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Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

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Re: Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

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therealdrag0 wrote: post #87
the-dude wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is in your profile: noprocrast, maxvisit, minaway

I'm still confused. Can you elaborate.

Your profile is https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=therealdrag0. When you, the owner of that profile, visits it, you will see many settings. Among them are noprocrast (boolean), maxvisit (number of minutes), and minaway (number of minutes). When noprocrast is set to yes, Hacker News will refuse to load if you visit it too much, to help you avoid procrastination.

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Re: Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

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Post by thisisit »

yegg wrote: post #2

A 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 am on the first chapter and one thing which always bothered me was the example in first principles thinking. Farnam Street did and so did you in the book.

Tesla and Musk, in spite of their success, might not be the best of examples. While the material breakdown cost give us an elemental view of what goes in - the actual cost is on R&D. Putting together the $80 material while ensuring the costs are down is something which might be doable only with huge amount of money. I don't see how it helps average Joe.

Re: Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

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Post by giardini »

eswat wrote: post #16
yegg wrote: post #2

A 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…

Congrats on completing another book! Mental models seem to be a popular topic to write about in the last few years. As someone that has already devoured a lot of content about this, is there a good reason to pick up your book if I don't necessarily want to make the time to read more on the topic?

The content of these books is essentially classical operations research (OR), first was used by the Allies in World War II in attempts to optimize military cost-effectiveness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research

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