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Re:Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful by oh_sigh on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @12:00AM (#12041132)
Once you fully understand them, you may find yourself incorporating them into your thought process without explicitly calling upon it.
Re:Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful by corysama on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @12:22AM (#12041194)
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.