This is one of those lists that would be completely unhelpful if you don't already know how to use most of what's on the list.

Agreed. It's as helpful as the other post on list of free online programming books. Needs more handholding to help people make the best use of the list.

This is the first link I found of this speech (it's called "Practical Thoughts about Practical Thought"), but its an application of combining mental models from many disciplines from the man himself:

http://mungerisms.blogspot.com/2010/04/charlie-munger-turnin...

Once you fully understand them, you may find yourself incorporating them into your thought process without explicitly calling upon it.

Yep. Most of these models are thought-out explanations of how not-thought-out reasoning frequently goes very wrong. If you understand that this is a list of bugs in your initial gut reactions, you can recognize when and why you are about to make a mistake.