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Mental Models

Core models for tradeoffs, safety, incentives, and compounding.

First Principles Thinking

Reason from constraints and irreducible facts before reaching for analogy.

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Opportunity Cost

Every choice spends the best alternative you did not take.

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Margin of Safety

Leave room for error when the world is uncertain and your model is incomplete.

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Circle of Competence

Knowing the boundary of what you understand is itself an advantage.

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Incentives

Behavior follows rewards, penalties, status, and friction more often than stated intent.

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Compound Interest

Small gains, repeated and protected from interruption, become nonlinear.

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Inversion

Solve hard problems by asking what would guarantee failure and avoiding it.

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