What books will I think are the best to recommend to people who want to improve themselves and/or their communities?
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Jan 13
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How to Actually Change Your Mind, Eliezer Yudkowsky
5%
The pragmatist guide to live, Malcolm and Simone Collins
84%
Nonviolent Communication, Marshall Rosenberg

I run some seminars/workshops on topics like self-improvement, providing useful feedback, effective communication, and other topics that relate to building an epistemically-healthy community. At the end, I like to recommend some books to people for further reading. Currently I'm recommending some combination of The Scout Mindset, Thinking in Bets, Thinking Fast and Slow, and The Elephant in the Brain, depending on the exact topic that we were discussing. I'd like to expand this list, particularly to books that focus less on cognitive biases and more on other areas. These are for a general audience, so they need to not rely on much prior knowledge. If there are too many books suggested for me to read them all, I'll pick 5-10 of them that seem most promising. I don't have all that much time for reading nowadays, so reading them all will take a while. Once I've read all the ones I plan to read, any that I decided to start recommending at my seminars are the ones that will win this market.

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Ok, reopened. I'll close it once I get around to reading everything I want to read and it seems like nothing new is going to be getting posted.

Haven't had a chance to read either of these yet, and I was hoping for more than 2 recommendations. Any objections to me reopening the market?

@IsaacKing I endorse reopening the market.

bought Ṁ10 of The pragmatist guide...

Oops. Didn't intend to move the market so much. The section on evidence is a bit disappointing for people who like to think about Bayes theorem all day, but in terms of concepts that I actually expect regular people to use, the book is great.

@Tassilo Referring to this book: The pragmatist guide to live, Malcolm and Simone Collins

bought Ṁ3 of How to Actually Chan...
The Sequences are classics, and this one is available in print and covers general good epistemics