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It was a good wrap up on evolutionary aspects of human and other animals' sexuality. We are the odd ones among mammals and almost all animals when it comes to sexual traits, from the way children are born and cared for to burden of responsibility, bonding and marriage patterns and female menopause!
For quick take away: men can lactate and share the chore of feeding the children.

Concrete advice and tangible examples on how to make better decisions. This book offers a practical view for day to day life on top of findings of behavioral-economics giants like Kahneman.

This was cool, not any deeper than books on cognitive biases and error (e.g Thinking Fast & Slow), but full of good, tangible examples.
In essence knowing you are biased isn't often sufficient, you need to counter it per case, and this book covers some well known examples of such biases and counter measures.

It was good reading a deep dive into one of my favorite TV shows, had to re-watch some repeatedly mentioned episodes.

This dug much deeper in notions of diversity, crowd sourcing, prediction markets and team problem solving. Loved it.

Meh!

The fable was almost sleep inducing, good for late night reads.
The conclusion was filled with narrow takes on reality of workplace and positive anecdotes that were stretched beyond reach.

So, as I said, meh :)

Could have been a ~10 page essay.

AKA: bullshit-free insights on management and leadership.

A good read to develop more tolerance toward different and often opposing ideas.

A realistic and critical inside view of Silicon Valley's heart.

It is a reductionist approach to macro-history. Which is both good (providing a nice narative) and bad (leaving out many factors and creating non-existing links).
I enjoyed first half of the book much more than the second half.

Baloney detection kit is all we need to live better lives both as individuals and as a society. It is the only safe-guard we have against human atrocities of any kind, be it stupidity, ignorance or tyranny!

Not as good of SnowCrash, still cool though!

Good wrap up on various aspects and practices of conflict management, should reread and practice! :)

I am biased toward linguistics and Prof. McWhorter, that being said, it was a good read on background and controversies of English language.

It could've been a 30 page essay.

Mostly reiteration of other books and studies, yet in a fresh and convincing point of view.

Well, I listened to the abridged version (unknowingly at first), I think I should at least partially reread the unabridged version. Points on mental models and systems thinking are useful and to the point.

Although it was mostly about processes in medicine, the message was clear: excellence can be achieved by constant desire and action for improvement.

It gave me a rather accurate account of how Amazon grew and how it works. The most surprising thing was their frugality.

Far better than [b:The Art of Thinking Clearly 16248196 The Art of Thinking Clearly Rolf Dobelli https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1364848267s/16248196.jpg 18183653]!

Good prelude on how the field have been initiated and some fun back stories for books that I've read (mainly Nudge and Thinking Fast and Slow)

I would recommend it to any young individual whom is starting to whine about unfairness and lack of opportunity in the world.

Although I have read most of reference books mentioned in Decisive, Yet I hadn't put together practical techniques and advices for every day decision making. That is what this book had for me, a model (WRAP) for day to day application and constant practice.

I couldn't shake off the sense of cliché all over the book.