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Mental Models

The latticework of thinking

Astro · React · Tailwind · MDX2026Alejandro Fernández Camello

An interactive site that teaches mental models - the cross-disciplinary thinking tools great decision-makers use - from zero to expert, not by memorising definitions but by grabbing the idea and feeling how it moves.

A latticework, not a list

Every course depends only on earlier ones. You never hit an unexplained concept: models chain together from beginner to expert.

BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpertAsymmetryInversionCompoundingProbabilitySystemsEmergenceGame theoryFitness landscapes

Grab the idea and move it

Compounding is the most famous model and the worst-intuited. Drag the rate and watch the linear turn exponential.

Compounding30 years
8%

Starting capital

€1,000

After 30 years

€10,063

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10.1×

Doubling the rate doesn’t double the result - it multiplies it. That is the whole power, and the whole trap, of compounding.

Nine learning paths

Models cluster into thematic routes. You start at the foundations and climb toward strategy.

Foundations

Asymmetry, inversion, map vs. territory: the first models that reorder how you see any problem.

Decision-making

Opportunity cost, sunk cost and expected value to choose better under uncertainty.

Probability

Bayes, base rates and fat tails: thinking in distributions, not certainties.

Human psychology

Biases, incentives and heuristics that govern how we decide - often without noticing.

Systems thinking

Feedback loops, stocks, flows and second-order effects in complex systems.

Strategy

Game theory, mechanism design and fitness landscapes to play multi-player games.

Start at the foundations

Free forever, no accounts, no ads and open source. Bilingual: English and Spanish at full parity.