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There has been an uptick in self-help books and blogs about mental models. But, there's a problem when putting it in practice.

Perceptual exposure is the rare learning technique that allows you to learn tacit knowledge — that is, knowledge that can't be communicated. And it begins with a simple question: how do you tell if a chick is male or female?

A summary of everything I know on the topic of building career moats.

Regret minimisation is often in direct conflict with optimising for career outcomes. A short reflection.

The mental model fallacy is that it’s worth it to read descriptions of mental models, written and aggregated by non-practitioners, in the pursuit of self-improvement and success. It isn't.

If Seymour Papert was right about how humans learn — what does it mean for learning mental models for our careers?

'Head fake questions' are a useful tool to avoid the opportunity cost that comes from making bad career moves. Here's how to use them.

Six surprising implications from treating self-help as technê.

Cal Newport argues that great careers come from building rare & valuable skills. But what does 'rare & valuable’ actually mean?

Writers seem smarter than they are because the act of writing is the act of thinking clearly. This doesn't make them geniuses.