Rationality Newsletter

I don't care who you are or what you're into. EVERYONE should read this monster of a book and see for themselves. This world is not hopeless. Not when we have such minds in it. Of course, that means we all need to step up to the plate and don't let bias, willful ignorance, or intellectual dishonesty win.

I think that the biggest benefit is that I now see word more clearly as what is actually is, and not what I think it is, thanks to my continuous attempt to eliminate cognitive biases inspired by the book. It also gives me a vocabulary to talk about some concepts I couldn't verbalize before.

I'm quite confident it's helped me consistently ask better questions and refuse to accept incomplete answers, with major implications for self directed study.

it taught me the proper use of humility; teaching me when to be humble, and when to be confident. As someone who paradoxically struggles with both arrogance and self esteem issues, this was life changing.

Sound like a self-help book? It isn't. Or, at least, any of us could use it that way, but to me, it's probably the single-most-useful, courageous, funny, and excruciatingly smart book I've read in a very long time.

You will learn that being rational and logical does not equal being inhuman, cold or oblivious to the social environment around you, as Hollywood would have it. On the contrary, you will learn more about yourself, other people and the way humans work, and how to improve the quality of life of yourself and those around you.