Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
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Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
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#2A 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 narrative thematic chapters, paired with 150+ illustrations. Here's the full list of models from the book (in order): https://superthinking.com/download/MentalModels.pdf
Happy to answer any questions about it and/or the process of getting this published. It's my second book (first is Traction).
Re: Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
#3A 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…
Awesome! Thanks for posting. Just ordered it.
Re: Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
#4A 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…
You wrote two books and you run DDG? Got any advice on balancing it all?
(also thanks for DDG!)
Re: Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
#5A 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've been waiting for the release! Just ordered. Congratulations on getting it out!
Re: Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
#6A 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…
(statistician, researcher, and wife!) -> In that order?
Re: Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
#7A 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've been waiting for the release! Just ordered. Congratulations on getting it out!
Thank you!
Re: Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
#8A 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…
Awesome! Thanks for posting. Just ordered it.
Thanks so much! Really appreciate it.
Re: Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
#9Currently not available in AU kindle store?
Re: Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
#10A 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…
You wrote two books and you run DDG? Got any advice on balancing it all? (also thanks for DDG!)
You're welcome. Sorry for being self-referential, but we really did put our best productivity advice in the book -- Chapter 3: Spend Your Time Wisely. Here are the "Key Takeaways" from that chapter (there is a little section at the end of each).
* Choose activities to work on based on their relevance to your north star.
* Focus your time on just one of these truly important activities at a time (no multitasking!), making it the top idea on your mind.
* Select between options based on opportunity cost models.
* Use the Pareto principle to find the 80/20 in any activity and increase your leverage at every turn.
* Recognize when you’ve hit diminishing returns and avoid negative returns.
* Use commitment and the default effect to avoid present bias, and periodic evaluations to avoid loss aversion and the sunk-cost fallacy.
* Look for shortcuts via existing design patterns, tools, or clever algorithms. Consider whether you can reframe the problem.