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Ask HN: What's your most frequently used mental model?
- itamarst 9y agoProbably the physics model my brain uses to help me pick things up, walk around, and so on.
- chollida1 9y agoIn investing there are a few models I apply when skimming a company, none is sufficient to red flag a company but each is a signal that means that area needs to be dug into and understood at a deep level - skin in the game, do the employee's including C level execs hold less than x% of the company 1 year after it goes public or did they sell out as soon as possible? - no oversight by boardroom, are the boardroom members on more than 1 other companies board? - literally having to pay through the nose to get people to come into work, ie the twitter rule, Does your EBITA look materially different when you remove stock based compensation
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- psyc 9y agoI sometimes imagine there's a 4D spacetime, containing tangible objects and events, external to me. And I'm an agent moving about in that external world, making free choices.
- GoldenMonkey 9y agostoicism - happiness should not depend on circumstances, whether good or bad.