“Whether this instinct to self-debunk was a product of his intellectual humility, the politesse one learns from growing up in Paris, or some compulsion born of melancholia, I’m not qualified to say. What, exactly, was going on inside his brilliant mind is a matter for his friends, family, and biographers. Seen from the outside, though, his habit of reversal was an extraordinary gift. Kahneman’s careful, doubting mode of doing science was heroic. He got everything wrong, and yet somehow he was always right.” Daniel Engber in The Atlantic on the recently deceased Nobel prize winner who was the world’s leading expert on the world’s most popular affliction: Wrongness. Daniel Kahneman Wanted You to Realize How Wrong You Are.

+ WaPo (Gift Article): Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate who upended economics, dies at 90. “Daniel Kahneman, an Israeli American psychologist and best-selling author whose Nobel Prize-winning research upended economics — as well as fields ranging from sports to public health — by demonstrating the extent to which people abandon logic and leap to conclusions, died March 27.”