As of today I will start sharing with my worldwide reader base (I now have one reader apparently in Santiago, Chile which means I have at least one reader in each continent) the books that I read and find useful enough to share.

Two such books are The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations and Freakonomics. The first one at core deals with how given problem solving, a cognitively diverse group consistently will come up with better solutions (or pick the best solution alternative) in comparison to a few experts’ in that particular area or any individual expert no matter how well they know the field or smart they are. This in turn because a group’s aggregate knowledge and wisdom will always surpass an individual’s or a few individuals’ even if those individuals are experts in that field. Very interesting read and I highly recommend it if you haven’t read it yet. I find this book so useful and intersting, that I will be back to talk about this in a few months and will tell you more about it then.

The second one, Freakonomics, looks at economics from a very different perspective, one that we dont usually think about and tries to answer questions such as why legalisation of aboration really was the cause of decrease of crime rate, why drug-dealers tend to live with their mothers, simply put hidden side of things that we don’t always think about. I found it to be a fun and interesting read.