Latticework of Mental Models
Charlies Munger advocates for building a "broad theoretical toolbox" that he calls a Latticework of Mental Models. The idea is to accumulate concepts from a …
Articles in the permanent category
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Teaching the whole game
Teaching the "whole game" uses the metaphor of baseball to highlight how common approaches to teaching are the equivalent of doing batting practice without ever …
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Topic Overview (Zettlekasten)
In Zettelkasten, the topic overview is a note that links to key Permanent Notesithin a topic. It is linked to via the index and …
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Adversarial Validation
A technique used to evalute how different the test set is to the training set, commonly used in Kaggle competitions to assess likelihood of a …
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Promotion vs Calibration
Some assume that the path to promotion is doing their current job well. However, promotion is about proving that you're capable of another job.
Hacker …
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Confirmation Bias
Our brains are naturally drawn to information that agrees with our world view. We end up surrounded by people that think like us and consume …
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Breaks Are Essential For Learning
According to Ahrens, who cites Doyle and Zakrajsek, breaks are not only opportunities for the brain to recover, they are essential for learning. They give …
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Growth Mindset
According to Carol Dweck, people are on a continuum between two ideas about acquiring skills: those with Fixed Mindset believe that all ability is fixed …
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Encapsulation
Encapsulation is the act of protecting code against invariant violations and a key component of a Well-Designed API.
"You cannot trust yourself to do the …
