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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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Derek Sivers

Author; founder of CD Baby

2 of my favourite books @simonsinek great reminders #books | @AlbertBridgeCap Thinking Fast & Slow is one of my favorite books (unsurprisingly). | @Bradley_James2 Misbehaving Thinking Fast and Slow. Undoing Project. | @Qwyntessence A tough read but an awesome book. Their biography is also a great read. | @devspeed @RachelAppel Great book! | @echo_chamberz Read the book, it's great. PDFs are online | @geriwithetc @TwinsKevin @mayawiley @BeschlossDC @AliVelshi @kaitlancollins @scribe827 @ChrisCuomo I am an absolute maniac on the topic of cognitive biases of evey flavor. So much fun. (The ?bible? is Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman?s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.) | @huishhodl That's an incredible book! We have a summary guide of the book here if it's helpful to you. | @invinciblesaad I enjoyed that book, too. Fascinating. | @jasonzweigwsj is right Superforecasting is most important book since Thinking, Fast & Slow @ptetlock @dgardner | @periodicvideos can't recommend 'Thinking Fast and Slow' highly enough. I'm reading 'David and Goliath' now, which has its moments | @ranvijay81 @KiritManral One of the best books | @warwickmansell you should read Daniel Kahneman's book (Thinking Fast and Slow) you'd enjoy it I think. | A few weeks ago, @vulture asked me to describe 10 books that have impacted me along the way. List just out: Chinua Achebe, Dorothy Day, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ralph Ellison, Bernard Malamud, Doris Kearns Goodwin, & more: | Covers all three phases of the author's career: his early days working oncognitive bias, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness. | Fun list of 20 cognitive biases screwing up our decisions. The best book on this topic I ever read was of course Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, fast and slow". It's one of the few books I would label as essential reading for nearly everyone. Full list here: | I love surprising scientific findings, as well as information about how our brains work. This is a treasure trove of both. Turns out, our brains are constantly misleading us. It’s not clear that learning how that’s the case reduces the chances of it happening, but it’s fascinating theless. | I started reading Thinking, Fast and Slow and I became increasingly convinced of my own fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life. | If you liked ?Predictably Irrational? or ?Stumbling on Happiness? or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | If you liked “Predictably Irrational” or “Stumbling on Happiness” or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | Operationalizing #AI >> Decisionmaking often comes down to resolving the conflict in our minds between the “impulsive, automatic, intuitive” and the “thoughtful, deliberate, calculating” systems of thinking. ————— Brilliant book "Thinking, Fast and Slow": | Persuasion Reading List. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | The book ?Thinking, Fast and Slow? by Daniel Kahneman a psychologist and the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics has become essential reading in many baseball front offices and among coaching staffs. | Thinking Fast and Slow Book review A Noble Prize winner giving away his secrets in a single book! An INCREDIBLE MUST BUY: Loaded with insights, stories, case studies Stunning revelations of our mind. C pics 4 detailed book review & more here

