mental models

  1. This, too, shall pass1
  2. Live with the consequences.
  3. Put skin in the game.
  4. Splitting attention is very overrated. Focus is underrated.
  5. Shortcuts (i.e. less upfront effort) are rarely long-term optimal. Effort is never wasted.
  6. Where one’s mind goes is where one’s life will.
  7. Everything, everywhere, is always moving, forever2
  8. Personal exceptionalism (e.g. crazy driver paradox; either you underestimate how well other people know you, or overestimate how well you know other people; etc.)
  9. Do 100 things.
  10. The world is asker-biased (e.g.).

Footnotes

  1. See 7. ↩

  2. See 1. ↩