AMHAR
Builder. Entrepreneur. Lifelong Learner. Independent Thinker.
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📚 Resources
A Brief History of Time: Stephen Hawking's Cosmology
oleh Stephen Hawking
🔍 Patterns
Feedback Loops
across various systems
🧠 Mental Models
Hierarchy of Wounds
Mental Model
🛠️ Tools
Circle of Competence Mapper
Map your professional competence & strategic opportunities
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Hi, I'm Amhar. This is my personal playground and lab, where I play seriously. To me, reading, thinking, and building are all the same thing.
Here I follow my curiosity, then record everything in the open. My main days go to business and work. I fill this space in between, for the pleasure of thinking itself.
All sorts of things gather and connect here: 150+ book notes, a collection of mental models, AI tools, and lessons from building businesses since 2013. Some are polished, some are still half-finished. They all come from the same curiosity.
This space keeps changing as long as I stay curious. Take what is useful, skip what is still rough.
From Reading to Action
My process of synthesizing knowledge across disciplines into actionable frameworks
Read
Books across disciplines (150+ notes)
📚 Read
Notice
Patterns across domains
🔍 Notice
Distill
Mental models & frameworks
🧠 Distill
Synthesize
Essays & insights
✍️ Synthesize
Build
Interactive tools
🛠️ Build
📚 Read
Books across disciplines (150+ notes)
🔍 Notice
Patterns across domains
🧠 Distill
Mental models & frameworks
✍️ Synthesize
Essays & insights
🛠️ Build
Interactive tools
Each stage builds on the previous one: starting from reading diverse sources, then recognizing patterns across disciplines, distilling into frameworks, synthesizing insights through writing, and finally making everything actionable through tools.
"Knowledge compounds exponentially when you connect ideas across domains."
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Each content type serves two needs: value to read and insight into thinking process
💡 Tip: Start with Essays or Tools for immediate value, or follow Books → Patterns → Mental Models to understand my thinking process
By The Numbers
These numbers are here for transparency about the scope of my exploration
Building, learning, sharing since 2013. Still learning every day.
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." — Aristotle
Influences & Inspirations
Thinkers, philosophers, and entrepreneurs who shaped my thinking. East meets West
Synthesizing Eastern wisdom and Western thinking to find universal principles across cultures and time.
"Standing on the shoulders of giants by combining insights from the best thinkers to develop better mental models"
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Weekly insights on mental models, decision-making, and clear thinking.
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Latest Editions
Second-Order Thinking in Business Decisions
How to think beyond immediate consequences and consider the ripple effects of your choices.
1 week ago
The Compounding Effect of Daily Learning
Why consistent small learning beats occasional big efforts, and how to implement it.
2 weeks ago
Mental Models for Better Decision Making
Five mental models I use daily to make clearer and more rational decisions.
3 weeks ago
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." (Benjamin Franklin)