214: Gabriel Weinberg | How Mental Models Boost Super Thinking

06/20/19 • 71 min

Gabriel Weinberg (@yegg) is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, founder of privacy-protecting search engine DuckDuckGo, and coauthor of Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models.

What We Discuss with Gabriel Weinberg:

What are mental models, and how can they be applied to make your life run more efficiently and effectively?
How mental models used primarily in physics, economics, biology, and math can be easily adjusted for everyday decisions.
What a South American tribe that can only count to three and our own grade school experiences with multiplication tables can teach us about the power of math as a mental model.
Why you should be second-guessing your natural intuition during the decision-making process, and how you can use mental models to do it.
First principles versus conventional wisdom for approaching familiar situations in an innovative way.
And much more...

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Gabriel Weinberg (@yegg) is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, founder of privacy-protecting search engine DuckDuckGo, and coauthor of Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models.

What We Discuss with Gabriel Weinberg:

What are mental models, and how can they be applied to make your life run more efficiently and effectively?
How mental models used primarily in physics, economics, biology, and math can be easily adjusted for everyday decisions.
What a South American tribe that can only count to three and our own grade school experiences with multiplication tables can teach us about the power of math as a mental model.
Why you should be second-guessing your natural intuition during the decision-making process, and how you can use mental models to do it.
First principles versus conventional wisdom for approaching familiar situations in an innovative way.
And much more...

Full show notes and resources can be found here: https://jordanharbinger.com/214

Sign up for Six-Minute Networking -- our free networking and relationship development mini course -- at jordanharbinger.com/course!

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213: LeVar Burton | Storytelling the Enemies of Education Off

LeVar Burton (@levarburton) is an award-winning actor famous for iconic roles from Kunta Kinte in Roots to Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the host of long-running PBS series Reading Rainbow and the LeVar Burton Reads podcast.

What We Discuss with LeVar Burton:

How LeVar went from pursuing a vocation in the priesthood to acting in a miniseries that changed the national dialogue about slavery forever.
What LeVar's Roots experience taught him about the power of television for education and engagement and how it paved the way for his involvement with Reading Rainbow .
The questions LeVar asks parents who want their kids to read more.
What it was like to act in Star Trek with the most expressive parts of his face covered and a head full of technobabble vocabulary.
How LeVar avoided melting down in spite of international attention from an early age and what he's done to stay relevant over 40 years in show business.
And much more...

Full show notes and resources can be found here: https://jordanharbinger.com/213

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215: How to Invest Wisely and Crush Student Debt | Feedback Friday

There's lots of stuff in this one about investing wisely and eradicating debt -- especially student debt -- thanks to some professional help from our all-star, money-ninja accountant Matt Rzepka, along with the usual questions about everything else we get here on Feedback Friday.

And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Jason DeFillippo (@jpdef) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at [email protected]. Now let's dive in!

Full show notes and resources can be found here: https://jordanharbinger.com/215.

On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:

You judge people quickly, won't suck up to authority, and have a reputation as being unapproachable. What's really going on, and are you stuck this way?
You're a frugally living 37-year-old doctor swimming in med school debt. Should you put all your money into saving and investments or toward extra loan repayment?
For someone with student loan debt just starting out in their career, what is the best move for financial freedom? Should you pay off debt, invest, build savings, or acquire assets?
Early in med school with many years of debt ahead, is it still worth it to be locking your money up and committing to your monthly index fund?
Your network connection is great at opening doors, but lackluster in work ethic. Is there a way to inoffensively compensate them for opening those doors without involving them in the actual job that results?
Are you really offended when an entertainer (say, a podcaster) openly expresses their political views, or are you just offended when their political views seem to differ from yours?
How can you stop giving in to your need for instant gratification and become a productive member of society when you lack discipline and think the world's ending anyway?
Life Pro Tip: If you volunteer to give up your seat on an overbooked flight, don't just take the first offer. Tell the gate agent, "Toss in another $200+/- and I'll go for it." They'll almost always agree, because a willing volunteer is worth it. And if they offer you a meal voucher, ask for a day pass to their first class club instead. It will have food plus other amenities!
Recommendation of the Week: The Dawn Wall
A quick shoutout to Malak Firaas from (the nation of) Jordan!
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