Mental models

Essays

• The Skill of Unlearning — AI doesn't make you better — it amplifies who you already are. The skill that determines which side you land on isn't learning. It's letting go.
• Strategic Ignorance: The Skill Nobody Teaches You — The most informed people aren't consuming the most — they're ignoring the most, deliberately. Here's how to build the system.
• Unteachable Lessons: Why Knowing Is Not Enough — Some lessons resist transfer by telling. The smartest humans across 2,500 years all noticed this — none solved it by explaining better.
• Stop Worshipping Effort — The effort heuristic makes you overvalue suffering and distrust efficiency. Output = Skill × Leverage / Time — and you're maximizing the wrong variable.