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00Through context, study.

Through context, study.

Study deeper than the page.

Why does anchoring still bite even when I know about it?

Kahneman frames anchoring as a perceptual effect, not a reasoning one — the anchor lands in working memory before deliberation gets a chance to push back. He walks through the judges-and-dice study where even experts couldn't decouple their sentences from a randomly-rolled number.
p. 124 · ch. 11
01A question about what you're reading

Talk to the book.

One question, a real answer — grounded in the actual page. No hallucinated chapters, no vibes.

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The Selfish Gene
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The Design of Everyday Things
Norman
Seeing Like a State
Scott
02Method, not template

Choose how it teaches.

Define the agent. Socratic, Feynman, devil's advocate — or your own. The same book, taught the way you actually learn.

Socratic Tutor · in action
So System 1 is just the wrong one — we should suppress it, right?

Before we get there — when was the last time System 1 saved you from a mistake System 2 would have walked into?
03A week later

We manage your memory.

Every note — yours, or ones we wrote as you read — becomes a question. We bring it back when you're about to forget.

Review · 3 cards due across 2 books
Say it back, in your own words
Why does anchoring keep working even on people who know about it?
From Thinking, Fast and Slow · p. 124 · marked 6 days ago
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