Compiled from: 25iq.com and The Farnam Street Latticework of Mental Models
- Balance Sheet
- Cash Flow Statement
- Depreciation
- Double-Entry
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Income Statement
- Sunk Cost
- Genetics
- Natural Selection
- Physiology
- Complex Adaptive Systems
- Systems Thinking
- Moats
- Porter Five Forces
- Brand
- Ability to Raise Prices
- Scale
- Distribution
- Cost
- Improving Returns
- Decision Trees
- Diminishing Returns
- Mr. Market
- Circle of Competence
- Autocatalytic reactions
- Bohr Model
- Kinetics
- Thermodynamics
- Uncertainty Principle
- Viscosity
- Abstractions
- Algorithms
- If-statements
- Recursion
- Agency Problem
- Asymmetric Information
- Behavioral Economics
- Cumulative Advantage
- Comparative Advantage
- Competitive Advantage
- Creative Destruction
- Diminishing Utility
- Economies of Scale
- Elasticity
- Externalities
- Markets
- Marginal Cost
- Marginal Utility
- Monopoly and Oligopoly
- Network effects
- Opportunity Cost
- Price Discrimination
- Prisoner’s Dilemma
- Public and Private Goods
- Specialization
- Supply and Demand
- Switching Costs
- Transaction Costs
- Tragedy of the Commons
- Time Value of Money
- Utility
- Scarcity
- Trade-offs
- Moral Hazard
- Game Theory
- Bottlenecks
- Breakpoints
- Feedback loops
- Margin of Safety
- Redundancy
- Tight Coupling
- Burden of Proof
- Common law
- Due Process
- Duty of care
- Good Faith
- Negligence
- Presumption of Innocence
- Reasonable doubt
- Occam’s razor
- Parkinson’s Law
- Process versus Outcome
- Agent Based Models
- Bayes Theorem
- Central Limit Theorem
- Complex Adaptive Systems
- Correlation versus Causation
- Combinations
- Compounding
- Decision Trees
- Distribution
- Inversion
- Kelly Optimization Model
- Law of Large Numbers
- Mean, Median, Mode
- Normal Distribution
- Permutations
- Power Law
- Regression Analysis
- Return to the Mean
- Scaling
- Sensitivity Analysis
- Outliers and self fulfilling prophecy
- Metaphors
- Similes
- Abduction
- Pragmatism
- Realism
- Reductionism
- Critical Mass
- Electromagnetism
- Equilibrium
- Inertia
- Newton’s Laws
- Momentum
- Quantum Mechanics
- Relativity
- Shannon’s Law
- Thermodynamics
- Ease of Recall
- Retrievability
- Bias from insensitivity to base rates
- Bias from insensitivity to sample size
- Misconceptions of chance
- Regression to the mean
- Bias from conjunction fallacy
- Confirmation bias
- Bias from anchoring
- Conjunctive and disjunctive-events bias
- Bias from over-confidence
- Hindsight Bias
- Bias from incentives and reinforcement
- Bias from self-interest — self deception and denial to reduce pain or increase pleasure; regret avoidance.
- Bias from association
- Bias from liking/loving
- Bias from disliking/hating
- Commitment and Consistency Bias
- Bias from excessive fairness
- Bias from envy and jealousy
- Reciprocation bias
- Over-influence from authority
- Tendency to super-react to deprival; stronger reaction when something we have or almost have is (or threatens to be) taken away.
- Loss aversion
- Bias from contrast
- Bias from stress-influence (introduction | posts)
- Bias from emotional arousal
- Bias from physical or psychological pain
- Bias from mis-reading people; character
- Attribution Error; underestimating situation factors (including roles) when explaining reasons; one to one versus one to many relationships
- Bias from the status quo
- Do something tendency
- Do nothing tendency
- Over-influence from precision/models
- Simplicity Bias
- Uncertainty avoidance
- Ideological bias
- Not invented here bias — thinking that our own ideas are the best ones
- Bias from over-weighting the short-term
- Tendency to avoid extremes
- Tendency to solve problems using only the field we know best / favored ideas. (Man with a hammer.)
- Bias from social proof
- Over-influence from framing effects
- Lollapalooza