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Farnam Street

Disciplines:
self-help/mental models
parenting/learning
psychology/decision-making

Summary

Shane Parrish's blog and newsletter dedicated to mental models, decision-making frameworks, and learning from the best thinkers — named after the street where Warren Buffett's office is located.

Core Contribution

The mental models compendium: Farnam Street's organizing project is building the 'latticework of mental models' that Charlie Munger described as the foundation of good thinking. Individual posts introduce models from physics, biology, psychology, history, and economics with application examples. The newsletter reaches hundreds of thousands of subscribers and has been influential in business, investment, and knowledge-work culture as an intellectual resource.

Historical Influences

Charlie Munger's 'latticework of mental models'

Intellectual Lineage

Online Intellectual Media Mental Models Literature

Contemporaries & Peers

Astral Codex Ten Marginal Revolution

Minds Influenced

Mental Models Discourse Intellectual Newsletter Category

Intellectual Posterity

Mental Models Genre Knowledge Work Culture

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