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Notes and Quotes From Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Steve Jobs at the WWDC 07 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I love this quote. To me this is worth the entire price of the book. From page 305: “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to...
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Primary Principles In Economics to Build Mental Models
Profile of Adam Smith (Photo credit: Wikipedia) (1) People face tradeoffs. (2) The cost of something is what you give up to get it. (3) Rational people think at the margin. (4) People respond to...
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Notes From The Signal And The Noise by Nate Silver
Title page of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. I (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I wanted to start sharing my notes from the books I am reading and I apologize from starting in the...
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Mental Modeling Questions
User Journey Map / Mental Model (Photo credit: Alveart) Mental Model Questioning in Science Fiction (1) Are their new technologies or ideas based on an old paradigm? Mental Model Questioning in Biology...
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Quote From Charles Munger
“The mental habit of thinking backward forces objectivity. One of the ways you think a thing through backward is you take your initial assumption and say, let’s try and disprove it.” Charles Munger...
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More On Mental Model Questioning
User Journey Map / Mental Model (Photo credit: Alveart) These are some notes I took on mental models from 2005 that I think are still valuable. The current accounting system was developed to measure...
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Another Quote From Charles Munger
“You’ve got to have models in your head and you’ve got to array your experience-both vicarious and direct onto this latticework of mental models.” Charles Munger Charlie Munger (Photo credit: Nick J...
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Quote From Vince Lombardi
“The good Lord gave you a body that can withstand almost anything, it is your mind that you have to convince.” VInce Lombardi Italian American (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Related articles Lombardi On...
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Question To Ponder About Mental Models
Do mental models point to one another? Mental Models (Photo credit: RocketRaccoon) Related articles Why Mental Models Matter (codecraft.co) Improving Discoverability (slideshare.net) Can A Blog Post Be...
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Notes From Annals Of Health Care: Big Med By Atul Gawande Part One
Cover via Amazon I am currently reading this article from the New Yorker Magazine and I actually have more questions after reading the article than before I read it. I understand Dr. Gawande’s premise...
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Statistics From The Cost Disease By William J. Baumol
I have recently finished this book and I wanted to share some eye-opening statistics with our readers. I found the book to be overly optimistic in regards to healthcare in the future but felt I...
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Reading For Building Mental Models
Under our pages on Articles of Interest and Books of Interest, we have begun adding ariticles and books that we feel will help you grow in knowledge and becoming an accomplished critical thinker. We...
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Quotes On Decision Making
“”Individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the recognized possibility of failure in fact occurs. But...
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More On Decision Making Part One
Back on September 21, 2012 we had our initial post on some principles of decision making from Robert Rubin and his Harvard Commencement Address from 2001. This was found in the book More Than You...
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More On Decision Making Part Two
Let’s continue on to principles numbers three and four: (3) Despite uncertainty, we must act. Most people believe the more information they have, the better decision they can make. However, studies...
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Quotes From Charles Munger
Charlie Munger (Photo credit: Wikipedia) “In the United State, a person or institution with almost all wealth invested, long term, in just three fine domestic corporations is securely rich.” “Appeal to...
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Questions To Ponder From The Book Spillover By David Quammen
This is from Page 45 of the book Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen Link “Why do strange new diseases emerge when they do, where they do, as they do, and not...
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Currently Reading January 23, 2013 Part Two
Michael Mauboussin (Photo credit: hukuzatuna) Currently Reading: “Interview with Michael Mauboussin: Harnessing The Power of Intuition, ” 2009, Pages;1-20 Author: Miguel Barbosa I have just gotten...
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Currently Reading January 24, 2013
English: Nate Silver in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) (1) The New York Review of Books “How He Got It Right” Andrew Hacker This is a review of the books : The Signal and the Noise: Why...
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Developing Mental Models Principle of Inversion
Charlie Munger (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The great 19th century mathematician Carl Jacobi introduced the principle of inversion to overcome tough problems. He would say, “Invert, always invert.”...
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