Thinking, Fast and Slow

Named in Altman's 2015 Twitter AMA reading list for young startup founders, alongside Plato's Republic and Newton's Principia.

Goodreads page for the book; appears on Dalio's reading list, no single first-person source located.

“This is a landmark book in social thought, in the same league as The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud.”

Macmillan page carries Taleb's blurb calling it 'a landmark book in social thought, in the same league as The Wealth of Nations.'

“Captivating dive into human decision making, marred by inclusion of several/many psychology studies that fail to replicate.”

Cited from a tweet by Andreessen (@pmarca).

#4 on the all-time Hacker News books list.

Bengio built his System 1 / System 2 research agenda on Kahneman's framework, drawing on the book in his NeurIPS 2019 keynote and interviews.

“I enjoyed that book, too. Fascinating.”

Listed on Stewart Brand's Manual for Civilization book list.

Listed in the 'Science, Philosophy, Evolution, History of Human Civilization' section of Li Lu's published Recommended Book List (Himalaya Capital, May 2020).

“He does a really good job of trying to give you an intuition about numbers, and spotting some of the many mistakes and fallacies we make when we're thinking in terms of probability and statistics.”

Quoted in The New Stack's coverage of Fowler's interview, where he recommends the book to help developers reason about nondeterminism in AI.

“One of the best starting points for exploring the tangled web of the human mind.”

Selected in Harari's 'A Haphazard Guided Tour of Humanity on the Brink' collection on his official site; description confirmed verbatim.