A lot of people have taken ideas from one field and applied them successfully to another. I don't know what percentage of great discoveries come from within a field versus someone like kind of cross applying, but certainly both seem to happen. One thing I think about is just how reality doesn't care at all about the way academics divvy up disciplines. If you go outside in nature, there are no clean lines anywhere, right? It's all unified. It's all whole.
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What is a mental model? What are "the three buckets"? How can Galilean relativity and alloying apply to non-science parts of life? What is the goal-gradient hypothesis? Why is it useful to know about signalling, especially in a social context? How can the concept of marginal safety apply outside of investing? More generally, why should people learn about mental models?
Blas Moros is writer, thinker, and entrepreneur. He's the CEO of Frontier and the founder of Latticework. Find more about him at blas.com, or follow him on Twitter at @blasmoros.
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