:INFO
What Survives Two Years of Living With the Biases
Daniel Kahneman's book is the most annotated volume I own. I finished it in 2023 and immediately felt sharper. The real question was whether any of it would survive contact with daily life. In 2025 I went back through my reading notes and marked every concept I had actually encountered in the real world. The score was humbling and instructive in roughly equal measure.


:COUNTER.half
2 Years Applied
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:NOW.half
Still catching myself in System 1 thinking despite everything I noted

:CHECKLIST
Biases I Actually Caught Myself Using
[x] Availability heuristic when estimating how often bad things happen
[x] Anchoring when evaluating a salary negotiation
[x] Loss aversion during a decision about leaving a job I was unhappy in
[ ] Sunk cost fallacy in a project I kept funding past its useful point
[ ] Planning fallacy in nearly every project estimate I have made since

:JOURNEY
Reading Thinking Fast and Slow
5 Core framework
4 Dense but concrete
4 News changer
3 Slow absorb

:GOAL [target:3, current:1]
Kahneman books read in full

:NOTE
This is not a pop psychology book. It rewards slow reading. One chapter a day is a better pace than most readers give it.


:POLL
Did you finish Thinking Fast and Slow on your first attempt?
Yes without any interruption
I took a break in the middle and came back
I never actually finished it
I read a summary version instead