I somehow feel everyone pretends to have read “Thinking fast and slow” by Daniel Kahneman, but whenever I dig deep, most of the time I get to know they just bought the book but watched a video summary (it’s quite a biggie)
I will admit I bailed half way through, as I felt it was just repeating itself over and over with slightly different words and examples. That plus the fact that by the time I started reading it it was becoming more and more clear that much of the experimental evidence presented didn't stand up to scrutiny. All the being said the parts I did read were interesting and I buy the overall framework presented, if not all the conclusions they draw. It is also a really interesting document on how supposedly cutting edge psychological research was done.
Agree, maybe I'd already heard it's central premise too much before I read it but it seemed like a book on stating the bleeding obvious again and again. It also felt like a blog post rather than a full book. I tend to think that about a lot of these kind of books though.
A hell of a lot of people, mostly in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh). The public perception there about Quora is that it’s a great and informative community. It’s from my experience not regarded as spam.
At the beginning, Quora was heavily focused on Silicon Valley. It had a bunch of Silicon Valley VCs and other notables providing content, as friends of the founders.
As far as I could tell, that made it much prized among that set of South Asians who were either in Silicon Valley or desperately wanted to be. It led to some very unfortunate culture clashes.
Its appeal to India seems to have broadened from there, and it still seems very popular.
I agree to this one. Google is often pointing to websites that haven’t been updated in years, or reused their content from 2008 by adding 2023 at the end of the headline
