“Ideas” is certainly a rangy and diffuse topic, but this stub serves as a hub for common ideas/Mental Models/thoughts that resonate with me or I find useful for interpreting the world. To that end Interesting Mental Models and Axioms catalogs some of my favorites. The Favorite Quotes page are pithy encapsulation of favorite ideas.
- You are the CEO of yourself
- Location, vocation, relation
- Wrong way risk
- Wealth Plus
- Ulysses contracts
- The Cost of Efficiency
- The Endowment Effect
- Temporal discounting
- Schelling Point
- Pie Problem
- Picks and Shovels
- OODA Loop
- Never letter a good crisis go to waste
- Monkeys and Pedestals
- Micro-pessimist, macro-optimist
- Crusonia Plant
- Company-Team-Self
- Collective Action Problem
- Chatham House Rule
- Capabilities model for prioritization
- Black Swan Event
- Apple Pie Position
- The principle of requisite variety