Julia Galef's Book Recommendations
Julia Galef is an author and speaker known for her work on rationality, reasoning, and decision-making. She is the author of "The Scout Mindset." Given her book recommendations, she seems interested in forecasting, decision-making, and understanding societal dynamics.
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📚 Books Recommended by Julia Galef 8
Decisive
"Explains four of the biggest judgment errors [...] and gives tips for combating them."
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How to Measure Anything
"Has some good advice on how to improve your ability to make accurate predictions."
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Superforecasting
"Has some good advice on how to improve your ability to make accurate predictions."
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Tribe of Mentors
"I'm in Tim Ferriss' latest book "Tribe of Mentors," short chapters of life advice from people in different fields: Lots of good stuff throughout from ppl like @VitalikButerin, @waitbutwhy & @RayDalio. Hardcover's hefty & attractive, would make a good gift."
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Dragons of Autumn Twilight
"Last weekend was my brother @jessegalef's wedding to @donovanable, and as wedding favors they gave out books they loved / books that had influenced their life One of the books was Dragons of Autumn Twilight so of COURSE that's the one I chose to take home with me"
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What We Owe the Future
"A fascinating, profound read."
Why We're Polarized
"Really enjoyed it!"
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The Redwall Cookbook
"Any of you grow up reading the Redwall books? I did, & one of my favorite things in them were the lovingly detailed descriptions of the food the characters ate at their feasts Well: there is a Redwall cookbook & my brother found it for me for Christmas, bc he is the best brother"
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