Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths (2016) is a fast, insightful book about technical tools for thinking better. Chapter titles summarize key themes:

1. Optimal Stopping
2. Explore/Exploit
3. Sorting
4. Caching
5. Scheduling
6. Bayes's Rule
7. Overfitting
8. Relaxation
9. Randomness
10. Networking
11. Game Theory

Without (too many) equations, the authors explain how to apply a wide variety of mathematical discoveries to issues of everyday life. Good stuff, all!

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