Content tagged with “critical-thinking” under “My Library”

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The Art of Thinking Clearly
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
May 29, 2016
Words
370

“this book has 99 (!) chapters. that seems like a lot, but they’re quite short – some just 2-3 pages. each chapter discusses a cognitive fallacy or bias of some kind. things like: Survivor bias Confirmation bias Feature positive preference These are mental potholes that we fall prey to again and…”

Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
August 31, 2020
Words
61

“A good examination of why people spit BS, and how to debunk it. It drifts into a standard list of cognitive fallacies and statistical mistakes somewhere in the middle. But still, it’s generally very good. The author makes a point that some people’s identity hinges on their BS (like any member of…”

The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
September 22, 2022
Words
264

“This is a polemic against misinformation. It was written post-Trump, and Trump informs and motivates a lot of it. The author is retaliating against what he sees as the basic corruption of truth. We’ve arrived at a point in society where we can simply deny any truth that we don’t like and limit…”

The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
March 14, 2014
Words
180

“I abandoned this book, but not by choice – truth is, I lost it about 2/3s of the way through (it’s a physically small book, and thus easy to lose). The book was…okay. True to the tag line, it presents a series of thought models with which to evaluate decisions. Some I had heard of (Pareto, SWOT,…”

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
January 13, 2023
Words
146

“This is a book about how we don’t like reality anymore. We like the illusion of reality. As a society, we’re addicted to farce. It’s almost hilarious that this was written in 2009. If only the author had seen what was coming. He talks about ‘the illusion of literacy,’ by contrasting it against…”

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 4, 2023
Words
154

“This is a…cute, book. That’s the only way I can really characterize it. It’s a small book. Every two-page spread represents one or more logical fallacies. The left page is a description, and the right page is a drawing meant to illustrate the fallacy. The drawings are of anthropomorphized animals….”

The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
October 16, 2021
Words
213

“A book about how smart people are sometimes very stupid. Sometimes, we can be so smart and analytical that we outsmart ourselves, lose sight of the forest for the trees, and come full-circle back to stupid. One example is Arthur Conan-Doyle, the nominally brilliant author of Sherlock Holmes. He was…”

The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
May 23, 2023
Words
407

“This is literally a textbook – the author says much at the beginning. He’s a professor at the University of Michigan, and he writes about how a friend asked him to resurrect a course on statistical modeling. That course became this book. Models are ways of thinking and analyzing a subject. It’s a…”

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 22, 2015
Words
147

“I enjoyed this book, but understand that it’s not a simple book of techniques or direction. The author goes deep into the human mind – the swear, the first chapter is a lesson in neurological anatomy. You’ll read more about the human brain than you probably care to know. The book is interesting,…”

The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
November 1, 2023
Words
524

“The author of this book is very angry about misconceptions that people have and the fact that they continue to have them. He comes down pretty squarely on the political Right, but he never actually articulates a political position. He’s furious about ‘political correctness.’ He’s also not a fan of…”

The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
October 4, 2023
Words
183

“This book caused quite a stir when it was published in 1994. This is the quote that upset a lot of people: The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there isn’t one. The author was basically saying that evangelical Christians have stopped thinking rationally about anything. Unfortunately, it was…”

The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
June 28, 2022
Words
276

“At first, I didn’t like this book, but it won me over in the end. At its heart, it’s about confirmation bias – how we defend our positions by acknowledge evidence in favor of them and ignoring or downplaying evidence against them. Galef calls this ‘the soldier mindset,’ because we’re always…”

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
August 27, 2019
Words
44

“ Neat book full of mental models from all domains. It’s well-written, and will expose you to a lot of things you sort of now, but haven’t quite articulated. The only downside is that it doesn’t go too deep, but that’s not really the intention. ”

The Thinker’s Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
June 16, 2018
Words
186

“This book should have been called, ‘How to Make Decisions,’ as this is basically what it is – a series of frameworks for making decisions. The first chapter has some business fiction – a company is arguing about whether or not to purchase a new delivery truck. I normally hate business fiction, and…”