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Charlie Munger on Avoiding Computers (LINK) REPLAY: Ask-Me-Anything Session with Guy Spier (LINK) Related book: The Education of a Value InvestorDavid Tepper: Good time to take money off the table (video) (LINK) Aswath Damodaran: What's...
- Bill Gates Reviews Jared Diamond's Book "the World Until Yesterday"
Diamond starts with the premise that human beings were hunter-gatherers for millions of years, and only settled down when we began farming about 10,000 years ago. So most of our genetic selection has been done in a hunter-gatherer environment. He argues...
- "the Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race" – 1987 Article By Jared Diamond
Link to article: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth isn't the center of the universe but merely one of billions of heavenly bodies. From...
- Jared Diamond: What’s Your Consumption Factor?
TO mathematicians, 32 is an interesting number: it’s 2 raised to the fifth power, 2 times 2 times 2 times 2 times 2. To economists, 32 is even more special, because it measures the difference in lifestyles between the first world and the developing...
- How To Get Rich - A Talk By Jared Diamond
.....we can extract from human history a couple of principles. First, the principle that really isolated groups are at a disadvantage, because most groups get most of their ideas and innovations from the outside. Second, I also derive the principle of...
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Lunch with the FT: Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond is the guru of collapse. Collapse is the title of one of the books that have made him a world-famous academic. It is a theme that captures the Zeitgeist: markets have collapsed, banks have collapsed and confidence, even in the capitalist system itself, has collapsed.
Diamond’s celebrated book – which added to the reputation he earned through Guns, Germs and Steel, a Pulitzer prize-winner about why some societies triumph over others – sought to discover what makes civilisations, many at their apparent zenith, crumble overnight. The Maya of Central America, the stone-carving civilisation of Easter Island, and the Soviet Union – all suddenly shattered.
The question lurking in Diamond’s work is: could we be next? Could the great skyscrapers of Manhattan
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Related books:
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Charlie Munger on Avoiding Computers (LINK) REPLAY: Ask-Me-Anything Session with Guy Spier (LINK) Related book: The Education of a Value InvestorDavid Tepper: Good time to take money off the table (video) (LINK) Aswath Damodaran: What's...
- Bill Gates Reviews Jared Diamond's Book "the World Until Yesterday"
Diamond starts with the premise that human beings were hunter-gatherers for millions of years, and only settled down when we began farming about 10,000 years ago. So most of our genetic selection has been done in a hunter-gatherer environment. He argues...
- "the Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race" – 1987 Article By Jared Diamond
Link to article: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth isn't the center of the universe but merely one of billions of heavenly bodies. From...
- Jared Diamond: What’s Your Consumption Factor?
TO mathematicians, 32 is an interesting number: it’s 2 raised to the fifth power, 2 times 2 times 2 times 2 times 2. To economists, 32 is even more special, because it measures the difference in lifestyles between the first world and the developing...
- How To Get Rich - A Talk By Jared Diamond
.....we can extract from human history a couple of principles. First, the principle that really isolated groups are at a disadvantage, because most groups get most of their ideas and innovations from the outside. Second, I also derive the principle of...