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Experiment I ran this year: instead of reading 3 unrelated books, I read 3 books on the same theme (decision-making).
The books: Thinking Fast and Slow (Kahneman), The Psychology of Money (Housel), and Predictably Irrational (Ariely).
What happened when I read them as a cluster:
1. The contradictions became visible. Kahneman says we are predictably irrational due to cognitive biases. Housel says our financial decisions are rational given our personal history -- they just look irrational from the outside. These are fundamentally different claims. Reading them separately, I would have agreed with both. Reading them together, I had to actually think about which framework I believed.
2. The examples reinforced each other. Ariely's auction experiments illustrate Kahneman's anchoring bias with better data. Housel's Bill Gates/Kent Evans story makes Kahneman's luck-vs-skill argument tangible. The books TEACH each other.
3. I retained more. Seeing the same concept (loss aversion, framing effects, narrative bias) from 3 angles cemented it. Three months later, I can explain these concepts from memory. After reading a single book on a topic, I usually forget the details within weeks.
My recommendation: pick a topic you care about. Read 3 books on it in sequence. You will learn more from that cluster than from 3 random books, guaranteed.
Good clusters I have planned:
Has anyone else tried reading in clusters? What combinations worked well?
I love non-fiction for the ideas, but most of it reads like a blog post stretched to 300 pages. Looking for non-fiction where the prose itself is beautiful.
Books I have read that hit this bar:
What I do NOT want: books where people say "just push through the bad writing for the great ideas." If I have to push through, the author failed at their one job.
What else has beautiful non-fiction prose?