12 Favorite books of Michael Mauboussin:
1. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
This book explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these principles ethically in business and everyday situations.
1. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
This book explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these principles ethically in business and everyday situations.
2. Thinking Fast and Slow
This book takes you on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.
This book takes you on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.
3. How the mind works
How the Mind Works synthesizes the most satisfying explanations of our mental life from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and other fields to explain what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh...
How the Mind Works synthesizes the most satisfying explanations of our mental life from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and other fields to explain what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh...
4. Against the Gods
This book talks about how our perception of risk, especially with respect to decisions with financial outcomes, advanced (rather slowly) from ancient times to the present.
This book talks about how our perception of risk, especially with respect to decisions with financial outcomes, advanced (rather slowly) from ancient times to the present.
5. The Blind Watchmaker
Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design is a 1986 book by Richard Dawkins, in which the author presents an explanation of, and argument for, the theory of evolution by means of natural selection.
Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design is a 1986 book by Richard Dawkins, in which the author presents an explanation of, and argument for, the theory of evolution by means of natural selection.
6. Darwin's dangerous idea: evolution and the meanings of life
In this book, Darwin looks at some of the repercussions of Darwinian theory.
In this book, Darwin looks at some of the repercussions of Darwinian theory.
7. The Righteous Mind
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion is a 2012 social psychology book by Jonathan Haidt, in which the author describes human morality as it relates to politics and religion.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion is a 2012 social psychology book by Jonathan Haidt, in which the author describes human morality as it relates to politics and religion.
8. Moneyball
This book tells the story of how the Oakland Athletics, a Major League Baseball team, used advanced statistical analysis and data-driven decision-making to build a competitive team on a limited budget.
This book tells the story of how the Oakland Athletics, a Major League Baseball team, used advanced statistical analysis and data-driven decision-making to build a competitive team on a limited budget.
9. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
This book explores the field of complexity science, which is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding complex systems in various fields such as physics, biology, economics, and sociology.
This book explores the field of complexity science, which is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding complex systems in various fields such as physics, biology, economics, and sociology.
10. The Halo Effect
People tend to overemphasize the role of successful companies' strategies while downplaying the influence of external factors, luck, and the broader context in which these companies operate.
People tend to overemphasize the role of successful companies' strategies while downplaying the influence of external factors, luck, and the broader context in which these companies operate.
11. Guns, Germs and Steel
Guns, Germs, and Steel is about differences of human societies between the different continents over the last 11,000 years.
Guns, Germs, and Steel is about differences of human societies between the different continents over the last 11,000 years.
12. Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Sync explores intriguing connections among neurobiology, biochemistry, superconductivity, and network theory, hinting at a new paradigm rooted in self-organization, chaos, and complexity.
Sync explores intriguing connections among neurobiology, biochemistry, superconductivity, and network theory, hinting at a new paradigm rooted in self-organization, chaos, and complexity.
That's it for today.
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