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Marc Andreessen

Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz

2 of my favourite books @simonsinek great reminders #books | @AlbertBridgeCap Thinking Fast & Slow is one of my favorite books (unsurprisingly). | @Bradley_James2 Misbehaving Thinking Fast and Slow. Undoing Project. | @Qwyntessence A tough read but an awesome book. Their biography is also a great read. | @devspeed @RachelAppel Great book! | @echo_chamberz Read the book, it's great. PDFs are online | @geriwithetc @TwinsKevin @mayawiley @BeschlossDC @AliVelshi @kaitlancollins @scribe827 @ChrisCuomo I am an absolute maniac on the topic of cognitive biases of evey flavor. So much fun. (The ?bible? is Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman?s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.) | @huishhodl That's an incredible book! We have a summary guide of the book here if it's helpful to you. | @invinciblesaad I enjoyed that book, too. Fascinating. | @jasonzweigwsj is right Superforecasting is most important book since Thinking, Fast & Slow @ptetlock @dgardner | @periodicvideos can't recommend 'Thinking Fast and Slow' highly enough. I'm reading 'David and Goliath' now, which has its moments | @ranvijay81 @KiritManral One of the best books | @warwickmansell you should read Daniel Kahneman's book (Thinking Fast and Slow) you'd enjoy it I think. | A few weeks ago, @vulture asked me to describe 10 books that have impacted me along the way. List just out: Chinua Achebe, Dorothy Day, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ralph Ellison, Bernard Malamud, Doris Kearns Goodwin, & more: | Covers all three phases of the author's career: his early days working oncognitive bias, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness. | Fun list of 20 cognitive biases screwing up our decisions. The best book on this topic I ever read was of course Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, fast and slow". It's one of the few books I would label as essential reading for nearly everyone. Full list here: | I love surprising scientific findings, as well as information about how our brains work. This is a treasure trove of both. Turns out, our brains are constantly misleading us. It’s not clear that learning how that’s the case reduces the chances of it happening, but it’s fascinating theless. | I started reading Thinking, Fast and Slow and I became increasingly convinced of my own fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life. | If you liked ?Predictably Irrational? or ?Stumbling on Happiness? or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | If you liked “Predictably Irrational” or “Stumbling on Happiness” or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | Operationalizing #AI >> Decisionmaking often comes down to resolving the conflict in our minds between the “impulsive, automatic, intuitive” and the “thoughtful, deliberate, calculating” systems of thinking. ————— Brilliant book "Thinking, Fast and Slow": | Persuasion Reading List. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | The book ?Thinking, Fast and Slow? by Daniel Kahneman a psychologist and the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics has become essential reading in many baseball front offices and among coaching staffs. | Thinking Fast and Slow Book review A Noble Prize winner giving away his secrets in a single book! An INCREDIBLE MUST BUY: Loaded with insights, stories, case studies Stunning revelations of our mind. C pics 4 detailed book review & more here

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Barack Obama

44th President of the United States

2 of my favourite books @simonsinek great reminders #books | @AlbertBridgeCap Thinking Fast & Slow is one of my favorite books (unsurprisingly). | @Bradley_James2 Misbehaving Thinking Fast and Slow. Undoing Project. | @Qwyntessence A tough read but an awesome book. Their biography is also a great read. | @devspeed @RachelAppel Great book! | @echo_chamberz Read the book, it's great. PDFs are online | @geriwithetc @TwinsKevin @mayawiley @BeschlossDC @AliVelshi @kaitlancollins @scribe827 @ChrisCuomo I am an absolute maniac on the topic of cognitive biases of evey flavor. So much fun. (The ?bible? is Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman?s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.) | @huishhodl That's an incredible book! We have a summary guide of the book here if it's helpful to you. | @invinciblesaad I enjoyed that book, too. Fascinating. | @jasonzweigwsj is right Superforecasting is most important book since Thinking, Fast & Slow @ptetlock @dgardner | @periodicvideos can't recommend 'Thinking Fast and Slow' highly enough. I'm reading 'David and Goliath' now, which has its moments | @ranvijay81 @KiritManral One of the best books | @warwickmansell you should read Daniel Kahneman's book (Thinking Fast and Slow) you'd enjoy it I think. | A few weeks ago, @vulture asked me to describe 10 books that have impacted me along the way. List just out: Chinua Achebe, Dorothy Day, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ralph Ellison, Bernard Malamud, Doris Kearns Goodwin, & more: | Covers all three phases of the author's career: his early days working oncognitive bias, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness. | Fun list of 20 cognitive biases screwing up our decisions. The best book on this topic I ever read was of course Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, fast and slow". It's one of the few books I would label as essential reading for nearly everyone. Full list here: | I love surprising scientific findings, as well as information about how our brains work. This is a treasure trove of both. Turns out, our brains are constantly misleading us. It’s not clear that learning how that’s the case reduces the chances of it happening, but it’s fascinating theless. | I started reading Thinking, Fast and Slow and I became increasingly convinced of my own fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life. | If you liked ?Predictably Irrational? or ?Stumbling on Happiness? or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | If you liked “Predictably Irrational” or “Stumbling on Happiness” or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | Operationalizing #AI >> Decisionmaking often comes down to resolving the conflict in our minds between the “impulsive, automatic, intuitive” and the “thoughtful, deliberate, calculating” systems of thinking. ————— Brilliant book "Thinking, Fast and Slow": | Persuasion Reading List. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | The book ?Thinking, Fast and Slow? by Daniel Kahneman a psychologist and the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics has become essential reading in many baseball front offices and among coaching staffs. | Thinking Fast and Slow Book review A Noble Prize winner giving away his secrets in a single book! An INCREDIBLE MUST BUY: Loaded with insights, stories, case studies Stunning revelations of our mind. C pics 4 detailed book review & more here

