4.2 · Mental Models & Systems Thinking

Thinking, Learning & Decisions · 4.2

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Thinking in Systems

Donella Meadows

Stocks, flows, feedback loops, leverage points. My hierarchy says "systems thinking" five times without ever defining it. This defines it — and it will change how I read my own life document.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Foundational on cognitive bias. The priming and social-priming chapters did not replicate, and Kahneman publicly acknowledged that section was built on too-weak evidence. The System 1/System 2 frame and the prospect-theory work stand.

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The Great Mental Models, Vol. 1

Shane Parrish

Compact and well-chosen. One model per session.

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Poor Charlie’s Almanack

Charlie Munger

The multidisciplinary latticework, plus the psychology-of-misjudgement talk. Browse; don’t march.

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