer to peer networking and whatever else. Maybe each chapter is a different author. I think mental model first learning would be a lot faster. Each git command can be explained in the mental model rather than as a stand-alone thing. You could pr…
I kinda understand what you are saying, but not fully. Do you have an example of such article (or video) on one of the topics you listed?
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#171) Sources of Power: How people make decisions by Gary Klein
Introduces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_primed_decision It really resonated with me.
2) Thinking and Deciding by Jonathan Baron. Quite thorough and comprehensive.
3) There are also books on "TRIZ"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ) a technique for problem solving, which arose from the former Soviet Union.
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#18If you haven't seen it, this is one of the best resources on the subject: https://fs.blog/mental-models/ Farnham Street blog has a TON of fascinating articles.
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#19“Thinking in Bets” by Annie Duke takes you through a specific model.
“Principles” by Ray Dalio gives a mesh of models that Ray has learnt or improved.
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#20Anything by Krishnamurti. Don’t be fooled by the name; he’s a good thinker :)