How to Create a Mental Model Community

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Spencer: So there are, we're calling them disciplines. Those are things like worldly wisdom, physics, chemistry and then there are ideas that fall into each of those disciplines. There's a kind of community they can join with what work with others to kind of go deeper on these? Spencer: We get people together who are thoughtful, kind, caring and kind of have this multidisciplinary street within them to get together.

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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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