Connections graph
Munger’s latticework, drawn. Each dot is a model and each line joins two that help explain each other. Dots fill in as you read a model on the daily card and gain a ring once you log a use, so the map shows how much of it is yours.
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Click a model to see what it says and what it connects to.
Thinking tools
- Circle of competence, not read yet
Connects to Comparative advantage, Deliberate practice, Margin of safety, One-way and two-way doors, Social proof, The dichotomy of control, The Feynman technique, The map is not the territory
- First principles, not read yet
Connects to Anchoring, Chesterton's fence, Occam's razor, Orders of magnitude, The Feynman technique, The map is not the territory, Thought experiments
- Inversion, not read yet
Connects to Chesterton's fence, Confirmation bias, Pre-mortem, Second-order thinking, Steelmanning, Thought experiments, Via negativa
- Probabilistic thinking, not read yet
Connects to Asymmetric bets, Base rates, Bayes' rule, Expected value, Margin of safety, Nonlinearity, Optionality, Orders of magnitude, Regression to the mean, Second-order thinking, Strong opinions, weakly held, The availability heuristic, The birthday paradox, The law of large numbers, The Lindy effect, The planning fallacy
- Second-order thinking, not read yet
Connects to Chesterton's fence, Correlation is not causation, Feedback loops, Goodhart's law, Incentives drive behaviour, Inversion, One-way and two-way doors, Opportunity cost, Postel's law, Pre-mortem, Probabilistic thinking, Stocks and flows, Supply and demand, The opportunity cost of time, Tragedy of the commons, Unintended consequences
- The Feynman technique, not read yet
Connects to Chunking, Circle of competence, Desirable difficulties, First principles, Retrieval practice, The map is not the territory
- The map is not the territory, not read yet
Connects to Anchoring, Averages hide the spread, Circle of competence, Correlation is not causation, Emergence, First principles, Goodhart's law, Leaky abstractions, Margin of safety, Occam's razor, The CAP theorem, The Feynman technique, The fundamental attribution error, Thought experiments
- Thought experiments, not read yet
Connects to First principles, Inversion, The map is not the territory
Probability and statistics
- Base rates, not read yet
Connects to Averages hide the spread, Bayes' rule, Probabilistic thinking, Selection bias, Survivorship bias, The availability heuristic, The birthday paradox, The planning fallacy
- Bayes' rule, not read yet
Connects to Base rates, Confirmation bias, Probabilistic thinking, Strong opinions, weakly held
- Correlation is not causation, not read yet
Connects to Confirmation bias, Second-order thinking, Selection bias, The map is not the territory
- Expected value, not read yet
Connects to Asymmetric bets, Fat tails, Margin of safety, Probabilistic thinking, Regret minimization, The law of large numbers, The sunk cost fallacy
- Fat tails, not read yet
Connects to Asymmetric bets, Averages hide the spread, Expected value, Margin of safety, Nonlinearity, Power laws and the 80/20 rule, Pre-mortem, The law of large numbers
- Regression to the mean, not read yet
Connects to Probabilistic thinking, Selection bias, The law of large numbers, The planning fallacy
- Selection bias, not read yet
Connects to Base rates, Confirmation bias, Correlation is not causation, Regression to the mean, Survivorship bias
- Survivorship bias, not read yet
Connects to Base rates, Confirmation bias, Evolution by natural selection, Famous blunders and their causes, Selection bias, The availability heuristic
- The law of large numbers, not read yet
Connects to Expected value, Fat tails, Probabilistic thinking, Regression to the mean
Economics and incentives
- Comparative advantage, not read yet
Connects to Circle of competence, Opportunity cost, Supply and demand, The opportunity cost of time
- Goodhart's law, not read yet
Connects to Evolution by natural selection, Incentive-caused bias, Incentives drive behaviour, Second-order thinking, The map is not the territory, The principal-agent problem, Unintended consequences
- Incentives drive behaviour, not read yet
Connects to Goodhart's law, Incentive-caused bias, Moral hazard, Second-order thinking, Supply and demand, The principal-agent problem, Tragedy of the commons
