Why should we care about the friendship between Daniel Coniman and Amos Tversky?

Michael Lewis will give us plenty of good reasons.

He'll be here to talk about his new book, The Undoing Project.

There was work done by two psychologists in the 70s and 80s, exploring the way the

mind worked when it was making judgments in conditions of uncertainty.

Don't you want a good excuse to rest more and work less?

Ariana Huffington has reviewed a new book called Rest and she joins us to talk about it.

There are so many things we can do, starting with creating a transition to sleep.

Our bodies are exhausted but our brains have not been given an opportunity to slow down.

Plus we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

This is Inside the New York Times Booker View, I'm Pamela Paul.

Michael Lewis joins us now.

His latest book is called The Undoing Project, a friendship that changed our minds.

Michael thank you so much for being here.

Total pleasure.

All right, this book has an origin story that I think is the best kind of origin story

in that it came out of a book review.

Not a book review in the New York Times unfortunately, but a book review by two University of Chicago

academics.

Yes, I written a book called Moneyball, which was about the word I've never heard of it.

You know Brad Pitt is.

Yeah.

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