Clojurians Log v2

Has anyone read thinking fast and slow cover to cover. I'm finally getting around to it and I'm finding it fascinating. E.g > To survive in a dangerous world an organism must react cautiously to a novel stimulus. The authors also point out that familiarity can be built subconsciously. Simply saying a name over and over will make something more familiar.

The take away is that I have been giving poor advice about how to market clojure. You should start just by putting up clojure stickers everywhere.

I've read it and found it fascinating as well

The biggest take away for me is that I have been intentionally ignoring system 1/subconscious at my own determent.

Thinking fast and slow is good! now I'm reading The Master And His Emissary (the divided brain and the making of the western world), fascinating as well.

I'm curious if anyone actively adopted new habits based on reading it.

Some of the research behind the book was very strongly challenged a couple years ago.

I read it a few summers ago, along with “The Undoing Project” (which is about the author and his longtime professional partnership) and “Blink”. All fascinating and, for me anyway, relevant! I also highly recommend “The Checklist Manifesto”.

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was starting a new job building apps with Windows Forms, and was seeking help with how to approach OOP for the first time, some brainstorming on plans to eventually sneak in Clojure, and received some great advice. Thank you! I thought I'd share a small update because I've already had some success, though not in the way I expected at all... The application is still all in C# but I'm generating the code with Clojure! EDIT: I may follow up on this in #other-languages if anyone is interested. Your perspective could be very valuable since most here have made this same transition but in the opposite direction.

The priming research is the biggest part that has been called into question (e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03755-2)

But has the lack of replication been replicated?

Ah, I’d forgotten entirely about the “priming” stuff in that book, thanks! Interesting that it’s now being questioned, including by the author, who had depicted it as a slam-dunk reality in his own book….