The Power of Social Hierarchies

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Spencer: One thing I think made my childhood significantly happier is that I was always part of multiple social groups in high school. If you're only part of one social hierarchy, then you'd kind of think of yourself as however that social hierarchy views you. But if you're part of let's say three social hierarchies simultaneously, in one of them you might be cool and another one you might be nerdy but they all can kind of view differently. It makes you realize oh I'm not kind of bounded by the way I'm viewed in this hierarchy or whatever it is.

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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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