Mental Models: How to Think, Act, and Win

February 3, 2025. Super Bowl week. The phone buzzes, caller ID: Washington, D.C. It's the CFTC, calling about the prediction markets we'd launched two hours earlier. The first regulated event contracts on a major U.S. sporting event in history.Moments like that aren't survived with luck. They're survived with mental models.Mental Models: How to Think, Act, and Win distills 50 of the most powerful thinking frameworks ever developed, the same tools used by Elon Musk, Charlie Munger, Jeff Bezos, and history's sharpest decision-makers, into one practical playbook.Each model follows the same battle-tested structure: the master who wielded it, the principle behind it, the story that proves it, and exactly how to apply it to your business, your money, and your life. No academic theory. No filler. Just frameworks that work.Inside, you'll learn to:• Break impossible problems down with First Principles Thinking• Avoid catastrophic mistakes using Inversion and Second-Order Thinking• Build wealth through Compound Growth, Leverage, and Margin of Safety• Spot opportunity with Network Effects, Optionality, and the 80/20 Principle• Master the psychology of Incentives, Loss Aversion, and Confirmation BiasWritten by Spencer Gareiss, co-founder of Robinhood Derivatives, fintech founder, and Army Reserve Captain, this is the book for operators, builders, and investors who want an edge they can actually use.Read one model a day. Apply it. In 50 days, you won't just know how the best thinkers in the world think. You'll think that way yourself. Read more