Thinking, Fast and Slow

“List of books Bill Gates read in 2012.

“Do you want to understand how humans think? Read this book. It is one of the best starting points for exploring the tangled web of the human mind.

“This book was so entertaining and useful.

“Examples: Thinking Fast and Slow, How Animals Work, On the Origin of Species, Consciousness Explained

“This Nobel Prize-winning book delves into the two systems that drive our thinking: the fast, intuitive System 1 and the slower, more deliberate System 2. Understanding how these systems work can help you make better decisions and avoid cognitive biases.

“Cognitive biases in business

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“Insights into human decision-making and psychology.

“Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and

“I could not bring myself to finish this book. The book is filled with shady experiments on undergraduates and psychology grad students and wild extrapolations of the associated results. I find it exceedingly difficult to take many of the conclusions seriously. I can't read into them. I can't trust them. I can't base my decisions on them and I resist incorporating them into my world view with anything more than 0.01 weight. In fact, several of the experiments that this book mentions were also found to be not reproducible by a recent meta-study on reproducibility in psychology studies. Here's a characteristic example of me reading the book. The author says: "Consider the word EAT. Now fill in the blank in the following: SO_P. You were much more likely to fill in the blank with a U to make SOUP than with an A to make soap! How amazing. We call this phenomenon priming, system 1, something something". In fact, no, SOAP came to my mind immediately. All I could think about when I read this bo

“Captivating dive into human decision making, marred by inclusion of several/many? psychology studies that fail to replicate. Will stand as a cautionary tale?

“I started reading [this book] and I became increasingly convinced of my own fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life.