Nearly every non-fiction book I've appreciated in the last 10 years has referenced this book. I have a standing offer to purchase this book for virtually anyone who will commit to reading it.

If you can deal with the length of the book, the lessons it will teach about how our thinking is fundamentally biased as humans will change the way you view information. This book is responsible for a whole new way of thinking for me.

Note: if you enjoy TFAS, please also check out [[noise]] - Kahneman's second large work. Kahneman has now passed away, but his work will continue to echo for decades on.

I enjoyed Noise, and specifically enjoyed how Kahneman outlined it as different from [[thinking-fast-and-slow]], pointing out that Noise is not the same as cognitive biases, though it causes similar types of errors.

Kahneman specifically makes reference to the fact that bias tends to move things in a predictable direction; noise tends to create errors that are not as predictable. He also mentions that the errors caused by noise are, statistically speaking, possibly the largest opportunity for improvement, as the net error from noise may be larger. He also talks about the fact that interventions for noise often rely on simple things like creating consistent processes.