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If you haven't seen it, this is one of the best resources on the subject: https://fs.blog/mental-models/ Farnham Street blog has a TON of fascinating articles.


There real challenge is remembering them, and determining which to use and investing the time to use them.


right, but i would say do a superficial pass through of all of them and then study more the ones that FEEL logical. The ones that work best with your existing logic will likely serve you most.


Spaced repetition could help to memorize them.


+1 for Farnam Street. They just published a book based on their blog posts about mental models. You can find the book here: https://fs.blog/tgmm




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