There Is No Perfect Solution
- June 18, 2026
- Ideas, Productivity, Tips
Waiting for the perfect tool, plan, or answer feels responsible. It's often the nirvana fallacy. Here's why I choose good-enough tradeoffs on purpose.
Mental Models List
- June 18, 2026
- Productivity, Ideas, Tips
Mental models are shortcuts for thinking. I keep a short list of ones that survived contact with real decisions - not every model on Wikipedia.
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- 12 Week Year
- 24 Oras
- 700 Club Asia
- Academic
- Acoustic Guitar
- Adobo
- AI
- AI Coding
- Alex Eala
- Algorithm
- Ambient Music
- Analog
- Analytics
- Anki
- Anti-Fragile
- Archive
- Arroz Caldo
- Assembly
- Athletes
- Atomic Habits
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- Audio
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- Beginner Guide
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- Birth Story
- Blogging
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- Bootstrap
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- Bullet Journal
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- Buying Guide
- Cal Newport
- Capture
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- Chicken Adobo
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- Christian Music
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- Citations
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- David Allen
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- Developer Life
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- Discovery
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- Earbuds
- Easy Cooking
- ECQ
- Encryption
- Evergreen Notes
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- Excalidraw
- Express
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- Feynman Technique
- Filipino
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- Filtering
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- Focus
- Formatting
- Free Hosting
- Frontend
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- Garage Concept
- Garlic
- Ginger
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- GMA News
- Goal Setting
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- Good Enough
- Grand Slam
- Graph
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- GTD
- Guitar Worship
- Habits
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- Hidden Pregnancy
- History
- Home Cooking
- Hugo
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- Hugoplate
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- Inoreader
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- Journaling
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- Knowledge Lifecycle
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- Luhmann
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- MacOS
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- Memory
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- Nirvana Fallacy
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- PKM
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- Pro Tennis
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- Site Migration
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- Slow Cooker
- Slow Productivity
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- Tailwind CSS
- Taxonomy
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- TiddlyWiki
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