Mental Models

If you are going on a road trip, you are likely want a road map (or an accurate GPS). You want to get your bearings so that you know the best way to get to where you want to be, safetly and on time. If the map is outdated – the road is closed – … Read more

I spent some of Christmas holiday re-reading Farnham Street’s ‘The Great Mental Models’. Mental models are useful shortcuts to help you understand the world. It is a simplified representation of how something works. They help take many complex ideas and compress them into manageable chunks. Reciprocity Reciprocation can be summed up by: “So in everything, … Read more