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Re:Mental Model Fallacy (2018) by selfselfself on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @05:05PM (#22950176)
> When Warren Buffett studies a company, he doesn’t see a checklist of mental models he has to apply

He's probably trying to explain the guidance from Farnam Street. The most popular answer on their internal forum on how to use/apply mental models was to treat mental models as checklist. I was a Farnam Street member until last year.

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Re:Mental Model Fallacy (2018) by gloryless on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @05:08PM (#22950207)
He's definitely trying to explain something, he just isn't sure what it is
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Re:Mental Model Fallacy (2018) by selfselfself on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @05:16PM (#22950281)
Agree that writing could have been clearer and much more concise
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