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Learning
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The Latticework of Mental Models
What is elementary, worldly wisdom? Well, the first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang…
Isolated facts become usable only when arranged on a latticework of theory.
Cognition · Learning · Decision · Modern investor letters
The Project of Moral Perfection
It was about this time I conceiv'd the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection.
Character can be trained through a deliberate, auditable project.
Character · Learning · Action · Entrepreneur memoirs
Connecting the Dots
You can only connect them looking backward, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
The dots of life connect only in hindsight, so trust is required in advance.
Learning · Philosophy · Action · Entrepreneur memoirs
The Foundation of Innovation
创新的基础还是学术自由，有自由的学术思想、自由的研究方向，这是很重要的。
Innovation depends on academic freedom and free research directions.
Learning · Leadership · Growth · Entrepreneur memoirs
Multiple Models and the Hammer
What are the models? Well, the first rule is that you've got to have multiple models—because if you just have one or two that you're using, the…
Using only one or two models makes you distort reality to fit them.
Cognition · Decision · Learning · Modern investor letters
Models from Many Disciplines
And the models have to come from multiple disciplines—because all the wisdom of the world is not to be found in one little academic department.
Worldly wisdom requires models drawn from many disciplines, not one department.
Learning · Cognition · Philosophy · Modern investor letters