Data -> Information -> Knowledge -> Wisdom Basically sums the "Model Thinking" Course by the same professor. The style in which the book was written, makes it a perfect handbook/manual for class... And I guess that regardless of one's background, and with enough openness, you can discern magical phenomena (obviously it's just that we ignore how stuff work), while reading this book. Now back to the oldest idea about models as mere reductions, and are not reliable or so: Yes they are reductions, and are reliable for the assumptions, to some extent, about those same reduction. "To become wise you’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. —Charlie Munger" The good news is it's better to have scattered knowledge about a thing, than no knowledge at all. Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don’t make sense. And that’s not science. That’s just taking notes. —Geoffrey West

The book is great but don’t go for the audiobook.