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Mental Models

A collection of 2 posts

🛫 🇮🇳 Which Fighter Pilots Win

🛫 🇮🇳 Which Fighter Pilots Win

Can we learn to decide from fighter pilots? I think so. Fighter pilots face some of the most challenging decision-making environments, where all the factors that contribute to bad decision-making occur simultaneously: 1. Little or no time to decide 2. High-stakes and existential risk to life of their own and

How To Avoid Disastrous Decisions One Step At A Time: Second Order Thinking

How To Avoid Disastrous Decisions One Step At A Time: Second Order Thinking

I see most people make daily decisions like goldfish do— with a short memory, and zero foresight. But rational people? They try to think beyond the knee-jerk reaction and predict the chaos that could follow. This mental habit to foresee the consequences of your decisions, and the consequences of those