🧠Thinking, Fast and Slow

We have a fast, automatic way of thinking that tells good stories, and a slow, effortful one that could check them and mostly does not. The fast one substitutes an easy question for a hard one, ignores how often things happen in general, and is confident in proportion to how coherent the story feels and not to how much evidence there is. Knowing this does not switch it off. It only tells you where to put the checklist.

• Background reading for 00. Statistics for Product Decisions I Hub. Hale said dip into it. I started on 10 February and finished on 14 December, which is a long dip.
• Page reports from the journal, for the record: 61 in March, 140 by the midterm, 233 in Lisbon (it did not come to Lisbon), 402 in the cold week of October.
• The first two parts are the ones I use. The last two I read with respect and from a distance.
• Book sixteen of 🎯 Finish 16 books and keep notes on the ones that matter. Pallet slept on it for most of the summer, which accounts for some of the ten months.
• Ten months, for the record. The slowest book in the vault.
• Read around it, not quoted from it: 🏛️ Herbert A. Simon drew the limits of the reasoner a generation earlier, and Seneca had the fast system's habit of frightening itself written down in a letter, 💬 There are more things, Lucilius, likely.