Thinking, Fast and Slow
A map of judgment under pressure—and a reason to question how cleanly any map can divide the mind.
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12 concise guides across psychology, science, economics, politics, nature and technology. Each page identifies the central question, proposes a reading route and names useful limits.
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Linden’s contemporary pages are independent editorial commentary. They contain no full text, extended quotations or chapter-by-chapter substitute summaries. Read the guide here, then borrow or buy an authorized edition.
The Design of Everyday Things
A humane introduction to why confusing objects are usually a design problem, not a user failure.
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Short essays on why financial behavior is shaped by experience, uncertainty and the stories people tell about enough.
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A wide-ranging argument that political and economic institutions shape whether prosperity can spread and endure.
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A model of moral intuition, group belonging and why disagreement often begins before reasons arrive.
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Field reporting and deep history brought together to show extinction as both scientific pattern and present-tense event.
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A biography of scientific collaboration that opens into the promises and governance problems of gene editing.
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Essays that bring botanical knowledge, Indigenous teaching and the practice of reciprocity into one sustained conversation.
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A journey through caves, mines, burial places and deep time that asks what humans conceal and leave behind.
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A data-centered argument that systems designed around an assumed default person can distribute risk and inconvenience unevenly.
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An intimate history of the Great Migration told through individual lives moving inside a vast national transformation.
Open the guideThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism
A large-scale argument about how behavioral data became a source of prediction, profit and private power.
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