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Mind Wide Open: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life Steven Johnson Scribner/Simon & Schuster (2004) How and why the brain sciences can help to “open wide the mind’s caged door” I read this book before Steven Johnson’s later works, The Ghost Map (2006) and Where Good Ideas Come From (2011) and then re-read [.].

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Superforecasting: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner Crown Publishers (2015) How to blend computer-based forecasting and subjective judgment to gain a better sense of what will likely occur Obviously, computers can process, organize, and access more data faster than can human beings.

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How Could I Miss That? Jamie Dimon on the Hot Seat

Harvard Business Review

Many recent crises cannot be explained by the misuse of information, as has been so well described by leading books on decision making (notably, Dan Ariely's 2008 book Predictably Irrational and Daniel Kahneman's 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow ). As it turns out, this type of failure is quite common.

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Staying Human in the Robot Age

Harvard Business Review

. “A wealth of information creates poverty of attention,” said Herbert Simon, long before today’s computer-fueled data tsunami. But space for “slow thinking,” in Daniel Kahneman’s term, has been systematically expunged from today’s high-pressure offices.

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