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Harmful Progress

Creating value can harm you.

Brian Lui Theory Leave a comment June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 7 Minutes

Thoughts From The Bay

I recently visited San Francisco and met many people from a variety of tech and tech-adjacent areas. I also walked around the city and travelled to nearby Bay Area locations. I came away with several findings.

Brian Lui Stories, Theory 1 Comment December 27, 2018July 21, 2019 15 Minutes

Dimensional decoupling

Inversion asks, “what if something was the opposite?” Dimensional decoupling asks, “what if something wasn’t an opposite?”

Brian Lui Theory, Tools 1 Comment May 19, 2018January 18, 2019 6 Minutes

Useful models are better than correct models

The more correct something is, the more useful it tends to be. But this correlation is overestimated. Fixating on correctness cripples our personal growth.

Brian Lui Theory 2 Comments March 20, 2018August 1, 2018 5 Minutes

Correct models are bad

We may think that correct mental models are always good to have, but the reality is that some correct models are useless or even harmful.

Brian Lui Theory 6 Comments March 3, 2018January 18, 2019 6 Minutes

Wrong models are good

A common belief is that we should only use correct mental models, but the reality is that some wrong models are worth keeping around.

Brian Lui Theory 3 Comments February 15, 2018January 18, 2019 5 Minutes

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