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How are you feeling about this one so far?

Ethan wrote: "How are you feeling about this one so far?"

Interesting question, as this is far from my usual fare. I'd decided as an exercise to read my way through our corporate recommended reading list as a way of changing things up and exposing myself to different kinds of writing. This one has been unexpectedly enjoyable so far, actually. I was expecting something dry and dull; while this isn't exactly J.K. Rowling or C.S. Lewis, the author writes much more accessibly than I'd anticipated. So far, he's done a terrific job of promoting what we might call 'epistemic humility', providing a litany of examples, illustrations, statistics, and studies demonstrating that human judgment and intuition is not only far from bulletproof; it's barely even understood. Quite fascinating, really.