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Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (~100 Models Explained)
 Mental models help us understand the world. For example, velocity is a mental model that helps you understand that both speed and direction matter. Reciprocity is a mental model that helps you understand how going positive and going first gets the world to do most of the work for you. Margin of Safety is a mental model that helps you understand that things don’t always go as planned. Relativity is a mental model that shows us we have blind spots and how a different perspective can reveal new information. The list goes on.
Think of each model as a lens through which you can see the world. Each lens offers a different perspective, revealing new information. Looking through one lens lets you see one thing, and looking through another reveals something different. Looking through them both reveals more than each one individually.
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WorkApple needs time to be on its side for AI iPhones - WSJ (No paywall) That is the reality for a company with a $3 trillion-plus market cap that depends on a singular product line for more than half of its business. Apple has made some worthy efforts over the past several years to whittle away that dependence—services, Apple Watch and AirPods have all helped. But a segment that sells more than 200 million phones in an off year at average prices now nearing $1,000 each casts a very large shadow. The iPhone business on its own would rank as the 15th-largest company on the S&P 500 based on revenue for the 12-month period ended June—larger than Chevron, Ford or General Motors, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Work
WorkWork4 Pillars of Innovation Every Organization Needs - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)Innovation doesn’t just come from serendipity. Leaders who nurture great ideas rely on concrete mechanisms to ensure that they see the right ideas, give them breathing room to development, and connect dots throughout their organizations. In any company, the challenge with innovation is seldom the volume of ideas. The challenge lies with having ideas that are related to emerging trends, involve more than the company can do on its own, require nurturing, and are cross-functional in nature. Through interviews with 50 leaders across industries, the author observed patterns of successful innovation repeat across highly distinct settings. Those patterns are what he calls the four pillars of innovation. If you’re struggling to nurture the right ideas, creating these four pillars for innovation can improve the odds that you’ll have high-quality ideas in your pipeline.
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WorkWhy are Remainers so weak in post-Brexit Britain? - The Economist (No paywall)It first became obvious that Sir Keir Starmer wanted to be prime minister on September 25th 2018. The Labour Party was holding its annual conference in Liverpool. Theresa May’s government was slowly disintegrating over Brexit. Under Jeremy Corbyn, Sir Keir’s predecessor as party leader, Labour was keeping its position on holding a second referendum purposely opaque. From the stage Sir Keir shattered that ambiguity, departing from his approved script with the words: “And nobody is ruling out Remain as an option!” Pro-EU delegates gave him a long, defiant ovation. A year and a half later, they would elect him as their leader on a promise to “defend free movement”. Unreconciled Remainers did not stop Brexit; they did shape the Labour Party. WorkHow Drake Lost the Plot - The New Yorker (No paywall)Has there ever been as clear a loser as Drake? When his long-standing cold war with Kendrick Lamar turned into a full-on feud, this past spring, the stakes seemed relatively low. Both artists appeared immune from actual consequence, a pair of megastars playing chicken with Monopoly money. Lamar, a Pulitzer Prize recipient and the winner of seventeen Grammys, is rap’s de-facto laureate, a linguistic prodigy with a love of free jazz and theatrical concept albums. Drake, on the other hand, is an unflagging hitmaker with as many No. 1 singles as Michael Jackson, a genre-fluid Lothario whose forays into nineties R. & B., Caribbean dancehall, and U.K. grime have come to define the contemporary pop-music canon. Despite representing different factions within hip-hop, the pair have spent a decade indirectly jockeying for position as their generation’s greatest rapper. But in March, a few months after J. Cole claimed, on Drake’s song “First Person Shooter,” that he, Drake, and Lamar were the “big three,” Lamar voiced his resentment on a guest verse for Future and Metro Boomin, asserting that “it’s just big me.” So began the months-long Drake-Lamar dispute (Cole quickly bowed out), which culminated in “Not Like Us,” Lamar’s knockout blow. The song, with sing-along refrains about Drake being a pedophile, and its supplementary materials—a didactic music video and a live-streamed concert—solidified Lamar as the victor. For a diss track, it has achieved a level of unthinkable popularity: last month, California used it as one of its state songs during the Democratic National Convention roll call.
WorkWhy Nvidia triggered a stock market freakoutIndependent journalism is more important than ever. Vox is here to explain this unprecedented election cycle and help you understand the larger stakes. We will break down where the candidates stand on major issues, from economic policy to immigration, foreign policy, criminal justice, and abortion. We’ll answer your biggest questions, and we’ll explain what matters — and why. This timely and essential task, however, is expensive to produce. WorkThe 100 Most Influential People in AI 2024Reporters: Vera Bergengruen, Harry Booth*, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow, Katharine Gammon, Chad de Guzman, Caroline Haskins, Garrison Lovely, Billy Perrigo, Tharin Pillay*, Astha Rajvanshi, Yasmeen Serhan, and Stephen Thomas
WorkWorkWaymo's Robot Taxis Are Almost Mainstream. Can They Now Turn a Profit?Once a novelty service that opened last year for limited downtown trips, Waymo rides are now open to the general public, ubiquitous on the city’s hilly roads. The company, which is owned by Google’s parent, Alphabet, has also expanded onto California freeways and into Los Angeles.
