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Jerome Groopman’s How Doctors Think attempts to shed light on the cognitive processes of doctors as they go about the business of diagnosing and treating patients. Groopman’s thesis is that, contra to what is taught in medical schools, the very best doctors do not follow the algorithmic, Bayesian diagnostic process. Algorithmic analyses is often adequate [...]
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…you are less likely to achieve them: At first it seems silly, but I’ve definitely experienced this. You get a rush from people saying how interesting or exciting an idea is–”wow, that’s really cool, can’t wait to see/read/hear it!”–and that feedback does provide instant pleasure. There is definitely a danger of having that initial rush substitute [...]
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This weekend’s FT had a great article summarizing the findings of happiness research: Many of us struggle to find real happiness. Why is that? Studies in psychology suggest that part of the reason is that most of us are very bad at predicting how we’ll react when faced with many of life’s experiences. Consequently, we [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
