Ask HN: Books or Paper which helped you develop reasoning skills
I am trying to improve my reasoning skills because lately I have been making a lot of technical decisions and many are going wrong. Any resource that helped you?
I did this and it helped me enormously. Not only understanding actions/outcomes of myself and others but also flaws I had in tons of my own mental models and behaviors.
I would also recommend listening to the „You are not so smart“ and „beat your genes“ podcasts. Both will reference papers and books that provide further reading materials.
As far as books go, I got a lot from Nassim Talebs work and the great mental models series.
Historically those were the 2 main intellectual and spiritual drivers behind the creation and rise of modern reason based (as opposed to superstition magical thinking) western society and modern science, etc.
Writing a few papers and critique reading a few on the subjects were helpful.
Yeah, yeah. Say what you will. An addictive forum of people thinking really hard about all kinds of weird topics probably did more for me than any single book I read.