/lit/ critical thinking chart

[Anonymous No.11415783]

Let's get a list together - useful books for living in the modern world.

If there are enough contributions, we could make a chart.

I'm thinking stuff like logic; cognitive biases; assessing health product claims; understanding marketing tricks... basically anything that might be helpful in analysing everyday information.

You could even just make suggestions about which topics to cover.

[Anonymous No.11415790]

>>11415783

begin at the end, the fault in our stars and harry potter are great begnnings

[Anonymous No.11415796]

Propaganda - Edward Bernays
Propaganda - Jacques Ellul

[Anonymous No.11415816]

>>11415796
Bernays is obviously influential and his Propaganda book was seminal, but I think today there are better ones on the subject. "Manufacturing Consent" for the political side, "Persuasion" for the psychological aspects of propaganda, and business-wise, any of those awful books like "48 Laws of Power" just to understand how the mind of a businessman works.

[Anonymous No.11415854]

>>11415783/lit will probably roast me, but i really liked a brief history of humankind

[Anonymous No.11415871]

>>11415854
I'm not going to roast you, but the reason that book is immensely popular is its washy-wishy social commentary, which really appeals to the masses for some reason. I mean, it's supposed to be anthropology but there's very little of that. It reminded me of watching a TED talk - very little information, a lot of "inspirational" crap about humanity and life in general, all of which is unsubstantiated.

[Anonymous No.11415896]

>>11415871
any more profound recommendations?
Also i think he did pretty well what he intended to. And that is being brief and giving the more casual reader an insight to our complete development. An extremely ambitious theme, that you can only present so substantial without overloading the book.

[Anonymous No.11415912]

>>11415896
Compare Sapiens with "A short History of Nearly Everything", which is even more ambitious, because it presents a condensed history of natural science (including a lot of anthropology) and it does so extremely well.

[Anonymous No.11416356]

thinking fast and slow is a good primer on cogntive biases, really useful for decision making day to day

[Anonymous No.11416383]

>>11415854
That book is pure piss; it repeats 4 points over 300-odd pages in the largest font imaginable. It has zero understanding of political theory (it believes Marxism is idealist and not materialist).

Also it was made by an Israeli Illegal Settler

[Anonymous No.11417629]

maybe

[Anonymous No.11417644]

>>11416356
I'll second this. Kahneman is great.