It's just not a great article. Farnam Street is popping up on HN all the time these days. They had one article a while back which I liked enough to add their RS

It's just not a great article. Farnam Street is popping up on HN all the time these days. They had one article a while back which I liked enough to add their RSS feed to my reader (can't remember which one), but to be frank, I think everything I've read from that site since then has disappointed, and I've since removed them. Seriously, there is no value to internalizing a rule like "think the same way that the theory of general relativity would." It doesn't even make sense. This is low grade pop psych. When passions are running high, the first thing you should do before making decisions is cool down. You don't need a novel mental model you just need to take a break and wait for everyone's emotions (and the accompanying stress hormones, which suppress rational thinking) to subside. That's a better mental model than anything in this article.