Mental Model Monday and other tools for thinking.
I quite like this model. Autocatalysis is a model from chemistry, which occurs when a reaction speeds up on its own. Essentially one reaction creates another, which creates another, so on and so forth until at some point it tapers out. In business,…
Being bigger is better. We’re seeing this in the tech world right now, where companies like Facebook, Uber, Amazon and Google have reached scale and are dominating all their competitors. The gist of this is that companies can reach a…
I’m a big fan of Charlie Munger and think a lot of what he writes is pure gold. Today I’m busy launching a product in Rwanda, so don’t have much time to write. Instead, I give you something far better,…
Sure, this might sound like common sense. Writing down lists and prioritizing what’s on them is pretty standard getting things done 101. It’s what most people do. So here’s a twist on one that I think helps my lists. It’s…
One of Charlie Munger’s favorite stories is about the man who only wanted to know where he would die, so he would never go there. Inversion is all about solving a problem backward. Figure out each step from the end…
I realized in the confusion of coming back to South Africa I didn’t post a Mental Model Monday. Here’s a cheat sheet to make up for that. This is from Buster Benson, someone who tweets a lot of great stuff…
I quite like this model. Autocatalysis is a model from chemistry, which occurs when a reaction speeds up on its own. Essentially one reaction creates another, which creates another, so on and so forth until at some point it tapers…
I’m starting a new tradition here, after one of my role models – Fred Wilson. He used to write an MBA Monday section for his blog, AVC, which was great. I’ve decided to write about mental models, heuristics, and biases.…