Covering many of the same concepts as Michael Lewis' The Undoing Project, which features the research of Israeli psychologists Kahneman and Tversky, and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, which I hope to be able to blog about very soon. Here Gladwell contextualizes the concepts methodically laid out by Kahneman involving the fundamentally distinct types of human thought processes that impact decision-making. As always, Gladwell entertains while he informs, and applies his ideas to real-world problems. In this case, he makes a lengthy exploration of the killing of Amadou Diallo by four New York City police officers, and how the principles of fast and slow thinking might be used to change police training and behaviors. Powerful and at times painful listening, this was very worthwhile.
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