A fascinating book, a little dryly written, but full of cool anecdotes that explain the concepts.
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Chris Gilmour rated How to Make the World Add Up: 5 stars
Chris Gilmour rated Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment: 5 stars
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein
Defines, describes and mitigates the effects noise on errors in decision making, and on judgments in particular.
Chris Gilmour finished reading Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman
Defines, describes and mitigates the effects noise on errors in decision making, and on judgments …
Chris Gilmour finished reading A Shetland anthology
Comprehensively covers Shetlandic poetry, of both the vernacular Scots variety and in English.
Chris Gilmour finished reading Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction is a book by Philip E. Tetlock and …
Cracking read, changed the way I consider my own forecasts and predictions about the world.
Chris Gilmour started reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
From the critically acclaimed author of Fooled by Randomness, a book about the impact of improbable events on every aspect …
Chris Gilmour reviewed The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
From the critically acclaimed author of Fooled by Randomness, a book about the impact of …
Thought it might be my cup of tea, but it isn't
3 stars
I think I just don't like the narrative style. There's interesting things said, great concepts, but the tone, the stories, the framing with anecdotes just makes it a bit of a drag to read. I was on a pop-science reading trip, rattling through half a dozen books in a month until I crashed to a halt with Black Swan and now every time I look at it, I reach for some Scots poetry instead. This book hasn't turned me off pop-science, its just making it hard to go on.