#mental-models

When the Mind Refuses to Bend: The Hidden Cost of Mental Rigidity

Blame Laundering — The Innocent Villain

Back when I was a young lad, I used to be an avid fan of MasterChef. Everyday at 8 I would religiously watch it while eating dinner. It was…

Every Number You Chase Is Already Lying to You

Hanoi, 1902. A bounty meant to wipe out rats created a rat industry instead. The same thing is happening to the metric you check every…

The Thinking System Behind Every Great Writing.

5 Mental Models Every Online Writer Should Know.

First Principles Thinking: The Mental Model Behind Breakthrough Ideas

Stop copying existing solutions. Learn First Principles Thinking to break problems into fundamentals and build better answers from scratch.

Framing Effect

The fact didn’t change. The way it was handed to you did.

Sunk Cost Fallacy

We keep going not because the future is worth it — but because the past already cost us.

Signal vs Noise: How to Think Clearly in an Uncertain World

Not every strong feeling is evidence, and not every event is a message.

You Are Already a Strategist. You Just Don’t Know It Yet.

Strategy is not a boardroom skill. It is the quiet habit of asking one better question before you act — and it starts the moment you wake…

Do You Know Your “Reception Filter”?

AI and the “Psychologist BlaBla”

In the end, AI is just another kind of psychologist — with its own version of psychologist blabla. That’s something I’ve learned over years…

Investing Is a Fog of War Game, and Most People Play It Wrong

Why you never get the full map before you move, and the two-part system that lets you act anyway

The Relevance Crisis: How to Future-Proof Your Brain Before the System Collapses

The old rulebook of life was simple, comforting, and predictable: study hard, get a degree, find a stable company, and work faithfully for…

“Wisdom” or “Comfort”? Actually, You’re Asking the Wrong Question

You may be tangled in a moderate decision — switching jobs, relocating to a new city, deciding whether to continue a relationship, or…

No， enlightenment isn‘t a sudden insight — it’s the moment you finally stop lying to yourself

Core Viewpoint: There is no mystical, one-off state of “enlightenment”. What you experience is the exact moment when disconnected logical…

A Closer Look at “8 Uncomfortable Quotes That Are Hard to Read, But Important to Know”

Why these truths resonate now, and what they reveal about us

Why Coincidences Aren't Real

Companies Don’t Disagree on Data. They Disagree on Reality.

Most companies don’t really operate as one system.

9 Mental Models That Make Life and Decisions Simpler

Most people do not struggle from a lack of intelligence. They struggle from mental overload.

Avevo solo martelli, e tutto sembrava un cantiere

Come ho dovuto disimparare tre modelli del mio mestiere per cominciare a scrivere — e cosa è rimasto al loro posto

When Your Personality Becomes a Coping Mechanism

Sometimes the traits people call “personality” are actually survival strategies repeated long enough to feel permanent.

If you‘re gonna lie, do it this way

- How to use “functional lies“ to execute the truth

Why Modern News Feels Impossible to Understand

The mental model that finally made the news make sense

The Execution Paradox: Why Your SaaS is Capped at Your Cognitive Throughput

By Zero-State Operations

My “carnival of doom“

- How celebration turned into my worst day at school

The Speaker Didn’t See the Hole in His Own Business Model Canvas Demo

A story about a nail, a piece of wood, and why compact frameworks like BMC, OKRs, or Scrum work for some people and fail for others.

Systems of Thought

Knowledge builds like constellations formed by opening pathways between ideas. Each concept on its own is isolated; its real value emerges…

Jakob’s Law: Users Don’t Spend Most of Their Time in Your Product

A few years ago I watched a usability session for a redesigned e-commerce checkout. The new flow was beautiful. The team had reimagined…

IDEA GUY ERA

This article is really based on my hunger for a better understanding of how systems work. It might not be necessary to apply to you if you…

Can AI Really Dramatically Accelerate Learning? Yes — But Only If You Use It Correctly.

AI Agent

On Jikisai Minami’s Quiet Wisdom: It’s Okay Not to Look for the Meaning of Life

a book review.

Stop Reading Annual Reports. Start Drawing Flowcharts.

Numbers tell you what happened. Flowcharts tell you why — and where it’s about to go wrong. Here is a complete method for mapping any…

I Had a 2-Year-Old Problem. I Solved It in 10 Minutes

The complete framework at a glance — save this.

Mental Illusions

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How to Train Your Mind to Think Differently

Most people try to think harder. Intelligent people think better.

The 10 Mental Models Behind Billion-Dollar Investments

How elite investors evaluate everything through a small set of repeatable lenses, and why the biggest winners always score high on more…

How Do You Optimize UX for Expert User Efficiency?

Designing for Experts: The Overlooked UX Imperative

Hindsight Bias

“I knew it all along.” — The three most dangerous words in judgment

The One Question That Stops Almost Every Bad Decision

It takes three seconds. And it’s the mental model I use every single day.

BODOH ITU TIDAK SELALU BODOH

Membedah Bodoh dari sudut pandang lain.

The stories inside your head decide the size of your world.

The Invisible Borders of Your Brain: Why Your Knowledge Can Become a Trap

Design Patterns

How to learn and apply reusable solutions to common design problems

The Framing Effect

The same fact, told differently, becomes a different fact

Pathways to Regeneration: Exploring Mental Models of Traditional Food Systems

At the Agroecology Forum in Malmö, we — Maria Chiara, Chaima, and Roxane, three PhD students from the Universities of Göttingen and Kassel—…

The 80/20 Rule: How to Get More by Doing Less

What if I told you that you’re probably wasting about 80% of your effort — every single day — on things that barely move the needle?

Tangled Psychological IssueCoped by Rupunzel

Setting:

Second-Order Thinking

Most people think about what happens next. Few think about what happens after that

Hanlon’s Razor

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity

Cognitive Filter: Any Information Changes Your Expectations

Any information changes your expectations. The Cognitive Filter helps you filter out false ones.

Estás tomando buenas decisiones para un mundo que ya no existe.

A eso lo llamo tener el mapa vencido.