Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

Re:Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by mikorym on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @09:32AM (#20212754)

Don't you think that by trading off complexity of the models you use general usefulness? For example, the 80-20 principle is not about the numbers 80 and 20, but it is just an x-y principle where 80 and 20 are areas of a (particular) curve. If you teach it as "the 80-20 principle" then maybe at best it's a mnemonic for some people in productivity.

I'm sorry, but I'm not a fan of productivity tools based on improperly formulated "rules" or "hints".

HNs anti-procrastinator is more precise and useful to me.

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Re:Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by fheld on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @09:39AM (#20212831)

I have never heard of "HNs anti-procrastinator" - can you point me somewhere?

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Re:Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by the-dude on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @10:58AM (#20213795)

It is in your profile: noprocrast, maxvisit, minaway

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Re:Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by dangThatSucks on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @07:06PM (#20219345)

Is that what they call "self documenting"?

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Re:Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by therealdrag0 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @11:33PM (#20220587)

I'm still confused. Can you elaborate.

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Re:Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by roryokane on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @03:22AM (#20221450)

Your profile is https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=therealdrag0. When you, the owner of that profile, visits it, you will see many settings. Among them are noprocrast (boolean), maxvisit (number of minutes), and minaway (number of minutes). When noprocrast is set to yes, Hacker News will refuse to load if you visit it too much, to help you avoid procrastination.

For the details of what each of those three settings means, visit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=814695.

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Re:Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by mikorym on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @03:03PM (#20217028)

I meant: "lose general usefulness"; i.e., lose generality.

Also, "HN's".

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