On Alignment
Alignment means everybody wins together. It's baked into a company's business model, and once things get going it's hard to fix.
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Mental models for making better decisions, faster.
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Mental models for making better decisions, faster
Mental models are like little lenses that allow you to see a decision and your options in a certain light, a light that makes the right thing to do obvious.