I feel like talking about how to think is going to be a bigger topic of discussion going forward now that we have AI, and dependence on software is really going to the next level — so since I've always gotten such amazing recommendations on HN, I had to ask this here
I have read many these kind of books, and I have found none of them to be helpful. They are just mangling delicious-sounding sentences.
I have found that the most effective way to think is to write your own book, your own expedition of the matter at hand. When you write a sentence/paragraph, you notice how poor/ugly/erroneous your writing is, and then you rewrite it. I love being noticing how wrong I am, because at that point I have learned something. This way, you have iterated and learned the matter, and learnings are not just in your brain with you all the time, but you also have externalized it in writing, and the passing of time shows if it is timeless bulletproof understanding/thinking/learning/whatever.
Would you mind listing the ones you didn't find useful? I believe 90% of everything is crap, but I want to get to the good stuff faster.
Thinking is writing and writing is thinking, and thus also we've been pretty intense about the topic for a long time:
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=how+to+write
Just two cents.
Thanks. This is brilliant and makes so much sense, but it's not something I would have searched for.
This also plays along very well with OP's question. I personally always thought that AI makes me think a lot more but maybe that's because I give it massive essays while other people use it to avoid writing essays.
from previous thread, a lot of good suggestions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797862
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33224904A succinct book which is a good primer for thinking through things is "Rulebook for Arguments" by Anthony Weston. Quick to get through and understandable.
I really like The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods by Baggini & Fosl.
Learning to Learn the coursera course is always recommended
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living Hardcover by Ryan HolidayPhilosophical Investigations
LLM’s are mechanisms simulating playing language games.