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#55 Scott Page: Becoming a Model Thinker

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Teaching Thinking Skills to Young Children

i talk about three models in the book. imagine things kind of like walk. One is, it'somethin called a preferential attachment model. A firm starts by somebody, you know, joining their firms. They're equally likely to fail or succeed depending on who they hire. And another way that power laws form is t is through random walk. You can imagine that most firms are going to die really quickly at some point and then go from there. So if your life could be summed up with one word: "tatswa," i think we would all agree this was an excellent title for a new book.

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