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Drew Verlee14:08:44

Has anyone read thinking fast and slow cover to cover. I'm finally getting around to it and I'm finding it fascinating. E.g > To survive in a dangerous world an organism must react cautiously to a novel stimulus. The authors also point out that familiarity can be built subconsciously. Simply saying a name over and over will make something more familiar.

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Drew Verlee15:08:16

The take away is that I have been giving poor advice about how to market clojure. You should start just by putting up clojure stickers everywhere.

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Alex Miller (Clojure team)15:08:16

I've read it and found it fascinating as well

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Drew Verlee15:08:26

The biggest take away for me is that I have been intentionally ignoring system 1/subconscious at my own determent.

Asier15:08:57

Thinking fast and slow is good! now I'm reading The Master And His Emissary (the divided brain and the making of the western world), fascinating as well.

Drew Verlee15:08:15

I'm curious if anyone actively adopted new habits based on reading it.

dominicm16:08:36

Some of the research behind the book was very strongly challenged a couple years ago.

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jcburley16:08:55

Any links? Iā€™m curious. I have found understanding the various sorts of biases we have to be quite helpful both professionally and in helping better understand sociopolitical issues, such as how people cope (or donā€™t) with the pandemic.

spinningtopsofdoom18:08:56

The priming research is the biggest part that has been called into question (e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03755-2)

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Drew Verlee20:08:19

But has the lack of replication been replicated?

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jcburley21:08:16

Ah, Iā€™d forgotten entirely about the ā€œprimingā€ stuff in that book, thanks! Interesting that itā€™s now being questioned, including by the author, who had depicted it as a slam-dunk reality in his own bookā€¦.

jcburley16:08:51

I read it a few summers ago, along with ā€œThe Undoing Projectā€ (which is about the author and his longtime professional partnership) and ā€œBlinkā€. All fascinating and, for me anyway, relevant! I also highly recommend ā€œThe Checklist Manifestoā€.

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jcburley16:08:55

Any links? Iā€™m curious. I have found understanding the various sorts of biases we have to be quite helpful both professionally and in helping better understand sociopolitical issues, such as how people cope (or donā€™t) with the pandemic.

Bobbi Towers16:08:35

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was starting a new job building apps with Windows Forms, and was seeking help with how to approach OOP for the first time, some brainstorming on plans to eventually sneak in Clojure, and received some great advice. Thank you! I thought I'd share a small update because I've already had some success, though not in the way I expected at all... The application is still all in C# but I'm generating the code with Clojure! EDIT: I may follow up on this in #other-languages if anyone is interested. Your perspective could be very valuable since most here have made this same transition but in the opposite direction.

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