We are two students, friends, and venture partners for Contrary Capital devoted to learning as much as possible across multiple disciplines. While we value education, we believe that university alone doesn't teach all the tools needed to make sense of the world. We call these Mental Models - concepts, frameworks, or world-views taken from different fields and applied to the world around us. We want to build a toolbox of these models - from some of the greatest thinkers in the world. Support ...

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Before Katrina Lake was the CEO of a public company, she was a student at Harvard Business School learning the craft. Before Peter Thiel built Paypal and eventually his capital empire, he was a lawyer and studied philosophy. Before Charles Hudson become a venture capitalist, managing his own fund at Precursor ventures, he started off as a product management intern in college. A common bind between all these people is that many have gone down a similar path, yet only a few break out like they ...