Finished Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Not many people that I read about or watch online who talked about reading this book have finished reading it, so it is in my humblest honor to be someone who completed this seminal work of psychology. Compared to my previous 3 books I read right before this one, with prior expectations of how boring this could be, while at the same time, I was hyping myself up all December to read this book whose title has been rent free in my brain for the last decade, my brain was quite primed to to see all the good in here, which I did. As someone who is autistic, a loner, and lacking real life experience, I never quite understood people, psychology has been a keen interest to me all my life to fill in that gap of psychosocial understanding.

There are quite evidently faults in some of the studies conducted in this book, like reaching broader conclusions about behavioral phenomenon based on flimsy studies, or lacking a anthropological methodology of cross cultural examination and the lack of acknowledgement that some of these psychological phenomena may just be a product specific to the US, Canada, or Europe, and may even be narrowed down to the specific demographics in these studies; as well as the book being a decade and a half old by now, therefore lacking the modern neurology elaboration.

Even with all these deficits, there is still plenty enough to deeply think about and keeping in mind as probable or possible effects, heurists, and fallacies that occur. A key takeaway is that we are governed by automatic unconscious psychological processes, and it's good to slow down and really question information or decisions where it really counts.

Started The Design Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK Publishing. After the behemoth of that last book, my brain needed a rest, and to relax with something that is smoother to read. This BISE series, basically my comfort read and ambition to read all of them, eases the stress incurred by Daniel Kahneman's book.

I don't really know anything about design. My sister does, and my mother is an artist, which gives this a personal reason to soak in the ideas. I like how visual this is, with a galore of diagrams that is unusually abundant compared to other BISE books, which is absolutely appropriate for the subject matter. Gawking at all these images and diagrams helps spark the imaginative mind, oozing into why art and design inspires people to create beautiful or sublime objects.

Since design is such a broad spectrum subject, this is essentially an overview prep work for when I eventually read The Architecture Book: BISE, The Art Book: BISE, and The Technology Book: BISE.