- Moral hazard, not read yet
Connects to Asymmetric bets, Incentives drive behaviour, Margin of safety, The principal-agent problem, Tragedy of the commons
- Network effects, not read yet
Connects to Critical mass and tipping points, Emergence, Feedback loops, Nonlinearity, Optionality, Path dependence, Power laws and the 80/20 rule, Social proof, Supply and demand, The adjacent possible, The Lindy effect
- Opportunity cost, not read yet
Connects to Comparative advantage, Satisficing versus maximizing, Second-order thinking, Supply and demand, The opportunity cost of time, The sunk cost fallacy
- Supply and demand, not read yet
Connects to Comparative advantage, Equilibrium, Incentives drive behaviour, Network effects, Opportunity cost, Second-order thinking, Unintended consequences
- The principal-agent problem, not read yet
Connects to Goodhart's law, Incentive-caused bias, Incentives drive behaviour, Moral hazard
- Tragedy of the commons, not read yet
Connects to Feedback loops, Incentives drive behaviour, Moral hazard, Second-order thinking, Unintended consequences
Systems and complexity
- Bottlenecks and the theory of constraints, not read yet
Connects to Amdahl's law, Brooks's law, Chunking, Imperial overreach, Leverage, Little's law, Premature optimisation, Redundancy and slack, Scale effects and the square-cube law, Stocks and flows, The opportunity cost of time
- Emergence, not read yet
Connects to Conway's law, Feedback loops, Gall's law, Network effects, Nonlinearity, Scale effects and the square-cube law, The adjacent possible, The map is not the territory
- Feedback loops, not read yet
Connects to Conway's law, Critical mass and tipping points, Deliberate practice, Emergence, Equilibrium, Evolution by natural selection, Exponential versus linear growth, Gall's law, Network effects, Nonlinearity, Postel's law, Second-order thinking, Social proof, Stocks and flows, Tragedy of the commons, Unintended consequences
- Nonlinearity, not read yet
Connects to Brooks's law, Critical mass and tipping points, Emergence, Exponential versus linear growth, Fat tails, Feedback loops, Margin of safety, Network effects, Power laws and the 80/20 rule, Probabilistic thinking, Redundancy and slack, Scale effects and the square-cube law
- Redundancy and slack, not read yet
Connects to Bottlenecks and the theory of constraints, Entropy, Leaky abstractions, Little's law, Margin of safety, Nonlinearity, Optionality, The CAP theorem, The planning fallacy
- Stocks and flows, not read yet
Connects to Bottlenecks and the theory of constraints, Equilibrium, Feedback loops, Little's law, Second-order thinking
- Unintended consequences, not read yet
Connects to Chesterton's fence, Feedback loops, Goodhart's law, Hyrum's law, Postel's law, Second-order thinking, Supply and demand, Tragedy of the commons
Psychology and biases
- Anchoring, not read yet
Connects to First principles, The availability heuristic, The map is not the territory, The planning fallacy
- Confirmation bias, not read yet
Connects to Bayes' rule, Correlation is not causation, Famous blunders and their causes, Inversion, Selection bias, Social proof, Steelmanning, Strong opinions, weakly held, Survivorship bias, The availability heuristic
- Incentive-caused bias, not read yet
Connects to Famous blunders and their causes, Goodhart's law, Hanlon's razor, Incentives drive behaviour, The fundamental attribution error, The principal-agent problem
- Loss aversion, not read yet
Connects to Asymmetric bets, Inertia, Margin of safety, Regret minimization, The sunk cost fallacy
- Social proof, not read yet
Connects to Circle of competence, Confirmation bias, Feedback loops, Network effects
- The availability heuristic, not read yet
Connects to Anchoring, Base rates, Confirmation bias, Probabilistic thinking, Survivorship bias
- The fundamental attribution error, not read yet
Connects to Hanlon's razor, Incentive-caused bias, The dichotomy of control, The map is not the territory
- The planning fallacy, not read yet
Connects to Anchoring, Base rates, Brooks's law, Margin of safety, Pre-mortem, Probabilistic thinking, Redundancy and slack, Regression to the mean
- The sunk cost fallacy, not read yet
