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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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01

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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02

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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