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Recently, nutritional pioneer Ray Peat died at the age of 86. I have several posts on this blog that reference his work. I'm not a strict follower, but I have borrowed some of his ideas. This post...
Read more →One of the other websites that I maintain is neilrogers.org, which I discussed a little bit in the 2014 post My Tribute to Radio's Neil Rogers. You don't need to read that post. The short version is...
Read more →A few weeks ago, I was searching for a podcast on Overcast and I stumbled across a title that I wasn't looking for but it grabbed my attention instantly. It was called the Internet History Podcast. ...
Read more →Although I actually started lifting weights on a regular basis after I moved to Florida in June 1994, I do recall going to the old Ohio State student weight room a few times during winter break of...
Read more →A great quick read. !Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions by Zachary Shoreis is both a history and a psychology book. Chapters are broken down by...
Read more →I love reading financial history and analysis. If you dig through the site archives, you will find reviews to many books that would bore most individuals. Not me. I love the stuff. So when John...
Read more →Because I loved the Amarillo Slim book, Amazon recommended that I might like this one as well. !The Man With the $100,000 Breasts The Man With the $100,000 Breasts is by Michael Konik. The best...
Read more →\\ 2016 UPDATE: I was SO WRONG about this book. Taubes is a fraud. See the critical review here. \\\ Remember that Top 5 Diet Books post I wrote back in July? All those books can take a HUGE step...
Read more →Back in April, I wrote the post An Urban Version of the 48 Laws of Power and broke my own rule about endorsing something before it even came out. Is the book The 50th Law as good as Robert Greene's...
Read more →After reading Guns, Germs and Steel, I decided to tackle Jared Diamond's follow-up book Collapse. !Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed...
Read more →I think my head is full. So much information was delivered across 500+ pages. If I retain 10% of the information, I'll be happy. !Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Guns, Germs, and...
Read more →Can a book on math and history be interesting? Yes. !The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow is a great background...
Read more →Yesterday I stumbled across a ridiculous article on Yahoo! Finance called Retirement Guide for 20- and 30-Somethings. It was provided by SmartMoney and sponsored by Fidelity. Gee, I wonder what their...
Read more →Earlier this week I got some good natured ribbing from friends about the fact that I'm testing non-mainstream fitness and nutritional ideas on myself. I've become a one man experiment in my quest to...
Read more →John Mauldin, who I consider one of my top financial mentors, recently referenced one of Alvin Toffler's books as a "groundbreaking". Good enough for me. !Revolutionary Wealth: How it will be created...
Read more →In prior posts, I have stated that I am a Short Term Bear and a Long Term Bull. But, I never really explained what I meant. The Short Term Bear part now appears obvious as the country moves from...
Read more →I love talking to people about investing. Listening to what people are doing and how they interpret the financial news is very helpful to me. Being a contrarian has been profitable to me. In the last...
Read more →I lived in San Diego during their pension crisis a few years ago. The story was confusing and never held any interest with me. Boring. Change the channel. So why would I read a book about the dull...
Read more →In the post Meet Nassim Nicholas Taleb, I dropped in this quote without adding any comments. > the good investment strategy is to put 90% of your money in the safest possible government securities...
Read more →Although there are several good sources on the Internet for financial and economic information, if I had to pick my favorite it would be John Mauldin's newsletter. The newsletter is free and is sent...
Read more →A pal of mine recently told me that I should read the 1922 investing classic: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. !Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Wiley Investment Classics) Reminiscences of a...
Read more →After reading this book, I'm convinced that humans are programmed to not learn from history. !Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of...
Read more →In my post Ignore My Financial Advice, one of my tips was to read financial history. One aspect of financial history I'd like to address is this baby-boomer nonsense that the stock market always goes...
Read more →One of my favorite genres of reading is financial history and nobody does a better job than Roger Lowenstein. !Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing Origins of the Crash: The Great...
Read more →Despite having one of the least attractive book covers I've ever seen, Just What I Said is an outstanding collection of economic columns from one of the best, Caroline Baum. !just-what-i-said Just...
Read more →A few people in the last month have asked me for financial advice. Giving financial advice is a delicate and risky endeavor. It's not like fitness or nutritional advice. If I tell an overweight...
Read more →Why the modern world can't seem to predict outlier events with extreme impact is the focus of the book The Black Swan. !The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable The Black Swan: The Impact...
Read more →My Thanksgiving reading marathon continues. !The Myths of Innovation The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun is interesting book which dispels many of the myths surrounding the invention process. The...
Read more →Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) was the hedge fund that imploded in 1998. It used massive amounts of leverage to generate high returns. As long as that leverage works in your favor, you can make...
Read more →I just finished reading a great book called The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle. It covers the history of the search...
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