A summary of the conclusions from my Putting Mental Models to Practice series. What are mental models? How did mental models become so popular?
What are Mental Models? — updated 2026
Harness the power of understanding and predicting user behavior with mental models. Simplify systems and enhance decision-making in your designs.
A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice
A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice is a series that examines the idea of putting Charlie Munger's Elementary Worldly Wisdom to practice in one's life in the pursuit of better decision making.
Mental Models: How to Train Your Brain to Think in New Ways
You can train your brain to think better. One of the best ways to do this is to expand the set of mental models you use to think. Let me…
Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (~100 Models Explained)
The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...
Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (~100 Models Explained)
The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...
The Great Mental Models
The Great Mental Models project is the clearest way to change the way you see the world, avoid problems before they happen, and make better decisions.
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
2025 UPDATE: I’m writing again. Please join me at Substack.
Mental Models and User Experience Design
What users believe they know about a user interface impacts how they use it. Mismatched mental models are common, especially with designs that try something new.
You Have to Type It Out — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho
For many kinds of learning, actually writing or typing out the exercises is an essential part of internalizing a mental model. You cannot skip it!
PsychoModels
We aim to create a database that encourages sharing, reusing, and extending computational implementations of formal models in psychology.By creating a platform designed for productive exchange within modeling groups and between modelers and empirical researchers, modeling practices among researchers will flourish and expand.
Why I believe current AI models can really think and understand - Part 1 of 2
How the human mind is different from our conception of it
On thinking machines
While Chiron Codex is about the application of LLMs and AI-augmented tools, we also need to understand their meaning to us, each other, and society. I have three topics: intelligence,...
Conceptual Models: The Hidden Structure Behind Your Next Great Interface
Discover the hidden structure behind every great UI. Master how to use conceptual models to design systems that users instantly understand and grow to trust.
Useful Mental Model: Normal Distribution - Scott H Young
Some ideas are so powerful once you know them, you start to see them everywhere. Normal distributions are one of these ideas. Let's understand it!
Mental models for working with coding agents
Model intelligence sets the ceiling. Your workflow with the agent harness sets what you actually ship.
