Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to The Half Life of Facts

In every discipline, facts change.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Half Life of Facts launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to▲66

   Information, networks, complexity to understand Economics

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Naked Statistics▲66

   Stripping the dread from the data

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Too Big To Know▲70

   Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood▲67

   Where the big ideas of the modern era came from

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatil▲56

   Politics and Economics of the Future

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Switch▲68

   How to change things when change is hard

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite▲72

   Turning logic and common sense on its head

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   The Organized Mind▲70

   Thinking straight in the age of information overload

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Made to Stick▲82

   Why some ideas survive and others die

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Made to Stick▲71

    Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

    2015 · heathbrothers.com · its alternatives →

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    Sapiens▲185

    A brief history of humankind

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    The End of Average▲63

    How we succeed in a world that values sameness

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    The Organized Mind▲65

    Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

    2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Truth or Truthiness▲64

    Learn to think like a data scientist

    2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions▲71

    Kuhn challenged linear notions of scientific progress

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Predictably Irrational▲96

    The hidden forces that shape our decisions

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Signal and the Noise▲73

    Why so many predictions fail - but some don't

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Beginning of Infinity▲64

    Exploration of the Nature and Progress of Knowledge

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Master Switch▲71

    : The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    How We Learn▲64

    The surprising truth about when, where, and why it happens

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Shape of Time▲62

    Remarks on the history of things

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Fooled By Randomness ▲105

    The hidden role of chance in life and markets

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Zero-Sum Society▲61

    Distribution and the possibilities for economic change

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Leadership BS▲65

    Fixing workplaces and careers one truth at a time

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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