IA Book Club: The Scout Mindset

​Join Dan Brown and friends for a conversation about topics in information architecture, centering on some of our favorite books.

​Based on popular vote from the first book club meeting, we will be reading The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't.

​About the book

​In The Scout Mindset, Galef shows that what makes scouts better at getting things right isn't that they're smarter or more knowledgeable than everyone else. It's a handful of emotional skills, habits, and ways of looking at the world—which anyone can learn. With fascinating examples ranging from how to survive being stranded in the middle of the ocean, to how Jeff Bezos avoids overconfidence, to how superforecasters outperform CIA operatives, to Reddit threads and modern partisan politics, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.

​About Curious Squid

​Curious Squid is a design agency based in Washington, DC that focuses on information architecture, product design, discovery and research. Spanning industries and verticals, we concentrate instead on complex structural problems in digital products and web sites. After running EightShapes for 18 years, Dan Brown created Curious Squid to continue consulting with enterprise organizations on information architecture and system-minded design.