Title: Principles Recommendation: 8.4/10 Summary: Bridgewater Associates has a loud reputation in the workplace, candid, transparent, and argumentative. These are deliberate principles that guide the organization, as well as the personal life of Ray Dalio. Regardless of whether you like Ray’s principles, deliberately considering principles to guide your own life is an immensely valuable exercise….
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Creativity, Inc.
Title: Creativity, Inc. Recommendation: 8.6/10 Summary: University of Utah graduate Ed Catmull, heralded as the “father of computer graphics”, shares the first-hand account of Pixar’s development, growth, and journey to success. From working closely with Steve Jobs, who was a major stakeholder and owner of Pixar for many years, to the numerous pivots they had…
The Last Save Investment
Title: The Last Safe Investment Recommendation: 9/10 Summary: There are three books I read every year, this book is one of them. It is the equivalent of the red pill for general financial literacy. Instead of focusing on obtaining an arbitrary dollar amount, it focuses on investing in the one asset you have full control…
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Title: A Random Walk Down Wall Street Recommendation: 8.4/10 Summary: Mathematicians call a sequence of numbers produced by a random process as a “random walk.” Dr. Malkiel, an economist at Princeton, argues that asset prices show signs of a random walk. Market timers risk missing the infrequent large sprint that are big contributors to overall…
Man’s Search For Meaning
Thanks to a challenge from a friend, I’ll be writing a book review every day in April. Is this an April fools’ heist? Only time will tell. **I have a long-standing offer for anyone that writes consecutively for 30 days in a publicly viewable place, website, medium.com, etc. that I’ll buy you a reasonably priced book…
