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Why clarity, memory, and judgement have to be designed before people can use what they know It happens everywhere: in classrooms, meetings, onboarding sessions, strategy decks, product briefings, pitches, public policy, coaching, and creative work. A plan is explained in language that is technically correct and apparently complete; nothing has been concealed, and every relevant detail seems to be present. Yet the work continues as though understanding were automatic, as thoug

Research-backed guide to better decision-making: A decision never really ends at the moment we make it. It keeps travelling. It enters the team, changes what people pay attention to, creates new habits, rewards some behaviours, unintentionally punishes others, and sometimes returns months later wearing a completely different face. That is why a choice can feel sensible on Monday and become expensive by December. This is the real value of second-order thinking: In the episode,

Some mistakes are surprises. Many are not. They happen because nobody asked the uncomfortable question early enough: what would make this fail? That is the power of inversion. Instead of only asking how to get a good result, you turn the problem around and ask how to avoid a bad one. This sounds simple, but it changes the quality of your thinking. It pulls hidden risks into view. It turns vague ambition into practical safeguards. The inversion mental model has been used in ma

Most bad decisions look reasonable at first. A rushed discount boosts sales, then trains customers to wait for discounts. A strict new rule improves one metric, then damages trust. A quick apology calms a problem, then creates a precedent no one meant to set. That is the gap second-order thinking tries to close. It asks a simple but demanding question: And then what? First-order thinking looks at the immediate result. Second-order thinking looks at the result after the result

Most problems are not solved badly because people lack intelligence. They are solved badly because people start in the wrong place. They begin with habits, assumptions, industry rules, competitor behaviour, old budgets, inherited processes, or “how we have always done it”. First principles thinking cuts through that. It asks a sharper question: What do we know is true, and what can we build from there? That sounds simple. It is not. Done well, it can change how teams design p

Article Good thinking is not about having a high IQ. It is about using better tools. Mental models are those tools. They are the reusable ideas, patterns, and frameworks that help you understand how the world works. A good model helps you ask better questions, avoid predictable mistakes, and make decisions with less noise. No single model is enough. The point is to build a “latticework”, a term often associated with Charlie Munger, where ideas from psychology, physics, econom

Host: Maximiliano Fabres Guest: Ian Evans Location: Bristol, UK Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdGr08B6Q0Y Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6kDONO2XwnyD9yZCnh3aOa?si=f7b60e48920c411f - Maximiliano: Hello guys, welcome back to Beyond the Horizon podcast and the podcast where you go beyond uh the knowledge that you currently have. Well, that didn't work. That was expanding people's horizons. Nathaniel: Sorry, my bad, guys. Okay, we're still working on that. M

Host: Maximiliano Fabres Guest: Mark Detzler Location: Bristol, UK Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1yigBSQNdQ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/23t8ZRBKWpJTC8o6k69soN?si=f7dffe9f35f94f29 - Maximiliano: Hello guys, welcome back to uh Beyond the Horizon podcast where we uh well where you expand your views on life, um with me uh today uh very important uh not not only important but incredible guest. Mark: Thank you very much, I'm very I'm very flattered. Maximi

Host: Maximiliano Fabres Guest: Zac Payne Location: Bristol, UK Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyzQJvVkLVE&t=2426s Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5gOYC63X1jwxiiwfnFfh7I?si=3fb69d523a51441f - Maximiliano: So So if if it would be for me, I would live in a hut in the middle of the woods. Zac: Yeah. Maximiliano: I don't mind it. Like I I really would love that. Have some chickens. Zac: Have some. Maximiliano: Like I would love Zac: I would love that as well.

Host: Maximiliano Fabres Guest: Zac Payne Location: Bristol, UK Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyzQJvVkLVE&t=2426s Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5gOYC63X1jwxiiwfnFfh7I?si=3fb69d523a51441f - Maximiliano: Hello guys. Uh, welcome back to Beyond the Horizon podcast. Uh, thank you very much for listening again uh for the Well, I don't know. Well, anyways, um, thank you very much. I'm just here uh with our new guest. Uh, so yes, Zack. Zac: Zack. Yeah. Maximili

Host: Maximiliano Fabres Location: Bristol, UK Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmAO5PF6bPo&t=1557s&pp=0gcJCaMLAYcqIYzv - Maximiliano: Maximiliano Fabres Question: Question Maximiliano: Hello guys, welcome back to uh Beyond the Horizon podcast uh the podcast uh where you expand your horizons on life uh with uh you today uh your one and only guest uh Maxim Fes Aes. Yeah, I know I got two surnames uh but yeah, well uh I'm Latin American so that's why. Uh well uh today i

