About ReadGlobe

ReadGlobe is a free reference to how humans think — the mental models, cognitive biases, and great ideas that shape every decision — each explained clearly and cross-linked into one navigable graph. Where most sites give you a definition with no context, and encyclopedias give depth with no connections, ReadGlobe does both: it explains a thinking tool, shows a worked example, and links it to everything around it — the related models, the biases it counters, and the thinkers behind it.

Today the reference holds:

• 88 mental models
• 60 cognitive biases
• 6 ideas
• 6 thinkers
• 4 schools of thought
• 47 comparisons
• 50 books
• 11 reading lists
• 6 reading rooms
• 5 visual histories
• 24 quotes

Who builds it

ReadGlobe is built and curated by Paulo de Vries. It is part of the Read family alongside Read Stacks, a companion project that distils the ideas inside non-fiction books, ReadMinute, which summarises key ideas in one-minute reads, and AudiobookIndex, an audiobook reference site. All come from the same conviction: that the canon of human thought should be accessible, connected, and practical — not locked behind academic prose or scattered across the web.

Our standards

• Every page cites its sources (Wikiquote, Wikipedia, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Project Gutenberg).
• Disputed attributions are flagged, not hidden — confidence is marked on quotes.
• We synthesise and connect; we don’t fabricate. Editorial interpretation is labelled as ours.
• ReadGlobe is informational reference, not advice — we describe what thinkers argued, we don’t diagnose or prescribe.

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