WorkThe First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change | Quanta MagazineAt 11:30 one night in May 2024, a graduate student, Chuankun Zhang, saw a signal that physicists have sought for 50 years. As a peak rose from the static on his monitor at the research institute JILA in Boulder, Colorado, Zhang dropped a screenshot in a group chat with his three lab mates. One by one they hopped out of bed and trickled in. After several sanity checks to make sure that what they were looking at was real — a signal from a thorium-229 nucleus switching between two states, known as the “nuclear clock” transition — the young researchers took a selfie to commemorate the moment. Time stamp: 3:42 a.m. WorkStrength training activates cellular waste disposal, interdisciplinary research reveals
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WorkWork WorkStart-Up Investors Push Back Against Venture Capital's Bigger-Is-Better MantraBut that changed in recent years as investors poured billions of dollars into unproven start-ups with little diligence and investment firms expanded rapidly into new strategies and geographies. Last year, venture capital managed $1.1 trillion, up from $297 billion in 2013, according to PitchBook, which tracks start-ups. WorkSalesforce to acquire startup Own for $1.9 billion in cash\"We\'re going to be looking at products organically, but, yes, we will continue to look at products inorganically,\" Benioff told analysts on Salesforce\'s May earnings call. \"But as we\'ve committed to you, if we\'re looking at a large-scale acquisition, we\'re going to make sure that it is not dilutive to our customers, that it\'s accretive, that it has the right metrics.\" WorkWorkRussian TV presenter charged with violating US sanctions and money laundering“These defendants allegedly violated sanctions that were put in place in response to Russia’s illegal aggression in Ukraine,” the US attorney Matthew Graves said in a statement. “Such violations harm our national security interests – a fact that Dimitri Simes, with the deep experience he gained in national affairs after fleeing the Soviet Union and becoming a US citizen, should have uniquely appreciated.” WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkZamp targets growing demand for sales tax solutions | TechCrunchZamp is not alone in the market for sales tax compliance solutions for startups, particularly SaaS businesses. Its primary competitor is Anrok, backed by Khosla Ventures and Sequoia. Anrok, founded four years ago, may be slightly older and larger — having recently raised a $30 million Series B — but Zamp’s rapid growth indicates there is room for multiple players in this space. WorkWorkTrump Media's 69% Plunge Wipes Out Billions Before Lockups EndIt is illegal for US sportsbooks to set odds on American elections. But offshore gambling sites can take those bets, so there’s active wagering globally on the outcome of the vote. Bettors give Trump a 48% chance of winning, up from 43% on Aug. 12 but well below the peak at 69% on July 15 shortly after the assassination attempt, according to PredictIt data. But they give Democrat Harris a 53% chance of winning, up from 13% on July 15, PredictIt data show. WorkWorkThe US economy may be on 'thinner' ice than investors thinkUltimately, his view is one of caution: \"With what we saw for the last two years with this market backdrop, from these valuation levels, and based on where I think we are in the business cycle, I think we\'re going to be in choppy waters for a little bit.\" WorkWorkWorkKids Should Be Taught to Think Logically - Scientific American (No paywall)In World War II’s most desperate months, the mathematician Alan Turing assembled a team of codebreakers to decrypt intercepted Nazi messages. He tested applicants with chess puzzles, hired a classicist and steered away from applied mathematicians, instead looking for staff good at solving logical puzzles. His team played a vital, long-secret role in Allied success in the war. WorkU.N.C. Reports Declines in Black and Hispanic EnrollmentThe Supreme Court’s decision to curb considerably the use of race in admissions last summer shook higher education, forcing admissions offices from coast to coast to rethink their procedures. But the cases before the justices focused on only two schools, one private and one public, both with extraordinary pedigrees: Harvard, the country’s oldest university, and North Carolina, which, in 1798, became the first public university in the United States to confer degrees. WorkU.S. Charges American Commentator Who Works for Russian State TVThe Biden administration has been making a broad push against what it says is a concerted effort by Russia to influence the fall vote. American intelligence officials have said Russia’s president, Mr. Putin, considers November’s election critical because of Democratic support for Ukraine, which Russian troops invaded more than two years ago. WorkU.K. Prosecutors Drop Indecent Assault Case Against Harvey WeinsteinIn April, New York’s highest court overturned Mr. Weinstein’s 2020 felony sex crimes conviction, ruling that the original judge had deprived him of a fair trial. The court said that the original judge should not have let prosecutors call witnesses who said that Mr. Weinstein had assaulted them when their accusations did not form part of the case. WorkNicaragua Releases 135 Political Prisoners on Humanitarian GroundsThe Mountain Gateway pastors were arrested in December after completing an eight-city evangelical crusade that cost $4 million and was attended by nearly a million people. The pastors were sentenced to 12 or 15 years in prison, and fined a total of nearly $1 billion. WorkWorkBlinken Visits a Haiti Wracked by Corruption and GangsThose failures, as well as a legacy of colonialism, help explain why the United States has played a supporting role behind Kenya’s deployment of police officers, now numbering about 380 in the country. That is well behind a stated goal of 2,500 personnel, to which at least six other nations have said they would contribute. WorkTrump says Elon Musk has agreed to lead a commission to slash government spendingMusk in 2017 resigned from his spot on Trump’s White House advisory councils after the then-president withdrew from the Paris climate agreement, calling the move “not good for America or the world.” In an interview with Trump earlier this month, Musk said climate change wasn’t an issue that needed immediate attention and walked back his earlier, harsher comments on the oil and gas industry. WorkJetBlue says it actually got a boost from the CrowdStrike meltdownWhen the likes of American Airlines, Spirit Airlines, and especially Delta Air Lines were struggling with extensive delays and cancellations — the latter says it lost $500 million behind the mess — JetBlue’s systems weren’t affected. That means it was able to take on bookings for stranded flyers who didn’t want to deal with waiting for other carriers to carry them to their destinations. WorkWorkWork TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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