Good decisions are rarely blocked by a lack of intelligence or effort.
They break down because modern problems are complex, interconnected, and shaped by competing pressures that traditional reasoning struggles to handle.
Reason Smarter: Learnable Reasoning for a Complex, Sustainable World is a thinking book about how to reason well when clarity is hard to find. It introduces a practical reasoning framework and applies it to real-world situations where data is incomplete, stakeholders disagree, and consequences matter, especially in sustainability-related contexts.
You may read the book cover to cover, or return to it as a reference when decisions feel uncertain. The extracts below offer a short introduction to how the book thinks.
Selected Extracts from the Book
Why Reasoning Breaks Down in a Complex World
An opening extract explaining why more information does not automatically lead to better decisions, and why structure matters more than certainty.
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The Integrity Scale
An introduction to one of the five ReasonQ lenses, showing how ethical blind spots emerge under pressure, and how they can be surfaced before decisions harden.
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A Reasoning Scenario: When the Data Is Incomplete and the Room Is Divided
A real-world scenario demonstrating how structured reasoning improves clarity without forcing consensus or rushing to closure.
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These extracts are not designed to provide answers. They are an invitation into a way of thinking.
The book develops this approach further through the ReasonQ Five Lenses and twenty practical scenarios, showing how reasoning can become a repeatable, everyday discipline rather than a matter of instinct.
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