When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...

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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…is one of the most insightful books I’ve read about what makes us human and how we understand each other. It changed how I think about the interactions I have, and I bet it will do the same for you Reading Steven Pinker is always a delight. Each book gives you deep insight into things previously unseen, which then bathes the world we thought we knew in a new light. In When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows… Pinker shows us that the transition from various forms of private knowledge to common knowledge is the key cognitive tool for understanding when and how people coordinate to bring about sudden massive change—for better and for worse. If Pinker's ideas become common knowledge, we'll be far better equipped to handle the massive disruptions already arriving in our hyper-networked world Think you know what others think about what you are thinking? It turns out you’re probably wrong. And thanks to When Everyone Knows, now we know why. Once you read this book, you’ll never view human behavior quite the same way again An expository masterpiece. Steven Pinker explains, with beautiful clarity, how common knowledge is critical to successful human interaction A masterful look behind the curtain at the calculations that propel us forward. With his brilliant knack for exposing what we take for granted, celebrated cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker explores, among many phenomena, our very human tendency to reveal information strategically, only letting others see what we want them to see A lively exposition of one of the most important and basic concepts in game theory, and the surprising ways it plays out in human affairs Insight packed. With brisk authority, Pinker shows that a key aspect of being human, sociality, depends on a mutual understanding of intentions, which allows us to make sense of responses like laughing and blushing and phenomena as various as myth-making and online cancel culture Expand reviews