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Thinking, Fast and SlowBook

by Daniel Kahneman, 2011

Who uses, recommends or left Thinking, Fast and Slow, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Rakhim Davletkaliyev
Programmer and educator. Keeps a public bookshelf with a short comment on every book.
loved

It’s a great book. I wish it was shorter though.

Marked “Great book!” on his public bookshelf.

2026-08-16·rakhim.org ↗

Mark Manson
Author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked; writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
likedaffiliate link

Still the definitive book on cognitive biases and behavioral economics.

Manson’s post reviewing 114 books he had read in recent years, one paragraph each; the book links are Amazon affiliate links (tag=entsblo-20).

2021-03-01·markmanson.net ↗

Ken Norton
Executive coach for product leaders; previously a product partner at GV and a product manager at Google.
recommendedaffiliate link

When does our animal brain make decisions for us before our more analytical brain has a chance to think through the consequences? From Nobel laureate Kahneman, this is one of the most important psychology books ever written.

From “Best Books for Product Managers [2026]”, his standing list, introduced as “the 44 books I’d consider essential to any PM’s bookshelf”. Every book links through amzn.to and a Bookshop.org affiliate id (/a/83161/).

2026-01-07·bringthedonuts.com ↗

Addy Osmani
Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.
recommended

Understand the two systems driving decisions - fast intuitive vs. slow analytical thinking. Know their biases. For complex analysis, create space from intuitions and emotions. Slow down and use structured reasoning.

A post distilling his favorite takeaways from about 40 soft-skills books for developers and eng leaders.

2023-10-08·addyosmani.com ↗

Tom Peters
Management writer; co-author of In Search of Excellence and author of The Excellence Dividend.
recommended

Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

A list he wrote after his niece at Tuck asked him for the best leadership and management books; the second half is drawn from a draft of The Excellence Dividend.

2017-04-13·tompeters.com ↗

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Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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