Mental Model Lollapalooza Catalogue

A repository of the articles I’ve written about mental models

David R. Phillips
1 min readJan 21, 2021

The Mental Model Lollapalooza Catalogue

The articles are categorised by field. As this is a work in progress, I’ve added both the articles that are published (in bold and underlined) and the titles of the other articles so you can see what’s still to come.

The main article, explaining the overall purpose of this project can be found here.

Physics

The Scientific Method
Equilibrium
Critical mass
Thermodynamics

Mathematics

Compound Interest (Exponential Growth)
Combinations and Permutations
Bayes’ Theorem
Power Laws (Fat-tailed Distributions)
Networks
Game Theory
Leverage
Complex Systems
Regression to the mean

Chemistry

Autocatalysis

Engineering

Margin of Safety
Feedback
Redundancy
Checklists

Biology

Evolution and the Genetic Algorithm

General Thinking

Inversion

Philosophy

Factfulness
Cloning
Stoicism

Economics

Principles of Economics

Competitive Advantages (Moats)

Comparative Advantage

Psychology

Conditioning

Biases
Influence & Persuasion

Biographies (coming soon)

Charlie Munger
John D. Rockefeller
Richard Feynman
Albert Einstein

Reading Lists (coming soon)

Charlie Munger
Warren Buffett
Bill Gates
Value Investing

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