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?
Ask HN: Books or Paper which helped you develop reasoning skills
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Re: Ask HN: Books or Paper which helped you develop reasoning skills
#2A Practical Guide To Critical Thinking by David A. Hunter
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#3Here you go, Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3800 <-- Free & legal download.
Re: Ask HN: Books or Paper which helped you develop reasoning skills
#4No particular book, but 2 hi quality areas that may boost your reasoning and critical thinking skills: philosophy in general (like ancient greek philosophers etc) and theology (from medieval arguments about how many angels on the tip of the needle to modern debates).
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.
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#5Can you please share a few example? Many technical decisions rely on experiences.
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#6I found Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making, by Hastie & Dawes, useful.
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#7Critical thinking or engineering ethics courses. Look up the required books and buy one of those.
Writing a few papers and critique reading a few on the subjects were helpful.
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#8How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices by Annie Duke
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#9Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman will help you understand why many of the technical decisions you are making are going wrong.
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#10Critique of Pure Reason and Philosophical Investigations -- I studied philosophy as an undergrad and only helpful modulo your definition of "helpful" of course. For me, expecting my best decisions to be at least partly wrong and my knowledge to always be incomplete.