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Ev Williams

Co-founder of Twitter and Medium

2 of my favourite books @simonsinek great reminders #books | @AlbertBridgeCap Thinking Fast & Slow is one of my favorite books (unsurprisingly). | @Bradley_James2 Misbehaving Thinking Fast and Slow. Undoing Project. | @Qwyntessence A tough read but an awesome book. Their biography is also a great read. | @devspeed @RachelAppel Great book! | @echo_chamberz Read the book, it's great. PDFs are online | @geriwithetc @TwinsKevin @mayawiley @BeschlossDC @AliVelshi @kaitlancollins @scribe827 @ChrisCuomo I am an absolute maniac on the topic of cognitive biases of evey flavor. So much fun. (The ?bible? is Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman?s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.) | @huishhodl That's an incredible book! We have a summary guide of the book here if it's helpful to you. | @invinciblesaad I enjoyed that book, too. Fascinating. | @jasonzweigwsj is right Superforecasting is most important book since Thinking, Fast & Slow @ptetlock @dgardner | @periodicvideos can't recommend 'Thinking Fast and Slow' highly enough. I'm reading 'David and Goliath' now, which has its moments | @ranvijay81 @KiritManral One of the best books | @warwickmansell you should read Daniel Kahneman's book (Thinking Fast and Slow) you'd enjoy it I think. | A few weeks ago, @vulture asked me to describe 10 books that have impacted me along the way. List just out: Chinua Achebe, Dorothy Day, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ralph Ellison, Bernard Malamud, Doris Kearns Goodwin, & more: | Covers all three phases of the author's career: his early days working oncognitive bias, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness. | Fun list of 20 cognitive biases screwing up our decisions. The best book on this topic I ever read was of course Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, fast and slow". It's one of the few books I would label as essential reading for nearly everyone. Full list here: | I love surprising scientific findings, as well as information about how our brains work. This is a treasure trove of both. Turns out, our brains are constantly misleading us. It’s not clear that learning how that’s the case reduces the chances of it happening, but it’s fascinating theless. | I started reading Thinking, Fast and Slow and I became increasingly convinced of my own fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life. | If you liked ?Predictably Irrational? or ?Stumbling on Happiness? or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | If you liked “Predictably Irrational” or “Stumbling on Happiness” or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | Operationalizing #AI >> Decisionmaking often comes down to resolving the conflict in our minds between the “impulsive, automatic, intuitive” and the “thoughtful, deliberate, calculating” systems of thinking. ————— Brilliant book "Thinking, Fast and Slow": | Persuasion Reading List. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | The book ?Thinking, Fast and Slow? by Daniel Kahneman a psychologist and the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics has become essential reading in many baseball front offices and among coaching staffs. | Thinking Fast and Slow Book review A Noble Prize winner giving away his secrets in a single book! An INCREDIBLE MUST BUY: Loaded with insights, stories, case studies Stunning revelations of our mind. C pics 4 detailed book review & more here

