Book 67: Thinking Fast and Slow

By Daniel Kahneman

I miss Kahneman’s thinking. I am not certain I miss his writing. A few too many years in academia. Clearly a brilliant behavioral psychiatrist, and Nobel Prize winning economist. This book describes at length the different thinking systems in the brain and how they impact decision making. What is the purpose of quick, instinctive responses? When can they be useful? And when could we dramatically improve results by slowing down and using logic and reason to find the counterintuitive but correct choice.