Books to think with.

A useful vocabulary for examining intuition, uncertainty and overconfidence. Read the experiments critically: the book is a starting point for questions about judgment, not a diagnostic tool.

How can a mistake become useful evidence? Syed compares approaches to failure and feedback across organisations. A practical companion for thinking about how teams learn, rather than whom they blame.

A sweeping account of the stories and institutions that organise human life. Its breadth makes it an engaging conversation starter; read its large claims alongside more specialised historical work.

A practical guide to making everyday actions easier to repeat. Most useful when treated as a collection of small experiments with your environment and routines, rather than a promise of transformation.