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Stewart Brand

Writer; founder of the Whole Earth Catalog

2 of my favourite books @simonsinek great reminders #books | @AlbertBridgeCap Thinking Fast & Slow is one of my favorite books (unsurprisingly). | @Bradley_James2 Misbehaving Thinking Fast and Slow. Undoing Project. | @Qwyntessence A tough read but an awesome book. Their biography is also a great read. | @devspeed @RachelAppel Great book! | @echo_chamberz Read the book, it's great. PDFs are online | @geriwithetc @TwinsKevin @mayawiley @BeschlossDC @AliVelshi @kaitlancollins @scribe827 @ChrisCuomo I am an absolute maniac on the topic of cognitive biases of evey flavor. So much fun. (The ?bible? is Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman?s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.) | @huishhodl That's an incredible book! We have a summary guide of the book here if it's helpful to you. | @invinciblesaad I enjoyed that book, too. Fascinating. | @jasonzweigwsj is right Superforecasting is most important book since Thinking, Fast & Slow @ptetlock @dgardner | @periodicvideos can't recommend 'Thinking Fast and Slow' highly enough. I'm reading 'David and Goliath' now, which has its moments | @ranvijay81 @KiritManral One of the best books | @warwickmansell you should read Daniel Kahneman's book (Thinking Fast and Slow) you'd enjoy it I think. | A few weeks ago, @vulture asked me to describe 10 books that have impacted me along the way. List just out: Chinua Achebe, Dorothy Day, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ralph Ellison, Bernard Malamud, Doris Kearns Goodwin, & more: | Covers all three phases of the author's career: his early days working oncognitive bias, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness. | Fun list of 20 cognitive biases screwing up our decisions. The best book on this topic I ever read was of course Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, fast and slow". It's one of the few books I would label as essential reading for nearly everyone. Full list here: | I love surprising scientific findings, as well as information about how our brains work. This is a treasure trove of both. Turns out, our brains are constantly misleading us. It’s not clear that learning how that’s the case reduces the chances of it happening, but it’s fascinating theless. | I started reading Thinking, Fast and Slow and I became increasingly convinced of my own fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life. | If you liked ?Predictably Irrational? or ?Stumbling on Happiness? or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | If you liked “Predictably Irrational” or “Stumbling on Happiness” or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | Operationalizing #AI >> Decisionmaking often comes down to resolving the conflict in our minds between the “impulsive, automatic, intuitive” and the “thoughtful, deliberate, calculating” systems of thinking. ————— Brilliant book "Thinking, Fast and Slow": | Persuasion Reading List. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | The book ?Thinking, Fast and Slow? by Daniel Kahneman a psychologist and the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics has become essential reading in many baseball front offices and among coaching staffs. | Thinking Fast and Slow Book review A Noble Prize winner giving away his secrets in a single book! An INCREDIBLE MUST BUY: Loaded with insights, stories, case studies Stunning revelations of our mind. C pics 4 detailed book review & more here

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Author, essayist, mathematical statistician, and risk analyst

2 of my favourite books @simonsinek great reminders #books | @AlbertBridgeCap Thinking Fast & Slow is one of my favorite books (unsurprisingly). | @Bradley_James2 Misbehaving Thinking Fast and Slow. Undoing Project. | @Qwyntessence A tough read but an awesome book. Their biography is also a great read. | @devspeed @RachelAppel Great book! | @echo_chamberz Read the book, it's great. PDFs are online | @geriwithetc @TwinsKevin @mayawiley @BeschlossDC @AliVelshi @kaitlancollins @scribe827 @ChrisCuomo I am an absolute maniac on the topic of cognitive biases of evey flavor. So much fun. (The ?bible? is Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman?s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.) | @huishhodl That's an incredible book! We have a summary guide of the book here if it's helpful to you. | @invinciblesaad I enjoyed that book, too. Fascinating. | @jasonzweigwsj is right Superforecasting is most important book since Thinking, Fast & Slow @ptetlock @dgardner | @periodicvideos can't recommend 'Thinking Fast and Slow' highly enough. I'm reading 'David and Goliath' now, which has its moments | @ranvijay81 @KiritManral One of the best books | @warwickmansell you should read Daniel Kahneman's book (Thinking Fast and Slow) you'd enjoy it I think. | A few weeks ago, @vulture asked me to describe 10 books that have impacted me along the way. List just out: Chinua Achebe, Dorothy Day, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ralph Ellison, Bernard Malamud, Doris Kearns Goodwin, & more: | Covers all three phases of the author's career: his early days working oncognitive bias, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness. | Fun list of 20 cognitive biases screwing up our decisions. The best book on this topic I ever read was of course Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, fast and slow". It's one of the few books I would label as essential reading for nearly everyone. Full list here: | I love surprising scientific findings, as well as information about how our brains work. This is a treasure trove of both. Turns out, our brains are constantly misleading us. It’s not clear that learning how that’s the case reduces the chances of it happening, but it’s fascinating theless. | I started reading Thinking, Fast and Slow and I became increasingly convinced of my own fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life. | If you liked ?Predictably Irrational? or ?Stumbling on Happiness? or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | If you liked “Predictably Irrational” or “Stumbling on Happiness” or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | Operationalizing #AI >> Decisionmaking often comes down to resolving the conflict in our minds between the “impulsive, automatic, intuitive” and the “thoughtful, deliberate, calculating” systems of thinking. ————— Brilliant book "Thinking, Fast and Slow": | Persuasion Reading List. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | The book ?Thinking, Fast and Slow? by Daniel Kahneman a psychologist and the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics has become essential reading in many baseball front offices and among coaching staffs. | Thinking Fast and Slow Book review A Noble Prize winner giving away his secrets in a single book! An INCREDIBLE MUST BUY: Loaded with insights, stories, case studies Stunning revelations of our mind. C pics 4 detailed book review & more here

