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Mental Models + AI: Unlocking System 3 Thinking
Most people think of AI as a faster way to do things they already do. What if it’s actually a lever for a fundamentally new category of thinking — one that wasn’t possible before?
That’s what this session is about. Over the past decade, I’ve gone deep on mental models — studying how the world’s top thinkers, from Charlie Munger to Magnus Carlsen, build and use conceptual frameworks that others don’t. The pattern is consistent: the people who see what others miss aren’t just smarter. They’ve built a latticework of mental models that lets them spot opportunities, avoid blind spots, and navigate complexity at a speed and depth that seems almost unfair.
AI changes that equation dramatically. When you combine mental models with AI — using them as a command language to direct its reasoning — you get something I’m calling System 3 thinking. Daniel Kahneman gave us System 1 (fast, intuitive) and System 2 (slow, deliberate). Sys…