Connects to Expected value, Famous blunders and their causes, Inertia, Loss aversion, One-way and two-way doors, Opportunity cost, Regret minimization
Science and physics
- Critical mass and tipping points, not read yet
Connects to Equilibrium, Feedback loops, Network effects, Nonlinearity, The adjacent possible
- Entropy, not read yet
Connects to Half-life, Redundancy and slack, The Lindy effect, Via negativa
- Equilibrium, not read yet
Connects to Critical mass and tipping points, Feedback loops, Stocks and flows, Supply and demand
- Evolution by natural selection, not read yet
Connects to Feedback loops, Gall's law, Goodhart's law, Multiple discovery, Survivorship bias, The Lindy effect
- Half-life, not read yet
Connects to Compounding, Entropy, Exponential versus linear growth, Spaced repetition, The forgetting curve, The Lindy effect
- Inertia, not read yet
Connects to Chesterton's fence, Loss aversion, Path dependence, The sunk cost fallacy, Via negativa
- Leverage, not read yet
Connects to Asymmetric bets, Bottlenecks and the theory of constraints, Compounding, Margin of safety
- Scale effects and the square-cube law, not read yet
Connects to Bottlenecks and the theory of constraints, Brooks's law, Emergence, Imperial overreach, Nonlinearity, Orders of magnitude
Math intuitions
- Averages hide the spread, not read yet
Connects to Base rates, Fat tails, Little's law, Power laws and the 80/20 rule, The map is not the territory
- Compounding, not read yet
Connects to Exponential versus linear growth, Half-life, Leverage, Margin of safety, The Lindy effect, The rule of 72
- Exponential versus linear growth, not read yet
Connects to Compounding, Feedback loops, Half-life, Nonlinearity, The birthday paradox, The rule of 72
- Orders of magnitude, not read yet
Connects to Amdahl's law, First principles, Probabilistic thinking, Scale effects and the square-cube law, The rule of 72
- Power laws and the 80/20 rule, not read yet
Connects to Averages hide the spread, Fat tails, Network effects, Nonlinearity
- The birthday paradox, not read yet
Connects to Base rates, Exponential versus linear growth, Probabilistic thinking
- The rule of 72, not read yet
Connects to Compounding, Exponential versus linear growth, Orders of magnitude
History
- Famous blunders and their causes, not read yet
Connects to Confirmation bias, Imperial overreach, Incentive-caused bias, Pre-mortem, Survivorship bias, The sunk cost fallacy
- Imperial overreach, not read yet
Connects to Bottlenecks and the theory of constraints, Famous blunders and their causes, Margin of safety, Path dependence, Scale effects and the square-cube law
- Multiple discovery, not read yet
Connects to Evolution by natural selection, Path dependence, The adjacent possible, The Lindy effect
- Path dependence, not read yet
Connects to Chesterton's fence, Imperial overreach, Inertia, Multiple discovery, Network effects, The adjacent possible, The Lindy effect
- The adjacent possible, not read yet
Connects to Critical mass and tipping points, Emergence, Multiple discovery, Network effects, Path dependence
Software and engineering
- Amdahl's law, not read yet
Connects to Bottlenecks and the theory of constraints, Little's law, Orders of magnitude, Premature optimisation
- Brooks's law, not read yet
Connects to Bottlenecks and the theory of constraints, Conway's law, Nonlinearity, Scale effects and the square-cube law, The planning fallacy
- Conway's law, not read yet
Connects to Brooks's law, Emergence, Feedback loops, Gall's law
- Gall's law, not read yet
Connects to Conway's law, Emergence, Evolution by natural selection, Feedback loops, YAGNI (you aren't gonna need it)
- Hyrum's law, not read yet
Connects to Chesterton's fence, Leaky abstractions, Postel's law, Unintended consequences
- Leaky abstractions, not read yet
Connects to Hyrum's law, Redundancy and slack, The CAP theorem, The map is not the territory
- Little's law, not read yet
Connects to Amdahl's law, Averages hide the spread, Bottlenecks and the theory of constraints, Redundancy and slack, Stocks and flows
- Postel's law, not read yet
Connects to Feedback loops, Hyrum's law, Second-order thinking, Unintended consequences
- Premature optimisation, not read yet
Connects to Amdahl's law, Bottlenecks and the theory of constraints, One-way and two-way doors, YAGNI (you aren't gonna need it)
- The CAP theorem, not read yet