Host: Maximiliano Fabres Guest: Jamie Tipper Location: Bristol, UK Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvljpfXs_JM Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/07TMZfwHyURDsHY9dSL6dk?si=b289291abf7147c5 - Maximiliano: Hello guys, welcome back to Beyond the Horizon podcast. Uh the podcast where you expand your horizons of knowledge. Um with me uh today uh Jamie Tipper. Jamie: Yes. Maximiliano: Uh so Jamie uh would you like to start with a candle? Lighting off the candle. Jam

Host: Maximiliano Fabres Guest: Dr. Ignacio Deza Location: Bristol, UK Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd5uusiNw9o&t=4s Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5z1Krpg0zttNZa1Xq7I4Jw?si=60ccc1e11b424e65 - Maximiliano: Hello guys, welcome back uh to Beyond the Horizon podcast. Uh the podcast where you expand your horizons of knowledge. Uh I am your host Maximana Faves and with me today uh our guest Ignasio Desa. Uh so Ignasio, who who are you? Dr. Deza: Well, I'm a

Host: Maximiliano Fabres Guest: Ian Evans Location: Bristol, UK Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxJ1hzp1aJw&t=765s Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6CIDLAd0PnFIX54vaAAUIa?si=57a46b4f74b144fc - Maximiliano: Hello guys, welcome back to Beyond the Horizon podcast. Uh the podcast where you uh expand your horizons of knowledge. Uh with me today, uh Ian Evans. Ian: Hi. Maximiliano: Uh so Ian, uh who are you? Ian: Um I'm Yeah, Ian. And I do ultra marathons. Well, I

Host: Maximiliano Fabres Guest: Rossie Henderson Location: Bristol, UK Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EslNVmnrXko&t=74s Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2uogWV0iqCwXCa5M6tWIxz?si=3ffde9707dbf4030 - Maximiliano: Hello guys, welcome back to Beyond the Horizon podcast, the podcast where you expand your horizons of knowledge. With me today, Rossy Henderson Beg. Rossy: Hi. Maximiliano: Hello there. So, Rossy, um, tell us a little bit about yourself. Rossy: Okay.

Host: Maximiliano Fabres Guest: Malcom Golding Location: Bristol, UK Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH9uhxfw-CQ&t=667s Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Tc1YpM4tJRTfA7PeGzuIc?si=0e39cc732c684f9d - Malcolm: I was always happy drawing because that was an escape. I'm dyslexic, but painting seemed to be just natural. The owner said, "Would you come back to India and paint a big picture in my new house?" and I became friends with people like Indira Gandhi. That

Host: Maximiliano Fabres Location: Bristol, UK Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVufoqpQgxY&t=3s - Maximiliano Fabres: Hello guys, welcome back to Beyond the Horizon podcast. The podcast where you expand your horizons of knowledge. Uh today we're doing a little bit of a different episode. Today guys, we are doing a solo episode. So you'll uh you guys will get to know a little bit more about myself uh through some stories that I've prepared for you. Uh all the stories

Host: Maximiliano Fabres Guest: Mitchell Watkins Location: Bristol, UK Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkreOkdgPP0&t=10s Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/35nbux65X7UYzfUQDn1W9L?si=c8b1d6568abb407b - Maximiliano: Hello guys, welcome back to Beyond the Horizon podcast. Uh the podcast where you expand your horizons of knowledge. Uh today with me, uh Micheline Watkins. Mitchell: Thank you. Maximiliano: Now, I had trouble with the surname. Uh Mish. Mitchell: Mish

Host: Maximiliano Fabres Guest: Sam Barkley Location: Bristol, UK Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6q6axYKw9o&t=947s Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/51q4PzVlp6TJGBAjexfZWC?si=6112edc6f71e4459 - Maximiliano: Hello guys, welcome back to Beyond the Horizon podcast. The podcast where you expand your horizons of knowledge. Today with me, Sam Barkclays. Sam is a student at Bristol University. Sam: Oh, UWE. Maximiliano: My bad. Sam: Here in Bristol, well, he studi

Host: Maximiliano Fabres Guest: Nathaniel Fox-Williamson Location: Bristol, UK Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6hagAyVd74&t=5s Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EDz29kyLSo2FG0C8r5tHS?si=9c4126687f8a464a - Aidan: But, going into university, I kind of thought I want more of the hands-on stuff. I didn't want to do another 3 years of sitting down. And so, I pitched this. Oh, and I just had this one like director guy who I had never met before. He was just like,