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I'm slowly running out of steam while the author speeds up. The last few chapters weren't for me.

I've let this slide a bit, because I decided to read other books. Where was I? Oh yes, Decisions & Choices, and how we make them.

Prospect theory & loss aversion. Endowment effect, buyers, sellers & traders... All that stuff make my head spin. Guess, I'm not an economic.

End of Part 3. It's funny to read about the so called experts and how they fall for cognitive illusions over and over again.

De-evolution
An interesting concept. Let's see how it will evolve. Great book.

Wow. A promising start!

'Intuition vs formulas' Although I don't fully agree with the author on this topic I recognize he has a point. Being in the algorithm business myself I wonder if it would be easier to develop one for book rating. I guess my current star-system is too intuitive.

This one made the quickest pass through my shelves. From wishlist via to-read to currently-reading in less than a day. The blurb is intriguing and it's a debut novel.

"Well, don't worry, my friend, for they are coming. . . . Look! Look, curse you, look! . . . It's just over your left shoulder. . . ."

"We cannot suppress the powerful intuition that what makes sense in hindsight today was predictable yesterday. The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future."
That doesn't surprise me, I knew it all along. ;-)

End of part 2. The last few chapters were hard to swallow. Will it get more complicated from here? I guess not: regression to the mean :-)

The Linda problem. I can hardly believe how intuition sometimes beats logic.

The law of small numbers, priming and anchoring. The latter one being interesting as well as unsettling to me.

End of part 1. Very interesting topics. Too bad I'm not a native English speaker. My System 1 is not working very well in English and System 2 is triggered way too often, like in the priming EAT SO_P / WASH SO_P thing (for which I developed a similar German version that worked quite well with some colleagues).

I think I know why there is a nibbled pencil on the cover of this book, and that makes me smile.

"He was a German, but only a Rhinelander and a commoner; and he was now a potentially dangerous madman."
This made me LOL, although the story this quote is from is anything but funny.

I re-post this word cloud I made of ANIMAL FARM in honor of George Orwell, who would have celebrated his 110 birthday today.

"Buy it fast. Read it slowly." someone said about this book. I've done the former & will do the latter. It's a demanding read but also surprisingly funny.

I was thinking about reading a non-fiction book and picked this one off my shelf. Hopefully after reading it I'll better know why I did what I did.

"Das Rote Kreuz und die beiden Kirchen haben ihre Unterlagen [...] zum vielleicht größten Fahndungsamt der Welt vereint" Das war 1947. Eine Maßnahme, um die Millionen von Verschollenen und Vermissten zu finden. Heute würde man Twitter o.ä. benutzen, falls dies nach einem Krieg noch möglich wäre, was ich persönlich bezweifle.

Die Spannung bleibt. Einen weiteren Mord gibt's auch. Was will das Krimiherz mehr?

Durchaus spannend. Dem Kommissar wird es wirklich nicht leicht gemacht. Ein britischer Lieutenant und ein unliebsamer Kollege und dann auch noch eine zweite Leiche. So sollen Krimis wohl auch sein. Wenig Verben, wenig Action, aber das mag ich in diesem Fall.

Ein eiskalter Winter 1947, eine kalte Leiche im Schutt und ein kühler Oberinspektor, der den Mord aufzuklären hat. Das gleicht ein wenig die Affenhitze von draußen aus.

Das Buch lag schon seit über einem halben Jahr in einer staubigen Ecke meines Kindle. Höchste Zeit es mal zu lassen!

This story has a little Hearts In Atlantis feel to it and this is great, because HIA was my first King novel, and one of my favorites.

It doesn't matter that I know some of the stories from the author's website. Those stories are well worth to be read multiple times.

Reading this in tandem with Troy Blackfords's new short story collection FOR THOSE WITH EYES TO SEE.