There are tens of thousands of mental models, and every discipline has their own set that you can learn through coursework, mentorship, or first-hand experience.
There is a much smaller set of concepts, however, that come up repeatedly in day-to-day decision making, problem solving, and truth seeking.
Month: July 2016
In the post-factual democracy, politicians win by getting feelings right and facts wrong — Quartz
An appealing story may get likes and upvotes on social media regardless, and the social validation of a given narrative can be turned into votes.
But believing something doesn’t make it so—and a lot of people believing the same thing doesn’t make something true either.
Source: In the post-factual democracy, politicians win by getting feelings right and facts wrong — Quartz
US immigration policy has totally lost touch with US immigration reality — Quartz
This shift in the type of illegal immigrant has put a strain on the US immigration system. Mexican economic migrants can simply be dropped off on the Mexican side of the border after being caught, but Central Americans claiming asylum must go through a slower and more complicated process.
Source: US immigration policy has totally lost touch with US immigration reality — Quartz
4 ways to get motivated when you don’t feel like… – Planio Blog
- Use your memories
- Create a pre-game routine
- Make it so easy you can’t say no.
- Include physical movement.
- Repeat it every time.
- Rely on teammates
- Put something at risk
Source: 4 ways to get motivated when you don’t feel like… – Planio Blog
Just A New Fractal Detail In The Big Picture – Edge.org
I have a huge amount of experience in being ignorant and not worrying about it. In fact, what I call “understanding” turns out to be “managing my ignorance more effectively.”
My untroubled attitude results from my almost absolute faith in the reliability of the vast supercomputer I’m permanently plugged into. It was built with the intelligence of thousands of generations of human minds, and they’re still working at it now. All that human intelligence remains alive in the form of the supercomputer of tools, theories, technologies, crafts, sciences, disciplines, customs, rituals, rules-of-thumb, arts, systems of belief, superstitions, work-arounds, and observations that we call Global Civilisation.
Isn’t the vast structure of competences and potentialities thus created indistinguishable from “artificial intelligence”? The type that digital computers make is just a new fractal detail in the big picture, just the latest step. We’ve been living happily with artificial intelligence for thousands of years.
Source: Just A New Fractal Detail In The Big Picture – Edge.org