Money and Finance
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s
Money, Blood and Revolution
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
Probability: A Very Short Introduction
The Essential Guide to Telecommunications (4th Edition) (used copies go for $0.01)
The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society
- Links
If you have haven't listened to Shane Parrish's interview with Jason Zweig yet, I highly recommend it. Jason mentions a number of great books (fiction and nonfiction) in his interview, which can be found in the show notes. For those that are interested...
- Bill Gates: The Best Books I Read In 2014
Philanthropist Bill Gates recommends five favorite books he read this year. Link to: Bill Gates: the best books I read in 2014 .......... The books: Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street Capital in the Twenty-First...
- Links
Michael Lewis: Occupational Hazards of Working on Wall Street (LINK) Anyone who works in finance will sense, at least at first, the pressure to pretend to know more than he does. It’s not just that people who pick stocks, or predict the future...
- Seneca's Moral Letters To Lucilius
A good online collection of Seneca's letters... Link to: Moral letters to Lucilius Letter 2 is one of my favorites. I've put up a couple of quotes on the blog before, from a slightly different translation. Here are a couple of those quotes...
- Deliberate Practice: Becoming A Better Investor
Tariq at the Street Capitalist blog had a great post on a frequent topic on this blog: deliberate practice. He had some great thoughts on applying deliberate practice to investing, which are pasted below. I gave a presentation on this topic last March....
Money and Finance
Latest book purchases...
Like some others that probably follow this blog, I tend to be in the habit of buying more books than I can read. Shane over at Farnam Street had a great post on reading where he discussed some of his habits as well, which I recommend reading, HERE.
So for those who are interested, here are my latest purchases, which I've yet to read but hope to at some point in the not too distant future (the one exception is Greenblatt's book which I read in paperback several years ago, and just wanted to add the Kindle format to my library for the latest re-reading):
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s
Money, Blood and Revolution
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
Probability: A Very Short Introduction
The Essential Guide to Telecommunications (4th Edition) (used copies go for $0.01)
The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society
- Links
If you have haven't listened to Shane Parrish's interview with Jason Zweig yet, I highly recommend it. Jason mentions a number of great books (fiction and nonfiction) in his interview, which can be found in the show notes. For those that are interested...
- Bill Gates: The Best Books I Read In 2014
Philanthropist Bill Gates recommends five favorite books he read this year. Link to: Bill Gates: the best books I read in 2014 .......... The books: Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street Capital in the Twenty-First...
- Links
Michael Lewis: Occupational Hazards of Working on Wall Street (LINK) Anyone who works in finance will sense, at least at first, the pressure to pretend to know more than he does. It’s not just that people who pick stocks, or predict the future...
- Seneca's Moral Letters To Lucilius
A good online collection of Seneca's letters... Link to: Moral letters to Lucilius Letter 2 is one of my favorites. I've put up a couple of quotes on the blog before, from a slightly different translation. Here are a couple of those quotes...
- Deliberate Practice: Becoming A Better Investor
Tariq at the Street Capitalist blog had a great post on a frequent topic on this blog: deliberate practice. He had some great thoughts on applying deliberate practice to investing, which are pasted below. I gave a presentation on this topic last March....