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Drawing on The Structure of Scientific Revolutions · Thinking, Fast and Slow
Persistence and pivoting are both virtues, which makes the decision genuinely hard. Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions gives you the diagnostic — crisis looks like multiplying patches — and Kahneman explains why you'll see it later than you should.
Drawing on Seeing Like a State · The Wisdom of Crowds
From Soviet collectivization to your company's grand replatforming, top-down plans fail in the same way: they replace working local knowledge with a tidy abstraction, then mistake the abstraction for reality. Seeing Like a State is the autopsy manual.
Drawing on The Wisdom of Crowds · Thinking, Fast and Slow
Groups of intelligent people routinely underperform their dumbest member's private judgment. The Wisdom of Crowds explains the broken machinery; Thinking, Fast and Slow explains the biases it amplifies — and both point to the same fixes.
Rob Fitzpatrick · 2013
How to talk to customers and learn the truth when everyone is lying to you — including your mom.
Daniel Kahneman · 2011
A map of the two systems that run your mind — and the predictable ways the fast one fools you.
James Surowiecki · 2004
Why large groups of ordinary people outguess experts — and the exact conditions under which they stop.
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