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What is confirmation bias?

Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek out information that supports preexisting views. Confirmation bias, myside bias, or observational selection is our tendency to seek out, favour, and recall information that supports our existing beliefs. It stops us from assimilating new opposing information into our worldview as easily as new supporting information. And the effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and deep-seeded beliefs.

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What are mental models?

Mental models are explanations of how things work. Last week I realised I didn’t do a great job of outlining what mental models are and why they are useful. I hope to remedy that this week. Mental models are explanations of how things work. They shape how we think, how we understand new information, and how we assimilate new information into what we already know.

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Welcome to Abi's blog

Introducing Mental Models and Objective Key Results (OKRs). It’s been a few months since my last post, I’ve been busy at Spaceship . While I’ve been away, I’ve been thinking about what I want my blog to be and I moved it and my email list to Substack . As an aside, Substack is Stratechery -as-a-Service. They make it easy to focus on writing content and not on how I’ll automate the process of sending out an email after each post.

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Reading List

This page is dedicated to the books I've read. If you think there is something I should explore, please suggest in the comments. I used to read one book every few months or so until I found audiobooks and realised I could speed them to 3x (like I do with podcasts) and still get good comprehension (probably better than I do when I read from a book). Since then, I've been "reading" while riding the train to work, at the gym, and pretty much any time I can stick my AirPods in my ears.

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