7 PROVEN MENTAL MODELS FOR ENGINEERING MANAGERS

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

There are seven mental models - Inversion, Inertia, Second-Order Thinking, Entropy, Hanlon's Razor, Bottlenecks, and Activation Energy - that can help engineering managers make better decisions and avoid costly mistakes. This post explains each model along with real-world examples. For example, inversion means to invert a problem to look at it from the opposite perspective, such as thinking about what you don't want in an engineer when hiring.