The Great Mental Models Volume 3: Systems and Mathematics
by Shane Parrish and Rhiannon Beaubien
Feedback loops, bottlenecks, margin of safety, churn, compounding, sampling, randomness, regression to the mean. The most practical volume for decisions.
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you want systems and math models for everyday judgment.
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Three things you will actually use
- Find the bottleneck.
- Margin of safety.
- Regression to the mean fools everyone.
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Find the bottleneck in one process you run.
Our verdict
Systems and math models.
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