The Evolution of Style

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Spencer: If you're poisonous, you really want to communicate that to other animals. He says it might be cheaper evolutionarily to get the same patterns as the poisonous animal than to actually become poisonous. Spencer: The cool people staying in the know and then being mimicked and then changing again so they can't be mimicked is a brilliant evolutionarily efficient move.

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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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