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2 of my favourite books @simonsinek great reminders #books | @AlbertBridgeCap Thinking Fast & Slow is one of my favorite books (unsurprisingly). | @Bradley_James2 Misbehaving Thinking Fast and Slow. Undoing Project. | @Qwyntessence A tough read but an awesome book. Their biography is also a great read. | @devspeed @RachelAppel Great book! | @echo_chamberz Read the book, it's great. PDFs are online | @geriwithetc @TwinsKevin @mayawiley @BeschlossDC @AliVelshi @kaitlancollins @scribe827 @ChrisCuomo I am an absolute maniac on the topic of cognitive biases of evey flavor. So much fun. (The ?bible? is Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman?s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.) | @huishhodl That's an incredible book! We have a summary guide of the book here if it's helpful to you. | @invinciblesaad I enjoyed that book, too. Fascinating. | @jasonzweigwsj is right Superforecasting is most important book since Thinking, Fast & Slow @ptetlock @dgardner | @periodicvideos can't recommend 'Thinking Fast and Slow' highly enough. I'm reading 'David and Goliath' now, which has its moments | @ranvijay81 @KiritManral One of the best books | @warwickmansell you should read Daniel Kahneman's book (Thinking Fast and Slow) you'd enjoy it I think. | A few weeks ago, @vulture asked me to describe 10 books that have impacted me along the way. List just out: Chinua Achebe, Dorothy Day, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ralph Ellison, Bernard Malamud, Doris Kearns Goodwin, & more: | Covers all three phases of the author's career: his early days working oncognitive bias, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness. | Fun list of 20 cognitive biases screwing up our decisions. The best book on this topic I ever read was of course Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, fast and slow". It's one of the few books I would label as essential reading for nearly everyone. Full list here: | I love surprising scientific findings, as well as information about how our brains work. This is a treasure trove of both. Turns out, our brains are constantly misleading us. It’s not clear that learning how that’s the case reduces the chances of it happening, but it’s fascinating theless. | I started reading Thinking, Fast and Slow and I became increasingly convinced of my own fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life. | If you liked ?Predictably Irrational? or ?Stumbling on Happiness? or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | If you liked “Predictably Irrational” or “Stumbling on Happiness” or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | Operationalizing #AI >> Decisionmaking often comes down to resolving the conflict in our minds between the “impulsive, automatic, intuitive” and the “thoughtful, deliberate, calculating” systems of thinking. ————— Brilliant book "Thinking, Fast and Slow": | Persuasion Reading List. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | The book ?Thinking, Fast and Slow? by Daniel Kahneman a psychologist and the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics has become essential reading in many baseball front offices and among coaching staffs. | Thinking Fast and Slow Book review A Noble Prize winner giving away his secrets in a single book! An INCREDIBLE MUST BUY: Loaded with insights, stories, case studies Stunning revelations of our mind. C pics 4 detailed book review & more here

