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.
2Years Applied
Still catching myself in System 1 thinking despite everything I noted
Biases I Actually Caught Myself Using
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
Reading Thinking Fast and Slow
Usefulness
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This is not a pop psychology book. It rewards slow reading. One chapter a day is a better pace than most readers give it.