Editors Reads

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Decision Making

18 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.

18 posts

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Where to Start with Annie Duke: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Annie Duke — how to approach Thinking in Bets, her essential book on decision-making under uncertainty. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Barry Schwartz: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Barry Schwartz — how to approach The Paradox of Choice, his essential book on how too much choice makes us worse off. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Brian Christian: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Brian Christian — how to approach Algorithms to Live By, his essential application of computer science to human decision-making. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Charlie Munger: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Charlie Munger — how to approach Poor Charlie's Almanack, his essential collection of speeches and mental models. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Chip Heath: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Chip Heath — how to approach Decisive, his essential guide to better decision-making. A complete reading guide to Chip and Dan Heath's work.

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Where to Start with Chris Voss: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Chris Voss — how to approach Never Split the Difference, his essential book on FBI hostage negotiation techniques. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Dan Ariely: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Dan Ariely — whether to begin with Predictably Irrational or The Upside of Irrationality. A complete reading guide to the behavioural economist.

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Where to Start with Mel Robbins: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Mel Robbins — whether to begin with The 5 Second Rule or The Let Them Theory. A complete reading guide to the motivational author and speaker.

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Where to Start with Philip Tetlock: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Philip Tetlock — how to approach Superforecasting, his account of the ordinary people who consistently outperform intelligence analysts at prediction. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Ray Dalio: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Ray Dalio — how to approach Principles, his essential guide to decision-making and radical transparency. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Richard Thaler: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Richard Thaler — how to approach Misbehaving, his inside account of how behavioral economics upended the rational-actor model that defines classical economics. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Shane Parrish: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Shane Parrish — how to approach Clear Thinking, his synthesis of fifteen years of Farnam Street content into a practical framework for overcoming the defaults that undermine judgment. A complete reading guide.

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Best Behavioral Economics Books: Essential Reading

The best behavioral economics books — from Thinking, Fast and Slow and Predictably Irrational to Nudge and Misbehaving. Essential reading on decision-making.

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Best Books About Decision-Making: Essential Reads on Thinking and Judgment

The best books about decision-making — from Thinking, Fast and Slow and Superforecasting to Nudge and The Righteous Mind. Essential reads on judgment and reason.

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Best Books About Negotiation and Influence: Essential Reading

The best books about negotiation and influence — from Never Split the Difference and Thinking Fast and Slow to The 48 Laws of Power and Poor Charlie's Almanack.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow vs Blink: Two Books on Intuition That Reach Opposite Conclusions

Kahneman and Gladwell both study how the mind makes decisions — and arrive at almost opposite conclusions. A close comparison of Thinking, Fast and Slow and Blink.

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Where to Start with Daniel Kahneman: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Daniel Kahneman — whether to begin with Thinking, Fast and Slow or Noise. A complete reading guide to the Nobel Prize-winning behavioural economist.

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Books Like Thinking, Fast and Slow: Cognitive Science, Bias, and How We Actually Make Decisions

Daniel Kahneman's account of System 1 (fast, intuitive, emotional) and System 2 (slow, deliberative, rational) thinking — and the ways System 1 hijacks decisions we believe are rational — is the most influential popular psychology book of the last two decades. These books share its revelatory quality and its evidence-based challenge to our self-image as rational beings.

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