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Sam Altman

CEO of OpenAI

2 of my favourite books @simonsinek great reminders #books | @AlbertBridgeCap Thinking Fast & Slow is one of my favorite books (unsurprisingly). | @Bradley_James2 Misbehaving Thinking Fast and Slow. Undoing Project. | @Qwyntessence A tough read but an awesome book. Their biography is also a great read. | @devspeed @RachelAppel Great book! | @echo_chamberz Read the book, it's great. PDFs are online | @geriwithetc @TwinsKevin @mayawiley @BeschlossDC @AliVelshi @kaitlancollins @scribe827 @ChrisCuomo I am an absolute maniac on the topic of cognitive biases of evey flavor. So much fun. (The ?bible? is Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman?s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.) | @huishhodl That's an incredible book! We have a summary guide of the book here if it's helpful to you. | @invinciblesaad I enjoyed that book, too. Fascinating. | @jasonzweigwsj is right Superforecasting is most important book since Thinking, Fast & Slow @ptetlock @dgardner | @periodicvideos can't recommend 'Thinking Fast and Slow' highly enough. I'm reading 'David and Goliath' now, which has its moments | @ranvijay81 @KiritManral One of the best books | @warwickmansell you should read Daniel Kahneman's book (Thinking Fast and Slow) you'd enjoy it I think. | A few weeks ago, @vulture asked me to describe 10 books that have impacted me along the way. List just out: Chinua Achebe, Dorothy Day, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ralph Ellison, Bernard Malamud, Doris Kearns Goodwin, & more: | Covers all three phases of the author's career: his early days working oncognitive bias, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness. | Fun list of 20 cognitive biases screwing up our decisions. The best book on this topic I ever read was of course Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, fast and slow". It's one of the few books I would label as essential reading for nearly everyone. Full list here: | I love surprising scientific findings, as well as information about how our brains work. This is a treasure trove of both. Turns out, our brains are constantly misleading us. It’s not clear that learning how that’s the case reduces the chances of it happening, but it’s fascinating theless. | I started reading Thinking, Fast and Slow and I became increasingly convinced of my own fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life. | If you liked ?Predictably Irrational? or ?Stumbling on Happiness? or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | If you liked “Predictably Irrational” or “Stumbling on Happiness” or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | Operationalizing #AI >> Decisionmaking often comes down to resolving the conflict in our minds between the “impulsive, automatic, intuitive” and the “thoughtful, deliberate, calculating” systems of thinking. ————— Brilliant book "Thinking, Fast and Slow": | Persuasion Reading List. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | The book ?Thinking, Fast and Slow? by Daniel Kahneman a psychologist and the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics has become essential reading in many baseball front offices and among coaching staffs. | Thinking Fast and Slow Book review A Noble Prize winner giving away his secrets in a single book! An INCREDIBLE MUST BUY: Loaded with insights, stories, case studies Stunning revelations of our mind. C pics 4 detailed book review & more here

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2 of my favourite books @simonsinek great reminders #books | @AlbertBridgeCap Thinking Fast & Slow is one of my favorite books (unsurprisingly). | @Bradley_James2 Misbehaving Thinking Fast and Slow. Undoing Project. | @Qwyntessence A tough read but an awesome book. Their biography is also a great read. | @devspeed @RachelAppel Great book! | @echo_chamberz Read the book, it's great. PDFs are online | @geriwithetc @TwinsKevin @mayawiley @BeschlossDC @AliVelshi @kaitlancollins @scribe827 @ChrisCuomo I am an absolute maniac on the topic of cognitive biases of evey flavor. So much fun. (The ?bible? is Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman?s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.) | @huishhodl That's an incredible book! We have a summary guide of the book here if it's helpful to you. | @invinciblesaad I enjoyed that book, too. Fascinating. | @jasonzweigwsj is right Superforecasting is most important book since Thinking, Fast & Slow @ptetlock @dgardner | @periodicvideos can't recommend 'Thinking Fast and Slow' highly enough. I'm reading 'David and Goliath' now, which has its moments | @ranvijay81 @KiritManral One of the best books | @warwickmansell you should read Daniel Kahneman's book (Thinking Fast and Slow) you'd enjoy it I think. | A few weeks ago, @vulture asked me to describe 10 books that have impacted me along the way. List just out: Chinua Achebe, Dorothy Day, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ralph Ellison, Bernard Malamud, Doris Kearns Goodwin, & more: | Covers all three phases of the author's career: his early days working oncognitive bias, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness. | Fun list of 20 cognitive biases screwing up our decisions. The best book on this topic I ever read was of course Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, fast and slow". It's one of the few books I would label as essential reading for nearly everyone. Full list here: | I love surprising scientific findings, as well as information about how our brains work. This is a treasure trove of both. Turns out, our brains are constantly misleading us. It’s not clear that learning how that’s the case reduces the chances of it happening, but it’s fascinating theless. | I started reading Thinking, Fast and Slow and I became increasingly convinced of my own fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life. | If you liked ?Predictably Irrational? or ?Stumbling on Happiness? or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | If you liked “Predictably Irrational” or “Stumbling on Happiness” or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | Operationalizing #AI >> Decisionmaking often comes down to resolving the conflict in our minds between the “impulsive, automatic, intuitive” and the “thoughtful, deliberate, calculating” systems of thinking. ————— Brilliant book "Thinking, Fast and Slow": | Persuasion Reading List. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | The book ?Thinking, Fast and Slow? by Daniel Kahneman a psychologist and the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics has become essential reading in many baseball front offices and among coaching staffs. | Thinking Fast and Slow Book review A Noble Prize winner giving away his secrets in a single book! An INCREDIBLE MUST BUY: Loaded with insights, stories, case studies Stunning revelations of our mind. C pics 4 detailed book review & more here

