Bounce was quite a bit more sports-focused than I was expecting, but it’s very much of a piece with the Freakonomics series, Malcolm Glawell, and Heath brothers books in that it’s in the “economics as science of human behavior” genre I can’t get enough of. Syed discusses the psychology of success (and naturally, failure) in an engaging and readable way, mostly in athletics, but also peripherally associated fields like chess.  There’s not much that’s a revelation here, but I’m a soft touch for this kind […]