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 ...
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.
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: 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…
The Mental Model FAQ
A summary of the conclusions from my Putting Mental Models to Practice series. What are mental models? How did mental models become so popular?
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.
Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence? | Quanta Magazine
Computer scientist Melanie Mitchell discusses why artificial intelligence doesn’t “think” or “reason” like humans, and how we can create better methods for measuring machine cognition.
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
2025 UPDATE: I’m writing again. Please join me at Substack.
AI Sycophancy and Decisions
We examine whether sycophantic AI advice distorts decisions. Our experiment involves 1,500 participants in 30 decision environments spanning core domains in eco
Mental models for working with coding agents
Model intelligence sets the ceiling. Your workflow with the agent harness sets what you actually ship.
Thinking Fast, Slow, Artificially: AI and Your Brain
AI can boost your decisions — or quietly undermine them. Wharton researchers introduce a new theory of cognition that every leader needs to understand.
Cognitive Bias Lab | Learn to Make Better Decisions
Explore cognitive biases with interactive tests, simulations, and real-world examples. Free platform to sharpen decision-making and critical thinking — no sign-up needed.
Opinion | Can You Get Smarter? (Published 2015)
There is much that you can do to keep cognitively sharp.
Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender
People increasingly consult generative artificial intelligence (AI) while reasoning. As AI becomes embedded in daily thought, what becomes of human judgment? We
How to safely think in systems.
While there are a decent number of folks out there modeling systems, there’s a much larger group of folks who think of themselves as systems thinkers but utilize techniques like modeling rather casually (a polite way of saying that they don’t use them). Even with modeling tools available, I’ve often taken the shortcut of intuitive modeling, which over time has given me quite the education in making well-intentioned reasoning errors.
Models
Amp uses the best model for each task: leading generalist foundation models for complex reasoning and planning, and smaller specialized models for fast, accurate responses in specific domains.
