"backwards law" (often associated with Alan Watts and popularised in modern writing) is the idea that the more you pursue something directly — happiness, status, approval —...
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"backwards law" (often associated with Alan Watts and popularised in modern writing) is the idea that the more you pursue something directly — happiness, status, approval —...
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Mental Model5 Whys
why five times to find the systemic root cause.
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Mental ModelAll Models Are Wrong
model simplifies reality; the question is whether it is useful.
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technology short-term, underestimate it long-term.
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tasks by urgency and importance to focus on what truly matters.
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Mental ModelFirst Principles Thinking
a problem to its fundamental truths and reason up from there — the antidote to r
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a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.