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Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions

Shane Parrish · Farnam Street (fs.blog) Free Beginner

Spotting a trend is easy, understanding why it is happening takes more than one lens, and this is Farnam Street's hub on building a latticework of models to read a signal from several angles. It helps you avoid the classic mistake of running every new thing through the one model you already know. Use it to sharpen the connect the dots muscle.

• Use several disciplines to read one signal.
• One model alone distorts what you see.
• Second and third order effects reveal real trends.