{"id":560,"date":"2019-02-11T10:21:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T08:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:21:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T08:21:17","slug":"mental-model-monday-crash-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/mental-model-monday-crash-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Model Monday: Crash Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week\u2019s mental model is pulled directly from the great Shane Parish. His weekend post on<a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2019\/02\/compounding-knowledge\/\"> \u201cknowledge compounding\u201d<\/a> is similar to how I\u2019m structuring my year.\u00a0 This year over each quarter I am doing a \u2018crash course\u2019 in some topic that I\u2019m interested in. The first quarter is on behavioral economics, and I\u2019ve selected 6 books to read over the three months.\u00a0 I finished <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00NUB4GFQ\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1\">Misbehaving<\/a> last night, which gives a good history of the social science.\u00a0 Next up is Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow.\u00a0 Over the next three months it\u2019s my hope that what I learn in these books will compound. I\u00a0 can get a longer half life of my knowledge when I\u2019m able to contrast and compare different authors and studies, as well as putting the studies in a historical setting.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, here is Parish on Buffet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The biggest thing he\u2019s done is to learn and create this cumulative base of knowledge in his head. One reason that he doesn\u2019t use a computer is that in a sense, he is one. He also needs a computer to get\u2026he uses it for news. He wants to know what\u2019s going on in the world. So he is on the internet a lot to get news reports, and he\u2019s up late at night seeing what\u2019s going on. He doesn\u2019t use it as a filing cabinet or for computation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s mental model is pulled directly from the great Shane Parish. His weekend post on \u201cknowledge compounding\u201d is similar to how I\u2019m structuring my year.\u00a0 This year over each quarter I am doing a \u2018crash course\u2019 in some topic that I\u2019m interested in. The first quarter is on behavioral economics, and I\u2019ve selected 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}