Latticework of Mental Models
A diverse set of models from many disciplines, used together.
"One model gets you misdiagnosis. Ten get you understanding."
What is Latticework of Mental Models? A diverse set of models from many disciplines, used together. Executive reasoning quality.
Munger's interdisciplinary approach.
Executive reasoning quality.
Add a new model from a new discipline to your latticework every month.
Use the model. Pick the move.
A diverse set of models from many disciplines, used together. You've just seen this: Munger's interdisciplinary approach. Which lever does the model recommend?
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- Healthcare
- Education
- Sales
- Marketing
- AI
- Negotiation
- Media
- Public Policy
- Relationships
- Where in our org would Latticework of Mental Models most often show up unnoticed?
- Which metric, ritual, or contract clause quietly rewards Latticework of Mental Models?
- If we removed every payoff for Latticework of Mental Models, what behavior would replace it?
- Who benefits when Latticework of Mental Models persists — and who pays the cost?
- People defend the status quo using the language of latticework of mental models.
- Decisions cluster around the easiest narrative rather than the strongest evidence.
- New data changes the slide deck but not the decision.
- Anyone naming the pattern is treated as the problem.
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When you encounter Latticework of Mental Models, your prefrontal cortex has to do extra work to override the automatic response — and that override budget is finite.
Executive control, planning, impulse override, working memory, System 2. First thing to go offline under stress, fatigue, or low blood sugar. Why your 4pm decisions are worse than your 9am ones.
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Ranked by shared learning paths, overlapping chips, and what you've saved.
Your capacity to learn, unlearn, and relearn faster than the environment changes.
Malcolm Knowles's principles of adult learning: self-direction, experience as resource, readiness, problem-centered orientation, intrinsic motivation.
Amishi Jha's research: attention is a finite, depletable, but trainable cognitive resource — short daily mindfulness measurably improves it.
Approach a situation as if you knew nothing.
Unusual or bizarre material is more memorable than common material.
Hierarchy of cognitive learning: Remember → Understand → Apply → Analyze → Evaluate → Create. Benjamin Bloom, 1956 (revised 2001).
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Removing a quote from its context to distort its meaning.
Bad teams 'tank' for better draft positions.
Underestimating how common our positive traits and behaviors are.
Hedgehogs know one big thing; foxes know many small things.
Once we know something, it is hard to imagine not knowing it.
Bad lands harder than good.
Today's discomfort outweighs tomorrow's reward.
Less available = perceived as more valuable.
Accidents occur when multiple layers of defenses fail simultaneously.
The integrative, systemic, flexible value system — the first of second-tier.
Rejecting an argument because of dislike for the source or beneficiary.
Reading micro-shifts in another person's state — breath, color, micro-expression — in real time.