Mental models are not slogans. They are reusable distinctions that help a person notice what would otherwise be missed: incentives, feedback loops, opportunity cost, second-order effects, character, and the limits of knowledge.
This page gathers the essays on this site that are most useful as a working lattice of judgment.
Free Guide
50 Mental Models for Long-Term Investors is a free PDF guide and index page for readers who want the core models in one place.
Munger And Multidisciplinary Thinking
Character And Inner Scorecard
- The Inner Scorecard
- Character: The Only Edge That Compounds
- Delayed Gratification
- Quaker Simplicity And The Art Of Enough
Philosophy As Practical Judgment
- The Stoic Investor
- Seneca's Warning
- Kant's Starry Heavens And Moral Law
- Spinoza's Lens Grinder
- Benjamin Franklin's Thirteen Virtues
How To Use This Page
Read one essay at a time, then ask what the idea would forbid you to do. A useful mental model narrows foolish action before it expands clever action.