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2 of my favourite books @simonsinek great reminders #books | @AlbertBridgeCap Thinking Fast & Slow is one of my favorite books (unsurprisingly). | @Bradley_James2 Misbehaving Thinking Fast and Slow. Undoing Project. | @Qwyntessence A tough read but an awesome book. Their biography is also a great read. | @devspeed @RachelAppel Great book! | @echo_chamberz Read the book, it's great. PDFs are online | @geriwithetc @TwinsKevin @mayawiley @BeschlossDC @AliVelshi @kaitlancollins @scribe827 @ChrisCuomo I am an absolute maniac on the topic of cognitive biases of evey flavor. So much fun. (The ?bible? is Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman?s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.) | @huishhodl That's an incredible book! We have a summary guide of the book here if it's helpful to you. | @invinciblesaad I enjoyed that book, too. Fascinating. | @jasonzweigwsj is right Superforecasting is most important book since Thinking, Fast & Slow @ptetlock @dgardner | @periodicvideos can't recommend 'Thinking Fast and Slow' highly enough. I'm reading 'David and Goliath' now, which has its moments | @ranvijay81 @KiritManral One of the best books | @warwickmansell you should read Daniel Kahneman's book (Thinking Fast and Slow) you'd enjoy it I think. | A few weeks ago, @vulture asked me to describe 10 books that have impacted me along the way. List just out: Chinua Achebe, Dorothy Day, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ralph Ellison, Bernard Malamud, Doris Kearns Goodwin, & more: | Covers all three phases of the author's career: his early days working oncognitive bias, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness. | Fun list of 20 cognitive biases screwing up our decisions. The best book on this topic I ever read was of course Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, fast and slow". It's one of the few books I would label as essential reading for nearly everyone. Full list here: | I love surprising scientific findings, as well as information about how our brains work. This is a treasure trove of both. Turns out, our brains are constantly misleading us. It’s not clear that learning how that’s the case reduces the chances of it happening, but it’s fascinating theless. | I started reading Thinking, Fast and Slow and I became increasingly convinced of my own fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life. | If you liked ?Predictably Irrational? or ?Stumbling on Happiness? or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | If you liked “Predictably Irrational” or “Stumbling on Happiness” or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | Operationalizing #AI >> Decisionmaking often comes down to resolving the conflict in our minds between the “impulsive, automatic, intuitive” and the “thoughtful, deliberate, calculating” systems of thinking. ————— Brilliant book "Thinking, Fast and Slow": | Persuasion Reading List. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | The book ?Thinking, Fast and Slow? by Daniel Kahneman a psychologist and the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics has become essential reading in many baseball front offices and among coaching staffs. | Thinking Fast and Slow Book review A Noble Prize winner giving away his secrets in a single book! An INCREDIBLE MUST BUY: Loaded with insights, stories, case studies Stunning revelations of our mind. C pics 4 detailed book review & more here

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Difficulty:hard
Length:Short(40 pages)
Themes:intuition vs deliberationcognitive ease vs skeptical scrutiny

Should I read this?

This book walks you through two mental systems—one fast and intuitive, the other slow and analytical—using a cascade of clever experiments that reveal how easily we're fooled. The value lies in naming and demonstrating dozens of cognitive biases that affect decisions from shopping to investing. it reads as dense, rich, and often fascinating, but the parade of similar studies can feel repetitive, and the lack of practical shortcuts may frustrate readers wanting quick fixes. Some later research has questioned a few findings, which can gnaw at your trust as you go.

Read this if...

  • A product manager sifting through A/B test results who needs to explain why users keep choosing the shiny but suboptimal option.
  • A public policy advisor designing choice architecture to gently steer citizens toward better health or financial decisions.
  • A curious lifelong learner who enjoys psychology, has time to digest detailed experiments, and wants to uncover their own cognitive blind spots.

Skip this if...

