A mental model is a compact pattern for how some part of the world works, an explanation you can carry out of one situation and into the next. Compounding explains how small, faithful deposits become fortunes. Incentives explain why people do what they do. Entropy explains why the garden, the friendship, and the budget all drift toward disorder unless energy is spent on them.
Your thinking can only be as good as the toolbox it draws from. With one model, every problem gets the same treatment; with a full latticework of models, you can walk around a situation, see it from several sides, and choose the tool that actually fits. Scripture teaches these same patterns and also grounds them: "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge" (Prov 1:7), and "without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed" (Prov 15:22). The models give you clarity; the Word gives the clarity somewhere true to stand.
This project maps the mental models onto the Bible's wisdom literature. Scripture's wisdom books are themselves a deck of mental models: the Hebrew mashal, the proverb form, is a compressed, transferable pattern for reading reality, exactly what the modern latticework attempts. The difference is in the foundation: the modern canon stands on its own claims, while biblical wisdom grounds every model in "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge" (Prov 1:7). Mental models provide diagnostic clarity; biblical wisdom supplies the moral foundation, the telos, and the guardrails against misuse.
Each wisdom book specializes in a region of the model space. Proverbs owns reliable patterns (economics, diligence, physical systems). Ecclesiastes owns uncertainty (randomness, tail risk, limits). Job owns epistemology (model failure and belief revision). The Psalms are wisdom sung and prayed, training the heart that uses every other model. The Sermon on the Mount is densest in the psychology suit, with Jesus teaching as the sage "greater than Solomon" (Matt 12:42), and James bridges Proverbs and the Sermon. Seventy-one models, six suits, one foundation.
Draw the Card of the Day, browse a suit, flip cards to read the verse, the teaching, and how to live it. A few cards a day beats a binge; compounding applies to learning too.
Drill the deck with the games, solo or with friends at one computer. Correct answers earn XP and medals until each model is gold: truly yours, ready when you need it.
Facing something real? Open What Are You Facing? for the handful of models and Scriptures made for that moment. Note the ten you reach for most: that's your personal latticework.