Brain Food
Ideas on decision-making, mental models, and better thinking.
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Brain Food is Farnam Street's weekly newsletter on mental models, decision-making, and clearer thinking, written in the same spirit as the Farnam Street blog founded by Shane Parrish. Each edition pulls together a short essay, a handful of quotes, and links to ideas worth sitting with rather than skimming past.
It isn't tied to news cycles at all. The goal is timeless thinking tools you can apply to real decisions, drawing on psychology, philosophy, and the habits of great investors and scientists. Readers describe it less as something to catch up on and more as something to slow down with once a week.
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