  • You seek a self-help book with exercises or step-by-step techniques; this one offers insight, not instruction.
  • You prefer stories or anecdotes over methodical research; the book builds its case through study after study, which may feel like drudgery.
  • You’ll likely put it down when the chapter on overconfidence drags into yet another variation of the same illusion with no new twist.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Daniel Kahneman explains: System One is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System Two is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Examining how both systems function within the mind, Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities as well as the biases of fast thinking and the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and our choices. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, he shows where we can trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking, contrasting the two-system view of the mind with the standard model of the rational economic agent.…

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Reading Specifications

Difficulty:hard

Length:40 pages (Short)

Themes:
intuition vs deliberationcognitive ease vs skeptical scrutinyoverconfidence vs calibrated uncertainty

Audience Fit

Recommended for:
  • A product manager sifting through A/B test results who needs to explain why users keep choosing the shiny but suboptimal option.
  • A public policy advisor designing choice architecture to gently steer citizens toward better health or financial decisions.
  • A curious lifelong learner who enjoys psychology, has time to digest detailed experiments, and wants to uncover their own cognitive blind spots.
Not ideal if you want:
  • You seek a self-help book with exercises or step-by-step techniques; this one offers insight, not instruction.
  • You prefer stories or anecdotes over methodical research; the book builds its case through study after study, which may feel like drudgery.
  • You’ll likely put it down when the chapter on overconfidence drags into yet another variation of the same illusion with no new twist.

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Key themes

intuition vs deliberationcognitive ease vs skeptical scrutinyoverconfidence vs calibrated uncertaintyloss aversion vs rational choicewhat you see vs all there is

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Recommended by 62 sources and appears in Clear Thinking, Self Discovery, and Behavioral Psychology.

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2 of my favourite books @simonsinek great reminders #books | @AlbertBridgeCap Thinking Fast & Slow is one of my favorite books (unsurprisingly). | @Bradley_James2 Misbehaving Thinking Fast and Slow. Undoing Project. | @Qwyntessence A tough read but an awesome book. Their biography is also a great read. | @devspeed @RachelAppel Great book! | @echo_chamberz Read the book, it's great. PDFs are online | @geriwithetc @TwinsKevin @mayawiley @BeschlossDC @AliVelshi @kaitlancollins @scribe827 @ChrisCuomo I am an absolute maniac on the topic of cognitive biases of evey flavor. So much fun. (The ?bible? is Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman?s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.) | @huishhodl That's an incredible book! We have a summary guide of the book here if it's helpful to you. | @invinciblesaad I enjoyed that book, too. Fascinating. | @jasonzweigwsj is right Superforecasting is most important book since Thinking, Fast & Slow @ptetlock @dgardner | @periodicvideos can't recommend 'Thinking Fast and Slow' highly enough. I'm reading 'David and Goliath' now, which has its moments | @ranvijay81 @KiritManral One of the best books | @warwickmansell you should read Daniel Kahneman's book (Thinking Fast and Slow) you'd enjoy it I think. | A few weeks ago, @vulture asked me to describe 10 books that have impacted me along the way. List just out: Chinua Achebe, Dorothy Day, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ralph Ellison, Bernard Malamud, Doris Kearns Goodwin, & more: | Covers all three phases of the author's career: his early days working oncognitive bias, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness. | Fun list of 20 cognitive biases screwing up our decisions. The best book on this topic I ever read was of course Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, fast and slow". It's one of the few books I would label as essential reading for nearly everyone. Full list here: | I love surprising scientific findings, as well as information about how our brains work. This is a treasure trove of both. Turns out, our brains are constantly misleading us. It’s not clear that learning how that’s the case reduces the chances of it happening, but it’s fascinating theless. | I started reading Thinking, Fast and Slow and I became increasingly convinced of my own fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life. | If you liked ?Predictably Irrational? or ?Stumbling on Happiness? or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | If you liked “Predictably Irrational” or “Stumbling on Happiness” or any of those poppsychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it. | Operationalizing #AI >> Decisionmaking often comes down to resolving the conflict in our minds between the “impulsive, automatic, intuitive” and the “thoughtful, deliberate, calculating” systems of thinking. ————— Brilliant book "Thinking, Fast and Slow": | Persuasion Reading List. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | The book ?Thinking, Fast and Slow? by Daniel Kahneman a psychologist and the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics has become essential reading in many baseball front offices and among coaching staffs. | Thinking Fast and Slow Book review A Noble Prize winner giving away his secrets in a single book! An INCREDIBLE MUST BUY: Loaded with insights, stories, case studies Stunning revelations of our mind. C pics 4 detailed book review & more here
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