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Do you use any mental models for Indie Hacking ?

Just finished this audiobook from Shane Parrish and it’s a great listen.

Warren Buffet's partner Charlie Munger is also a big believer in mental models and attributes much of his success to using them.

What are mental models?
A mental model is an explanation of how something w

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    Nice write up. Yeah I'm big on this. Allows you to think in systems. Let me through another into the mix, The Lindy Effect:

    A theory that the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things like a technology or an idea is proportional to their current age. How does this apply to business. For example.

    Twitter has been around for 12 years, therefore you'd estimate its lifespan will be another 12 years. Carlsberg beer has been around for 200 years. Therefore you'd bet its lifespan will be another 200 years.

    Also applies well to books. All these cutting edge, New York Times bestseller 2019 books, are here today and gone tomorrow. You want to read "Lindy" books. Books which have stood the test of time. For example, don't listen to daily vlogs from Gary Vee. Read about the life of J D Rockerfeller.

    Listened to a good podcast on mental models today actually => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_56L8EGLIk . A lot of the one's you raised cropped up.

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      Yeah, Lindy is a great one especially applied to books, I'm currently reading the biography of Benjamin Franklin. Shane has a huge list of them under different categories
      https://fs.blog/mental-models/ .

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    I really want to spend more time studying mental models properly.

    I came across MMWeekly recently - http://www.mmweekly.com/

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      That looks like a great playlist, I've added it o my watch list, thanks.

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