Author here. A crisper version of the criticism may be found here: https://commoncog.com/blog/the-mental-model-faq/ https://commoncog.com/blog/the-mental-model-

Author here. A crisper version of the criticism may be found here: https://commoncog.com/blog/the-mental-model-faq/ https://commoncog.com/blog/the-mental-model-faq/ It is, in turn, a summary of a 30k word series on 'putting mental models to practice' https://commoncog.com/blog/a-framework-for-putting-mental-models-to-practice/ https://commoncog.com/blog/a-framework-for-putting-mental-mo... — originally published in Farnam Street's Learning Community. To his credit, Shane Parrish of Farnam Street invited me to share my criticisms in his members-only forum, so I reciprocated by putting in the work to back up the ideas in this piece.