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The Beginning of Infinity: expanded my understanding of what science is, exposed me to Popper's ideas of conjecture and refutation. Many profound concepts which
by crabmusket 4y ago
The Beginning of Infinity: expanded my understanding of what science is, exposed me to Popper's ideas of conjecture and refutation. Many profound concepts which I think about regularly.
Thinking, Fast and Slow: introspection about how the mind may work, common biases and traps. I often think about the fast/slow system divide and notice when I just want to coast along doing fast thinking.
The Scout Mindset: very neatly describes a way of being which I rarely attain, but aspire to.
- onlyrealcuzzo 4y agoCame here to say Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman and The Black Swan by Taleb. I don't know if it's strictly applicable to OP's question - but these books shaped how I see the world more than anything in life - and I think my view is way more accurate and I'm infinitely happier as a result. In these conditions, I think problem solving becomes a lot easier...
- 0xBDB 4y agoThinking, Fast and Slow is still worth it, but anyone thinking of reading it should probably be aware that it's taken a pretty hard hit in the psychology replication crisis. A lot (the majority, at least at one point) of its cited studies have failed to replicate. They may still be true (I think Kahneman has said that he believes most of them will bear out eventually) but worst case there may be entire chapters that are basically no good. https://www.jasoncollins.blog/posts/re-reading-kahnemans-thinking-fast-and-slow https://www.jasoncollins.blog/posts/re-reading-kahnemans-thi...