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A review by jpgringo
The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien
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This book feels like it was pulled together from WikiQuotes with a minimal amount of effort to organize the content. It’s promoted as a survey of great intellectual tools (and spends a lot of time internally reminding you of that) but presents the shallowest possible look at any of them, to the point of unrecognizable distortion / misrepresentation.
Really, this is just another entry in the growing body of work that attempts to mine deep bodies of inquiry for the most superficial insights to help you, the reader, become a better salesperson/manager/programmer/whatever. The purveyors of this stuff seem to believe that an idea’s worth is measured solely on its ability to increase profit.
Don’t get me wrong: there are plenty of truly great business books out there, and even more great books about ideas… why not read one of them instead? Or at least read some Taleb or Gladwell (the ur-gurus of this kind of pseudo-profound muck) who at least write entertainingly and somewhat challengingly?
Full points to whoever designed and illustrated this book, though, it’s an absolutely beautiful object.
Really, this is just another entry in the growing body of work that attempts to mine deep bodies of inquiry for the most superficial insights to help you, the reader, become a better salesperson/manager/programmer/whatever. The purveyors of this stuff seem to believe that an idea’s worth is measured solely on its ability to increase profit.
Don’t get me wrong: there are plenty of truly great business books out there, and even more great books about ideas… why not read one of them instead? Or at least read some Taleb or Gladwell (the ur-gurus of this kind of pseudo-profound muck) who at least write entertainingly and somewhat challengingly?
Full points to whoever designed and illustrated this book, though, it’s an absolutely beautiful object.