Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley

We do live in a world where information is really cut up, but we also live in a world where you can have access to more information than you ever could. What are the key mental models that you keep coming back to that sort of Explain how the world works to you. I'm a big believer in systems thinking. There's a there's a book called Thinking and Systems that I read. What does that mean to think in systems? I'm on the board of the Santa Fe Institute. The Santa Fe Institute studies complexity theory I would describe complex systems as multivariable nonlinear systems and Multi variable nonlinear systems are very hard to predict. They can behave one way for a long time and then one variable can switch and they can behave another way. The weather, stock markets, all these things. There's consequences that can be

First, second, third derivative. And You know, you you can't just think with a linear model or just think one variable because Things can can go way off. the path. Being aware that if you make it change here, it could change something here, which could change something there. And it has to be the whole

system. How does that help you when you're solving problems or thinking about stuff? I think it keeps you out of trouble because You can avoid uh consequences that you might find out later. You know, I was t I was talking to a A guy that worked at one of the large dating sites. They had this this idea

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