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Decision Making
Books about judgment, choices, cognitive bias, timing, and clearer thinking.
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Collection index
A shelf with an argument.
Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.
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Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths · 2016
Algorithms to Live By
A good algorithm does not make life mechanical. It gives judgment a sharper edge and anxiety a smaller job.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012
Antifragile
Fragility hides in systems that need the world to stay gentle; strength begins when disorder starts paying rent.
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Eric Barker · 2017
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
The right tree is the place where your odd branch gets sunlight.
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Shane Parrish · 2023
Clear Thinking
Clear thinking is not a personality trait. It is an environment you build before pressure starts making decisions for you.
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Chip Heath, Dan Heath · 2013
Decisive
A better decision is rarely the loudest option. It is the one that survives alternatives, evidence, distance, and a plan for being wrong.
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Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund · 2018
Factfulness
The goal is not to feel hopeful. It is to become harder to fool.
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Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein · 2008
Nudge
A good nudge does not win by force. It wins by arranging the path so your better intention is the easiest one to keep.
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Chip Heath, Dan Heath · 2010
Switch
For anything to change, someone has to start acting differently.
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Rolf Dobelli · 2011
The Art of Thinking Clearly
Clear thinking is not the absence of bias. It is the habit of catching your favorite mistake before it spends your future.
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Atul Gawande · 2009
The Checklist Manifesto
The checklist is not about making experts less expert. It is about making expertise reliable when the room gets loud.
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Seth Godin · 2007
The Dip
Quit the wrong things early so you have the strength to push through the right dip.
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Robert Greene · 2018
The Laws of Human Nature
Mastery of human nature begins the moment you stop exempting yourself from it.
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Daniel H. Pink · 2022
The Power of Regret
Regret is not a command to live in the past. It is a dispatch from the past asking you to live more deliberately now.
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Daniel H. Pink · 2018
When
Timing is not the art of squeezing more into the day. It is the art of giving the right moment the right job.
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