Big Ideas About How Humans Actually Think
The user manual nobody gave you. These books map the systematic ways human judgment goes wrong - and occasionally right - from cognitive biases to persuasion to the deep history of why our minds work this way at all.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
The map of the territory: two systems, dozens of biases, and a Nobel behind the claims.
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Predictably Irrational
The experiments are the star: anchoring, free, and ownership, each demonstrated rather than asserted.
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Sapiens
The widest lens: shared fictions - money, nations, companies - as the technology that runs civilization.
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The Laws of Human Nature
The dark-arts companion: envy, narcissism, and conformity treated as forces to master, not deny.
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Never Split the Difference
Psychology under pressure: tactical empathy from actual hostage negotiations, immediately usable.
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