15 notes tagged with "rationality"


Status Quo Bias

We tend to favor decisions that continue the status quo. This is because of the comfort of the familiar.

Tagged With: #permanent-notes #cognitive-bias #psychedelics #rationality

Published on Sep 14, 2021

Get Better at Being Wrong

How to get better at being wrong...

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Published on Sep 14, 2021

Good Epistemic Habits

Instead of talking only about things that you are convinced about, talk also about things that you believe along with the path you took to arrive at your belief. You should convey your uncertainty in the belief if you have some.

Tagged With: #permanent-notes #knowledge #belief #epistemology #rationality

Published on Sep 02, 2021

Second-order thinking

This is a tool that makes you think of the long term consequences of your decisions. Process...

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Published on Jul 10, 2021

OODA Loop

Decision making process and Mental Model

Tagged With: #permanent-notes #mental-models #decision-making #rationality #competition

Published on May 24, 2021

One Level Higher

One Level Higher is a Mental Model that tries to go to a higher level of abstraction.

Tagged With: #permanent-notes #rationality #mental-models #systems-thinking

Published on May 08, 2021

Regret Minimization

Take the decision that will lead to the minimum regret over a long time frame.

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Published on May 08, 2021

Pareto Principle(80-20 Rule)

20% of the effort should create 80% of the output. To maximize ROI, invest in the 20%.

Tagged With: #permanent-notes #productivity #rationality #mental-models #framework #decision-making

Published on May 08, 2021

Eisenhower Matrix

Make a 2x2 grid with 2 axis - Important and Urgent. This is how you treat the four quadrants...

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Published on May 08, 2021

Mental Models

Mental Model is a simplified mental representation of a complex real world system.

Tagged With: #permanent-notes #framework #meta-cognition #rationality #mental-models

Published on May 07, 2021

Confidence to Convince Others

People think that you need absolute certainty when communicating your opinions to others for others to accept them. This is what I call evangelical mode. Julia Galef argues that it needn't be the case. There are two types of confidences...

Tagged With: #permanent-notes #rationality #confidence #persuasion

Published on May 07, 2021

Scout Mindset vs Soldier Mindset

Soldier mindset thinks of their ideas as the land to defend - and attacks other external ideas or evidence that threaten their idea.

Tagged With: #permanent-notes #rationality #mindset #meta-cognition

Published on May 07, 2021

Map vs Territory

Map is a simplified representation of the reality(territory) in someone's mind. People generally confuse map for territory - but Map is not the territory.

Tagged With: #rationality #map #nlp #permanent-notes #meta-cognition

Published on Dec 18, 2020

Bullshit filters

Source These are heuristics, not hard-and-fast rules.

Tagged With: #filters #heuristics #literature-notes #mental-models #rationality

Published on Nov 28, 2020

Motivated Reasoning

Motivated Reasoning is a Cognitive bias - we tend to accept/believe more easily and with less scrutiny things we think are correct. If we encounter an idea that we think is wrong, we subject it to more scrutiny - it has a higher bar to clear for us to accept it.

Tagged With: #rationality #reasoning #permanent-notes #psychology #cognitive-bias

Published on Jul 21, 2020