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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
The Nobel laureate's tour of the two systems of thought: fast intuition and slow reasoning, the heuristics and biases that trip us, prospect theory and loss aversion, framing, overconfidence and the planning fallacy, and the two selves, plus which chapters didn't replicate.
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Key idea
Prereqs: Cognitive biases (Psychology); Probability rules. Next: Meditations. Book: Daniel Kahneman, *Thinking, Fast and Slow* (2011); Nobel 2002, for work largely with Amos Tversky (d. 1996).Next: 1. Two systems