About
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Mental Models Daily began in 2024 as a podcast with a simple promise: one mental model a day to elevate your daily decision making. Each episode took one idea that clear thinkers rely on, from Second-Order Thinking to the Lindy Effect, and showed it at work in a story.
A year of episodes became 365 models. We gathered them, checked every story against published sources, drew each idea as a pencil sketch, and sorted them not by academic field but by the situations people actually face: making a decision, facing risk, dealing with people, getting work done, competing, judging what is true, checking your own thinking and fixing problems.
They are now three things you can keep on your desk:
- The Core Deck, to remember: 60 models on cards, one to draw each morning.
- The Workbook, to apply: 60 thinking tools, each with exercises and worksheets, and a month of practice.
- The Almanac, to learn all 365: one illustrated page for every model, with two stories each.
The podcast continues, now one model a week with a full episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube, and short films on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube in between.
How we make them
The text is drafted with the help of AI tools, then reviewed, fact-checked and edited by us; we are responsible for every word. The drawings are made with AI image tools from our own briefs. Every story is checked against published sources before it goes in.
Contact
Write to us at [email protected]. We read everything.