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Frameworks
Mental-model cheatsheets and methods I actually use.
Jun 24, 2025 go-to-questions 50 deep questions by archetype (Founder/Philosopher/Seeker) Sep 29, 2024 strategies to remember people name Mnemonic techniques (Carnegie/Lorayne/Foer/O'Brien) Sep 8, 2024 knowledge Personal knowledge self-assessment across physics/info/computation Sep 1, 2024 true vs false louis True self vs false self contrast table Aug 23, 2024 Invert Processes for Efficiency Measure first, then optimize Jun 23, 2024 breaking from your environment Environment programs the brain; escape or reprogram Jun 9, 2024 Visualizing Success on a Treadmill - A Morning Routine Inspired by Napoleon Hill Napoleon Hill treadmill visualization protocol May 24, 2024 growth is math All growth is measurable (fitness/wealth/relationships) Apr 11, 2024 think and grow rich Hill's 13 principles distilled to actions Apr 3, 2024 pre event cheat codes Pre-performance physiology/mental toolkit Jan 25, 2024 living an assymetric life Four principles for asymmetric risk/reward living Nov 12, 2023 Extended Phenotype Dawkins: genes' effects extend beyond the organism Sep 16, 2023 idea meritocracy Ego-less debate, belief-weighted decisions (Dalio) Sep 7, 2023 Build products User delight over scale; support as feedback loop Sep 1, 2023 non escalator cofounder relationship menu Cofounder-alignment checklist Aug 30, 2023 how to sell Prospecting via adoption curve; cold email; persistence Aug 11, 2023 new front end dev workflow w ai Expansion/Contraction pattern for AI-assisted frontend Aug 10, 2023 magic Advanced tech as magic; intuition shaped by basic physics May 27, 2023 Introducing a new language to bind cross modalities qbind language proposal for multimodal binding Apr 24, 2023 Attention and conciousness in the mind vs in LLMs Transformer attention vs Damasio's covert/conscious attention Mar 8, 2023 Hyperparameter search in startup ML hyperparameter search applied to startup strategy Feb 27, 2023 Software 3.0 llm leverage Leverage tiers: dev 10x, Google dev 1000x, LLM dev 1000x Jan 25, 2023 Mentorship Mentorship best-practices + mentee prompts
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— Coco Chanel Mental Models Cheatsheet Chanel as system-builder: narrative control, first-principles, leverage — Constructor theory Marletto: systems as constructors of energy/information — Environment design Associate up; add/remove friction by behavior — Habit Habit as system (Atomic Habits) + personal hard-habit list — Interventionism Harmful interventionist patterns (Taleb-flavored) — Learning blockchain vs learning AI Blockchain (narrow, unproven) vs AI (autonomous discovery) — Learning roadmap for your life Timeline learning roadmap; explore vs exploit — Louis building heuristics Heuristics for shipping OSS MVPs and LLM-assisted refactoring — Low Kolmogorov complexity human reverse engineering tool Minimal-prompt personality discovery (Maslow-mapped) — Mental model cheatsheet Comprehensive mental-models reference (decision/systems/markets) — Metaphors are data augmentation Metaphor as knowledge augmentation across mental models — Outcome vs output development Output (polished, siloed) vs outcome (holistic, messy) dev — Performance optimization Bottleneck taxonomy: CPU/network/disk/GPU/memory-bound — Reducing friction in human machine interfaces Test UX with naive users to find friction — Maintaining inertia Focus as momentum; interruptions break escape velocity