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Charlie Munger Thought Faster and Sharper Than Almost Anyone: The 7 Mental Models Behind It

Charlie Munger, the late vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, made complex decisions with a speed that other executives and investors envied for decades. He didn’t have a secret fo...

Modal Model

Before you can permanently remember something, it must pass from your short-term memory into your long-term memory. The storage for these two types of memory is generally believed...

Leaders Who Say ‘I’m Not Creative’ Need These 5 Mental Models to Start Experimenting

Challenge the invisible rules that stall original thinking, then use five practical models to make, test, and improve ideas without surrendering judgment.

Mind Metaphors That Shape Beliefs, Safety Beliefs

The idea that the human brain is computational is recent and is reinforced in language by the interchange of... The post Mind Metaphors That Shape Beliefs, Safety Beliefs appeared...

The Triarchic Model of Reality, A Dialectic Way of Understanding

Free Online Workshops We have already started our preparation reading for the workshops on enactive thinking and risk but,... The post The Triarchic Model of Reality, A Dialectic W...

Diffusion Models

Agents, Tools, and MCP: A Mental Model That Actually Helps

Everyone is talking about how magical AI is right now, but if you have spent any time experimenting with it recently, you have probably realized how difficult it is to get the resu...

What a dollhouse full of death taught me about thinking

How models change what we notice, question, and understandTiny furniture[Content warning: This article contains images of miniature death scenes.]I recently started building a mini...

Systems Thinking

Tools for Possibilities: issue no. 204

The model is behaving impeccably. Your information architecture isn’t.

What a 1960 study of city maps explains about AI context.Continue reading on UX Collective »

The Agentic Age Needs A Cognitive Operating Model

Last October, I published a blog proposing a different mental model for AI agents: Treat them as cognitive skills and products, not as digital employees. That framing has since res...

Adjusting Your Belief System

If we can translate our goals to pictures, it can help us achieve success.

Beyond memory capacity: A probabilistic, dual store model of visuospatial working memory

by Eduardo A. Aponte, Thanneer M. Perumal, Francesca Cormack, Christopher H. Chatham The last decades have seen a great improvement in our understanding of visuospatial working me...

Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models

Experts explain how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled.

Your Framework has been Doing your Thinking. That's the problem.

Image The new engineer asked her question in the second week, in the most innocent voice imaginable. "Why do we do the estimation poker?" The room...

Как модели упаковывают концепты в многообразия: смотрим на теорию, рушим идеальный мир и ищем кружочки

Mechanistic claims в interpretability для бедных, но бравых. Шучу, конечно. Просто когда дело дошло до задачи "придумать название" — вспомнила шутки моей коллеги. В одном из прибли...