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2026
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What I kept from Shane Parrish's mental models book — not as a catalog, but as tools I'll actually open and use. Inversion, Socratic method, Force Field Analysis, and a few corrections to my own defaults.
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Four chapters that sharpened one thing for me: people rarely resist your idea — they resist your posture. The real skill is influence without triggering defense.
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On missing mentors, why LLMs unexpectedly fill part of that gap, and what Anthony Pompliano’s letters-to-his-kids format triggered in my own thinking.
2025
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A detailed, month-by-month review of 2025: what I built, what it cost, and the pattern I can no longer ignore.
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Why the feeling of freedom matters more than the behavior itself, how decisions 'freeze' future choices, and how classic influence techniques exploit commitment and reciprocal concessions.