I spent 20 hours distilling Mental Models into easy-to-understand illustrations

Metadata

• Author: PJ Milani | Visual Teacher💡
• Full Title: I spent 20 hours distilling Mental Models into easy-to-understand illustrations
• Category: #articles
• Summary: I spent 20 hours distilling Mental Models into easy-to-understand illustrations.

Here’re 10 of them to help you make better decisions 🧵 :

1. Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule):

Simplified: the larger chunk of your results come from a small portion of what you’re doing

• URL: https://twitter.com/milanicreative/status/1649763219396001799

Highlights

• 2. Parkinson’s Law: Work expands to fill the time available to complete it. • If you have an hour, it takes an hour • If you have a week, it takes a week (View Highlight)
• 3. Grice’s Razor: Address what the person you’re speaking means, instead of the literal meaning of what they actually say (View Highlight)
• 4. Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect… even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law (View Highlight)
• 5. Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence (View Highlight)
• 6. The 5Ys Framework: Ask “why” five times to discover the real reason for a problem (View Highlight)
• Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of the work produced in any given field is low quality. (View Highlight)
• Brandolini’s Law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it. (View Highlight)
• Solomon’s Paradox: We’re better at solving other people’s problems than our own. (View Highlight)
• Occam’s Razor: Simplest explanation is usually best; avoid extra complications. (View Highlight)