What's the meaning of 'bouncing off' in this context?
Yes! In fact, that’s really why I called the book Thinking Better. Because I was sort of bouncing off that book of Kahneman’s, Thinking, Fast And Slow.
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Yes! In fact, that’s really why I called the book Thinking Better. Because I was sort of bouncing off that book of Kahneman’s, Thinking, Fast And Slow.
It's from this transcript.
It means "I was using that book [Kahneman's] as inspiration, then adding/creating my own ideas based on those concepts".
In a similar vein, you will read sentences such as "I was bouncing ideas off Joe" to mean you were telling Joe your ideas and asking for feedback.
There is another relevant meaning of "bouncing off" meaning to struggle to understand or fail to understand.
I was bouncing off Kant, so I switched to something less dense.