Mental Models
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Ten Virtues for the Modern Age
The Virtues Project comes as a response to the wave of discussion and feedback that followed the publication of my book, Religion for Atheists , and a growing sense that being virtuous has become a strange and depressing notion, while wickedness and evil bask in a peculiar kind of glamour.
Category mistake
A category mistake , or category error , is a semantic or ontological error in which "things of one kind are presented as if they belonged to another", [ 1 ] or, alternatively, a property is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property.Y Combinator: Elementary Worldly Wisdom
A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business Charles Munger, USC Business School, 1994 I'm going to play a minor trick on you today because the subject of my talk is the art of stock picking as a subdivision of the art of worldly wisdom.
If we eliminate system one, system two isn't going to get the job done because you can't live by system two.
