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I guess I'm the foolish one, but I thought the title implied that the book was about algorithms you can use to make decisions, not decision making algorithms.

If the former sounds interesting, here is a similar book I read a long time ago: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Deci...

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Algorithms To Live By is an amazing book. My favorite chapter was the one about sorting where the author comes to the same conclusion I did many years ago – do not sort your socks. It's a waste of time. Bucket them by type instead.

I have a bucket for socks of the type sock. Am I doing it right?

If it works for you, it's right.

Second this. Fascinating book.

Thanks for the reco - this book looks very promising. <Added via Audible>

A personal deficit I have noticed in myself is .... not being able to commit to making a decision, because I think probabilistically - that I can see the other probabilities but have been recently using some shortcuts. I need more.

I’ve been working to improve this very issue myself; the compulsion to seek further options before committing to a decision has diminishing returns.

This site is also useful in that regard: https://untools.co/

So...there are at least two foolish.

Yes, it's about reinforcement learning, same as AlphaGo.

You're saying that you thought it was a self-help/self-improvement book?

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