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Better methods to think better, and to be less wrong.
One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that looks like in practice.
Thinking is split roughly into pattern matching against experience, and reasoning from first principles. Here's one argument for why you need both.
A thinking trap for those of us who are analytical.
The simplest, most useful form of Charlie Munger's 'Inversion' that I've found is to use negative screens in my career. Here's what that looks like.
How learning and using the four theories of truth can help us become better thinkers, better practitioners, and (hopefully!) better writers.
When you're faced with uncertainty, the best thing you can do is analyse your inputs, synthesise a new model, and then destroy it to start over again.
Why the Internet has driven writing to sound ever more insightful, how writers accomplish this, and what to do about it.