Only the Big Ideas # 1 — Complexity, Game Theory, Computer Science, Economics

Welcome to Only the Big Ideas #1 — Surfacing big ideas from big disciplines

4 articles + mental models

Hackernoon — Beginner’s Guide to Game Theory (Michael Karnjanaprakorn)

• Prisoner’s Dilemma
• Tragedy of the Commons
• Nash Equilibrium
• Bounded Rationality
• and more..

On Being — A Shift to Humility: Resilience and Expanding the Edge of Change (@andrew_zolli)

• Complexity
• Resilience
• Self-organization

The Happy Philosopher — How Understanding the Marginal Utility of Money Will Make you Happier (TheHappyPhilosopher)

• Marginal utility
• Utility
• Scarcity

New York Times — Learning to Think Like a Computer (Laura Pappano)

• Abstraction
• Pipelining
• Loops