Project Sherlock

Thinking & Personal Effectiveness

Mental Models & Frameworks

Portable structures for thinking about unfamiliar problems.

12 topics · 2 curated works

Topics

Curated reading

2

Start here

No prior grounding assumed.

  • Thinking in SystemsDonella Meadows, 2008

    Stocks, flows and feedback loops explain why well-intentioned interventions produce the opposite of their intent.

    Book

Then

Assumes you know the vocabulary.

  • Poor Charlie's AlmanackCharles T. Munger, 2005

    Build a latticework of models from many disciplines, and invert every problem before attempting to solve it forward.

    Book

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