The Human Operating Manual

Science Resources

  • The Great Mental Models Volume 1
  • The Great Mental Models Volume 2
  • The Great Mental Models Volume 3
  • Super Thinking: The big book of mental models
  • An Introduction to Decision Theory
  • The Art of Thinking Clearly
  • Thinking Fast and Slow
  • Freakonomics
  • Fooled by Randomness
  • Chaos: Making a new science
  • A New Kind of Science
  • A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics
  • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that transform the world
  • Skin in the Game: Hidden asymmetries in daily life
  • The Feynman Lectures
  • Bad Science
  • The Fabric of Reality: The science of parallel universes
  • The Science of Can and Can’t: A Physicists Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals
  • https://peterattiamd.com/category/understanding-science/
    • The Transformed Cell, by Steve Rosenberg
    • Anything by Karl Popper
    • Anything by Frederic Bastiat
    • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn
    • Risk, Chance, and Causation, by Michael Bracken
    • Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
    • “The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses,” by T.C. Chamberlin
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