This set is clearly biased from my own experience and surely incomplete. This post is my attempt to enumerate the mental models that are repeatedly useful to me. As Munger says, “80 or 90 important models will carry about 90% of the freight in making you a worldly‑wise person.” There is a much smaller set of concepts, however, that come up repeatedly in day-to-day decision making, problem solving, and truth seeking.

There are tens of thousands of mental models, and every discipline has their own set that you can learn through coursework, mentorship, or first-hand experience. Hanlon’s Razor - “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by carelessness.”). More profoundly, though, it opened my mind to the power of seeking out and applying mental models across a wide array of disciplines.Ī mental model is just a concept you can use to help try to explain things (e.g. Īround 2003 I came across Charlie Munger’s 1995 speech, The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, which introduced me to how behavioral economics can be applied in business and investing. Now that the winds have changed and DuckDuckGo has surged in popularity he has assimilated into the Borg.2019 UPDATE: Since this post came out, I co-authored a book about it called Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models. Weinberg had no issue with going on RT in 2015 to promote his website. Libs Of TikTok got suspended from Twitter temporarily just for posting the screenshots.

The Gateway Pundit reported that they reached out to DuckDuckGo for comment on the allegations but they did not respond. Last year, the popular Twitter account Libs Of TikTok posted emails purportedly from DuckDuckGo said to demonstrate that the company discriminates against white men. Weinberg told the New York Times last month that his company is now operating as a snitch for Bing. Whether Weinberg is taking some “principled” stand against “Russian disinfo” or just following Microsoft’s lead because his site is mostly just a Bing scraper is not clear. Microsoft announced in late February that they’re going to manually demote RT and Sputnik in Bing search results, ban their apps from the Microsoft Store and ban them from advertising on their network. DuckDuckGo’s search results have gone to s**t over the past two years because they mostly just index Bing results (the two companies have a deal together).

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