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# Thinking Fast and Slow: My Notes Two Years On

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- By [KaiRenner](https://slatesource.com/u/KaiRenner)
- Social Sciences & Psychology
- Created on Apr 26, 2026

## 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.

**2** Years Applied

NOW

Still catching myself in System 1 thinking despite everything I noted

Updated Apr 2026

Biases I Actually Caught Myself Using

60%

Availability heuristic when estimating how often bad things happen

Anchoring when evaluating a salary negotiation

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·4 Sections

# Reading Thinking Fast and Slow

Usefulness

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Section

"Immediately useful and never left my thinking

Kahneman books read in full

1/3

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

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