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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Do you think that the solution is making the data, breaking up the data monopoly over sort of like the monopoly writ large in terms of the size of company and maybe the scope of their influence?
A It's funny cause I, I think that there are, I think this is where, um, it gets complicated. I, I think there are actually different issues. Like, so, um, I think you have to do something about the data monopoly, but independent of that, some of the companies have had bad practices within their core markets, right? Like we've had some trouble competing in search, um, just because of search issues that are specific to search and nothing to do with the data monopoly. And Europe, Has come out and, you know, find, say, Google a bunch of times related to those practices. Um, so I view them as independent and generally they've been independent agencies pursuing them in the government. The government has, the, the, the reality is these companies are huge. They do a lot of different things. And so the government, different government agencies need to be kind of on top of it.
AI assessment note: “I think you have to do something about the data monopoly, but independent of that”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q How do you think that that should be handled?
A Um, so we've been trying to do, um, but we haven't had the luxury because we don't make our own ones all the case all the time is try to give people choice. And so like when we have map results, for example, people can choose, um, which provider they want to Do the directions when they go off of duck to go onto a directions provider. And so that's the model I think would be good is giving people more choice. Um, but even that has its own problem because there are hundreds of providers and you can't give, you run into a paradox of choice model, just like, or Hicks law. It's like, You give people a billion choices.
AI assessment note: “that's the model I think would be good is giving people more choice.”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Uh, let's talk mental models. Uh, you have a book coming out. It's super thinking. I've read it. It's great. Uh, what What made you create the book?
A So, um, in a way it's been ruminating for like 20 years. Like I had wanted to and started writing different versions of this book for a while. Um, but it literally lapsed for like five years. I could get into it if you want. But then what happened was maybe four years ago Duck to Go started to more take off and we have not really hired a lot of people from outside the company. We've really tried to grow people within the company. And so we had this executive team that was, um, you know, needed to step up and learn more, and I was trying to understand, ok, how do I train our executives? Like, what do they need to do to really actually make good strategic decisions more of the time? Because that's really what executives do. Um, and I got to thinking, ok, what I really think it is, is Which is really counterintuitive is I think they need to know like these 300 different topics, these 300 mental models, which I think you've come onto the same, uh, notion is like, if you knew all these things and internalized it and could pattern match relatively effectively, like the situation applies to these three mental models, um, then you can skip lower levels of thinking and have this whole like higher level conversation really quickly.
AI assessment note: “I was trying to understand, ok, how do I train our executives?”
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D 4 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.30
Q Is that how you solve them? Like you have a mental checklist that you iterate through?
A Well, I was doing that at the time. And I was like, um, wouldn't it be cool if there was something like a problem solvers handbook? And it was like, you know, when you're faced with a problem, like here's like a checklist or help jog your memory to see if you can look at any solutions. So I started on that road and then that, I, that didn't, I couldn't get that to work either. So then Five years after that, it was like, more like this problem, and then I end up with this list of a hundred things, and I asked the, the guy, and he's, he knew like 30, and I was like, okay, well that to me is, um, what people's core curriculum should be. They should learn the rest that they don't know. Um, so then I went and I tried to more systematically list all of them. So like, I went back to Munger, and you know, he has that quote about 80 to 90 models, but no one ever lists them all.
AI assessment note: “Well, I was doing that at the time.”
