The Gulag Archipelago is Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s comprehensive history of the Soviet Gulag system, which he experienced firsthand having been a prisoner himself. Early after his arrest he made it his goal to catalogue his experiences and those of the people he met there, and to write this book to give the world and in particular […]
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Charlie Munger, billionaire investor and business partner of Warren Buffett, often discusses the importance of developing a framework of mental models in order to better understand the world and our own behavior. With reference to my introductory post, I thought a good place to start off this blog is to discuss some of the more
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“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become aware of how difficult it is to consistently see myself and reality clearly, without distortion. The mind seems to have an almost limitless ability to delude itself, and