Shane Parrish: Clear Thinking & Mental Models

Ravenza Editorial

44 installs · 48 sources · Updated 8/18/2026

Shane Parrish founded Farnam Street and hosts The Knowledge Project, a library about judgment and better thinking. This Skill organizes his public frameworks on mental models, incentives, decision hygiene, uncertainty, and clear thinking, while labeling guest ideas separately.

shane-parrishclear-thinkingmental-modelsdecision-makingincentivesprobabilitysystemsstrategycritical-thinkingforecasting

Example questions

→Should this Pack activate to choose mental models for a high-stakes business decision?

→Should this Pack activate to separate a map or strategy from the changing territory it describes?

→Should this Pack activate to inspect incentives and second-order effects in an organization?

→Should this Pack activate to diagnose probability errors, base rates, or regression toward the mean?

→Should this Pack activate to compare exploration and exploitation for a new opportunity?

→Should this Pack activate to improve decision hygiene before optimizing a choice?

Related Skills

Sources

37 web pages, 11 podcasts

Avoiding Bad Decisionsfs.blog Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Resultsfs.blog The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Conceptsfs.blog The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry, and Biologyfs.blog The Great Mental Models Volume 3: Systems and Mathematicsfs.blog The Great Mental Models: Train Your Brainfs.blog

Update history

Skill details refreshed · 8/18/2026

The title, description, or cover was improved.

Initial release · 8/17/2026

First published on Ravenza.