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The Inner Scorecard: How Warren Buffett Mastered Life

“The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.” — Warren Buffett …

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Avoiding Falling Victim to The Narrative Fallacy

The narrative fallacy leads us to see events as stories, with logical chains of cause and effect. Stories help us make sense of the world. However, if we’re not aware of the narrative fallacy it can …

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The 2015 Farnam Street Members Book List

Today’s book list is based on recommendations by Farnam Street Members on Slack over the last few months. If you’re not familiar with it, our community on Slack is a discussion area for members, and …

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The Map Is Not the Territory

The Great Mental Models Volumes One and Two are out. Learn more about the project here. The map of reality is not reality. Even the best maps are imperfect. That’s because they are reductions of …

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