Connects to Leaky abstractions, One-way and two-way doors, Redundancy and slack, The map is not the territory
- YAGNI (you aren't gonna need it), not read yet
Connects to Gall's law, One-way and two-way doors, Optionality, Premature optimisation, Via negativa
Decision-making and strategy
- Asymmetric bets, not read yet
Connects to Expected value, Fat tails, Leverage, Loss aversion, Margin of safety, Moral hazard, Optionality, Probabilistic thinking, Regret minimization
- Margin of safety, not read yet
Connects to Asymmetric bets, Circle of competence, Compounding, Expected value, Fat tails, Imperial overreach, Leverage, Loss aversion, Moral hazard, Nonlinearity, Pre-mortem, Probabilistic thinking, Redundancy and slack, The map is not the territory, The planning fallacy
- One-way and two-way doors, not read yet
Connects to Circle of competence, Optionality, Premature optimisation, Regret minimization, Satisficing versus maximizing, Second-order thinking, Strong opinions, weakly held, The CAP theorem, The opportunity cost of time, The sunk cost fallacy, YAGNI (you aren't gonna need it)
- Optionality, not read yet
Connects to Asymmetric bets, Network effects, One-way and two-way doors, Probabilistic thinking, Redundancy and slack, YAGNI (you aren't gonna need it)
- Pre-mortem, not read yet
Connects to Famous blunders and their causes, Fat tails, Inversion, Margin of safety, Regret minimization, Second-order thinking, The planning fallacy
- Regret minimization, not read yet
Connects to Asymmetric bets, Expected value, Loss aversion, One-way and two-way doors, Pre-mortem, Satisficing versus maximizing, The dichotomy of control, The sunk cost fallacy
- Satisficing versus maximizing, not read yet
Connects to One-way and two-way doors, Opportunity cost, Regret minimization, The opportunity cost of time
- The opportunity cost of time, not read yet
Connects to Bottlenecks and the theory of constraints, Comparative advantage, One-way and two-way doors, Opportunity cost, Satisficing versus maximizing, Second-order thinking
Learning and the mind
- Chunking, not read yet
Connects to Bottlenecks and the theory of constraints, Deliberate practice, The Feynman technique
- Deliberate practice, not read yet
Connects to Chunking, Circle of competence, Desirable difficulties, Feedback loops, Sleep and memory consolidation, The dichotomy of control
- Desirable difficulties, not read yet
Connects to Deliberate practice, Retrieval practice, Spaced repetition, The Feynman technique
- Retrieval practice, not read yet
Connects to Desirable difficulties, Spaced repetition, The Feynman technique, The forgetting curve
- Sleep and memory consolidation, not read yet
Connects to Deliberate practice, Spaced repetition, The forgetting curve
- Spaced repetition, not read yet
Connects to Desirable difficulties, Half-life, Retrieval practice, Sleep and memory consolidation, The forgetting curve
- The forgetting curve, not read yet
Connects to Half-life, Retrieval practice, Sleep and memory consolidation, Spaced repetition
Wisdom and philosophy
- Chesterton's fence, not read yet
Connects to First principles, Hanlon's razor, Hyrum's law, Inertia, Inversion, Path dependence, Second-order thinking, The Lindy effect, Unintended consequences, Via negativa
- Hanlon's razor, not read yet
Connects to Chesterton's fence, Incentive-caused bias, Occam's razor, Steelmanning, The fundamental attribution error
- Occam's razor, not read yet
Connects to First principles, Hanlon's razor, The map is not the territory
- Steelmanning, not read yet
Connects to Confirmation bias, Hanlon's razor, Inversion, Strong opinions, weakly held
- Strong opinions, weakly held, not read yet
Connects to Bayes' rule, Confirmation bias, One-way and two-way doors, Probabilistic thinking, Steelmanning
- The dichotomy of control, not read yet
Connects to Circle of competence, Deliberate practice, Regret minimization, The fundamental attribution error, Via negativa
- The Lindy effect, not read yet
Connects to Chesterton's fence, Compounding, Entropy, Evolution by natural selection, Half-life, Multiple discovery, Network effects, Path dependence, Probabilistic thinking, Via negativa
- Via negativa, not read yet
Connects to Chesterton's fence, Entropy, Inertia, Inversion, The dichotomy of control, The Lindy effect, YAGNI (you aren't gonna need it)