In his book Tribe of Mentors, Tim Ferris interviews various domain experts with just 11 good questions. These are good questions you could ask anyone to start to get an idea of what kind of person they are: What are 1 to 3 books that have greatly influenced your life? What purchase of $100 or […]
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Written by Chris Miller, Putinomics focuses on power and money in Russia in recent history. Specifically, how Vladimir Putin ended up getting to where he is today from the fall of the Soviet Union. Three goals of government. Centralize power, Prevent discontent, and have private business drive economy without sacrificing first two. Hyperinflation and chaos
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The Wisdom of Solomon, also known as the Book of Wisdom, was removed by the Protestants but was kept in by the Catholic Church. It’s one of the books of Apocrypha, and although was believed to have been written by king Solomon, it seems it was written instead by friends of Solomon in his honor.
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Some people appear wealthy but aren’t. Some people are wealthy but don’t appear to be so. There seems to be a different set of characteristics when looking at the people who do and don’t have it. The millionaire next door describes the qualities and differences between the haves and have nots. -“Big hat no cattle”
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I’m typically not an advocate for self help books as for the most part what you could learn from those books comes naturally by doing the things you are supposed to do. By then, intuitively many of the comments from self help books become second nature. However, I have found this book by Mark Manson
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Benjamin Franklin is quite literally, a polymath. He was a writer, editor, politician, scientist, Founding Father of the US, drafter, signer of the Declaration of Independence. He is now the face of the $100 US bill, which shows his significance in US history, having quite literally founded the country. Poor Richard’s Almanack is curiously written
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Imagine meeting anyone and being able to read the person in only 6 minutes by focusing on their body language from head to toe. In his book Six-minute X-ray, Chris Hughes lays out how to profile anyone. The book includes information that was designed for US intelligence agencies and covert operations. Let’s see what he
In the book The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, professor Scott Galloway goes into an in-depth analysis of for large US companies: Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple. He is a professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business and has founded past successful businesses that were acquired,
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Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits Philip Fisher A lot of the investing books just looks at the numbers for investing into publicly traded companies. If it were as easy as just figuring out how to calculate discounted cashflow, then why isn’t everyone who went to business school rich from the stock market? I only have
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How to win friends and influence people When I went to business school, this was the favorite book and considered one of the must reads. Many of the students would learn it but then use the book in a manipulative manner. Hence, I resisted the temptation to read the book until years later juts to
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