Two must-read books that I've come across over the last month...
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Two must-read books that I've come across over the last month...


1. A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes by Peter Bevelin (also available in Kindle format HERE)

2. The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World by Mark Spitznagel (also available in Kindle format HERE)





- Alain De Botton On The Stoics
Link to article: The Great Philosophers 2: The Stoics ‘Stoicism’ was a philosophy that flourished for some 400 years in Ancient Greece and Rome, gaining widespread support among all classes of society. It had one overwhelming and highly practical...

- Circle Of Competence...
"The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins. Nothing more clearly separates a vulgar from a superior mind, than the confusion in the first between the little that it truly knows, on the one...

- Inequality, Free Markets, And Crashes - By Nassim Taleb & Mark Spitznagel
Link to: Inequality, Free Markets, and CrashesNassim Taleb and Mark Spitznagel talk about how government intervention postpones the inevitable. Mark Spitznagel and Nassim Taleb started the first equity tail-hedging firm in 1999. Since then these...

- Learning From Sherlock Holmes – By Jana Vembunarayanan
Found via The Big Picture. Recently I read the book A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes. If you want to improve your thinking then you should read this book. In this book the author has distilled Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes into bite-sized principles...

- A Few Lessons From Sherlock Holmes
Farnam Street with an excellent post on Peter Bevelin’s new book, A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes. Nassim Taleb also wrote a review on Amazon of the book, in which he said: "We Sherlock Holmes fans, readers, and secret imitators need a map. Here...



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