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Upgrade Your Thinking: Risk Models and Mental Tools

Upgrade Your Thinking: Risk Models and Mental Tools

Published on: 03/10/2024

Issue 16: Using mental models to navigate uncertainty, Howard Marks on what risk really is, and why cynicism is a liability, not an asset.

Deep Logic: Mastering Second-Level Thinking

Deep Logic: Mastering Second-Level Thinking

Published on: 07/03/2024

Issue 3: How to out-think the consensus with second-level thinking, and the second-order impacts of Nvidia, 'the most important stock'.