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The Knowledge Project Podcast Transcripts

Bill Gurley: Mental Models That Change How You Think

Shane Parrish: What are the key mental models that you keep coming back to that sort of explain how the world works to you? 

Bill Gurley: I’m a big believer in systems thinking. There’s a book called Thinking in Systems that I read. 

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