My early afternoon today was spent in a hospital visiting someone very close to me recovering from surgery. As I was looking around at the capacity of the facility, it dawned on me that the quantity of coffee necessary to serve all of these people would require a reconstitution, grind-free system that had a reasonable…
Mental Model: Calibration Errors Calibration errors are when people lack the genetic or cultural ability to calibrate communication based upon the situation, people involved, or other contextual clues. To understand calibration errors as a mental model, it might help to give you three real-world scenarios that would require the observer to calibrate the hyperbole. A…
The key to being fantastic at your chosen field is to reach what Charlie Munger called “testable fluency” in the basics so that you are able to perform the higher ideas like a meastro. This concept is simple: Mozart was able to compose so brilliantly because he could play almost anything by sight or ear.…