Gabriel, stop using your minions to exploit HN. This is not like you pay some journalist or youtuber to attack google and then recommend your rudimentary search engine.
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
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#42Congrats on the new book. How come the ebook (Kindle) is more expensive than the physical one? With higher commissions (and no printing or logistics costs) for the ebook, I'd expect the other way around.
Books are value priced.
Ebooks are a greater value to the user, so they're priced higher. Manufacturing costs are irrelevant.
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#43I had pre-purchased it, and just got it on my Kobo.
I know that Amazon offers financial incentive for people publishing electronic version on kindle only, to the point that a series one of my kid was reading on her e-reader restricted the last few books to the kindle (To be fair we emailed the author and she sent pdf copies of the ramining books for free). Thanks for making your book available beyond and outside the Amazon empire!
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#44The "preview" button at the top of the page goes to a form to enter my email for "book updates".
I'd be interested in reading a sample, does the book updates form provide one?
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#45A few years ago I published a large list of mental models I find repeatedly useful ( https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-use... ), discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12040707 . I've spent my spare time since (day job is running DuckDuckGo) with my co-author (statistician, researcher, and wife!) turning that list into this book, which weaves the 300+ mental models into nine narrativ…
I liked traction, with its focus on try all these things, one may get you to the next level, then try some others. Does this book take the same approach?
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#46Not available on book depository?
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#47you obviously got a PhD. of how to hack HN and other social outlets even 4chan for your interest. Congrats anyway.
"Hack": notify others of a potentially beneficial resource
What is the greater conspiracy theory behind this statement, which suggests malicious intent? Without the theory, it's unfounded.
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#49Great work. Just ordered. Thanks for putting this together. I saw Charlie Munger and was sold.
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#50More of a meta comment than a criticism: there's been a real explosion in interest in mental models this last decade. Mental models have become top of mind in the SV community (and its associated thought leaders), from Farnham Street, Naval, Tim Ferriss, Patrick Collison and many others regularly talking about them and their creators such as Buffet / Munger / Kahneman etc.
What's happening here? Is there some kind of fundamental set of truths we have stumbled upon that make these models timeless and universally useful, or are we just at the top of the hype cycle? Are there cons to internalizing these models, or is this always-relevant wisdom that should be imparted upon all of humanity?
One could also wonder if there's anything new at all to these mental models, or if these have always been universally valid and applicable principles that the community has repackaged in a more polished and condensed format.
Disclaimer: I love this whole subject and immediately bought the book, BUT I'm also somewhat wary of everybody drinking the same koolaid, including myself. Are these truly valuable, or are they purely fashionable, and so people are cargo culting famous SV personalities? i.e. is this the wisdom version of Jack Dorsey meditating and fasting?