A strong strand of the book is portable thinking tools: simple mental models for decision-making, problem-framing, and risk assessment. Thorpe advocates for clarity through structure — asking clarifying questions, distinguishing facts from assumptions, mapping causes and consequences. He encourages a toolbox approach: Bayes-like probabilistic thinking, Occam’s razor for simplicity, and inversion (“what would make this fail?”) to expose blind spots.
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