Book Reviews

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Ryan Holiday – Ego is the Enemy, a book review

this book is about how our egos can help us, but ...”

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Ryan Holiday – The Obstacle Is The Way, a book review

this book is about reframing the way we view and...”

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Peter Attia – Outlive, a book review

this book is about outliving not others, or the...”

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James Kerr – Legacy, a book review

this book is about the legendary New Zealand ...”

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James Clear - Atomic Habits book review

this book is about breaking or building habits to improve ...”

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Ron Chernow - House of Morgan book review

this massive book is about the three Morgans who...”

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Peter Theil - Zero to One book review

this book is about changing people’s perspective about what...”

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Nassim Taleb – The Bed of Procrustes book review

this book is about how systems, governments and more try...”

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Nassim Taleb – Skin in the Game book review

this is probably Taleb’s best known work...

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Nassim Taleb – The Black Swan book review

this is a book all about the improbable end of a bell curve...

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Marcus Du Sautoy – Thinking Better book review

this book is all about shortcuts one can take through mathematics...”

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Marshall Goldsmith – What Got you Here Won’t Get you There in Sales book review

this is a follow-up from the hit book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” on management...

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Aliber & Kindleberger – Manias Panics and Crashes 7th ed. book review

this is as complete a history of, as the title claims, panics, manias and crashes in...

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Fred Schwed – Where are the customers Yachts? book review

this book is a major dig at Wall Street, what it represents, and...

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Anti-Fragile book review

this is the 4th of 5 books in the Incerto series by Nassim...

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William Kamkwamba – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind book review

this is a beautiful story of a very smart young man whose story illustrates the ...

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Joseph Michelli – The New Gold Standard book review

this is a blend of non-fiction/educational and advertising. That ...

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Tyler Cowen - The Great Stagnation book review

this is a very well thought out argument of why productivity has remained stagnate...

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Ray Kroc – Grinding it Out book review

this is the story of Ray Kroc’s journey from poor and aspiring to ...

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Robert Cialdini – Influence book review

this is Cialdini’s seminal work on influence. Specifically, how ...

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Daniel Kahneman – Thinking, fast and slow book review

this is the now very famous seminal work by Daniel Kahneman...

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Hyman Minsky – Can “It” Happen Again book review

this is a seminal piece of work by Hyman Minsky that probably ...

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Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments book review

this is the original self-help book. It’s hard to fathom someone ...

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John D Rockefeller - The Autobiography of John D Rockefeller book review

this is exactly what you think it is. Not having the insight of ...

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Gary Belsky – Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes book review

this is a very well written book of fallacies and heuristics...

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Thomas Schelling – The Strategy of Conflict book review

this is another great work by Schelling, this time on strategy...

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Confucius – The Analects book review

this is a severely misunderstood book about leading yourself. The central...

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Milton Freidman – Capitalism and Freedom book review

this is one of Milton Freidman’s most important works and covers...

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Jeff Goins - Real Artists Don't Starve book review

this book is Goins great attempt to curb the illusion that to be a ...

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James Collins - Built to Last book review

Built to Last is Collins's insight into how the greatest companies have built...

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Robin Sharma - The 5 AM Club book review

The sleeve of the book offers a warning where Sharma refers to...

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Steve Yastrow - Ditch The Pitch book review

This is Yastrow's method for building the skills and competencies to be...

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William MacAskill - Doing Good Better book review

This is a decision-making model for choosing how to invest in charitable causes...

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Grant Cardone - The 10X Rule book review

This is an exhaustive explanation of the effort and work required to get...

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No Country For Old Men
Cormac McCarthy - No Country For Old Men book review

This is a story of a guy tired of being down on his luck and so decides to...

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Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith – Wealth of Nations book review

This book is often referred to as the birth of modern economics...

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The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham – The Intelligent Investor book review

This is the book that every person who is enthralled with the stock market claims to have read...

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Robert Greene - The 48 Laws of Power book review

This is not, as it is often accused, a playbook on how to be evil...

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Ramit Sethi - I Will Teach You To Be Rich book review

Along with great financial advice, although much of the advice he gives is for...

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Niccolo Machiavellie - The Prince book review

This is a book that Machiavelli wrote while in exile to gain the favor of those currently in power...

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George Orwell – 1984 book review

This book is a Jeremiad (complaint) in the form of Orwell’s prediction of the dystopian...

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Dale Carnegie – How to Win Friends and Influence People

This book has been appreciated for around 85 years for many good reasons...

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Robert Kiyosaki – Rich Dad, Poor Dad book review

This is a story of Kiyosaki growing up with two father figures. The two...

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Dorie Clark - Entrepreneurial You book review

This book looks to show, as the subtitle clearly says...

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Michael Lewis - The New New Thing book review

This is yet another brilliant piece of storytelling by Michael Lewis about...

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Thomas Stanley - The Millionaire Next Door book review

This is the seminal work of Dr. Thomas Stanley which launched...

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Thomas Stanley, Stop Acting Rich book review

This is a follow-up to Stanley’s earlier book The Millionaire...

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Bill Walsh - The Score Takes Care of Itself book review

This book is the autobiography/manual of the former NFL 49ers...

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Morgan Housel - The Psychology of Money book review

This is not just a book about managing your money. It is a book about...

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Laurence Gonzalez – Deep Survival book review

The subtitle really sums it up. The book does a great...

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Amy Morin - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do book review

Morin lays out, in a non-judgemental way, what we all do...

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Hilary Kramer - The Little Book of Big Profits From Small Stocks book review

This book tries to make the case for low-priced stocks...

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness book review

This is the first of the Incerto series by Taleb...

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Chris Hadnagy - Human Hacking book review

This is an instruction manual for how to “hack”...

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Jeffrey Fox, How to Become A Rainmaker book review

The subtitle perfectly sums up what this book is about...

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James Stewart - Den of Thieves book review

Den of Thieves is a full recounting of the stock market insider...

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Michael Covel, The Little Book Of Trading book review

This edition of the Little Book series on finance is a point of view...

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Tren Griffin, Charlie Munger the Complete Investor book review

This book is a condensed and well-organized collection of...

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Peter Lynch - Learn to Earn book revie

Learn to Earn is the famous investor Peter Lynch’s third...

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Peter Lynch - Beating the Street book review

This is a follow-up to Lynch’s earlier book One Up on Wall...

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Peter Lynch - One Up on Wall Street book review

This is a book by one of the best money managers ever with...

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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations book review

This is almost seen as the Stoics ‘bible’...

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Thomas C. Schelling – Micromotives and Macrobehavior book review

Some very important concepts will help you understand...

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Viktor Frankl – Man’s Search for Meaning book review

Probably one of the most important books I’ve ever read...

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W. Chan Kim – Blue Ocean Strategy book review

This is a well written text book on creating a business strategy...

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Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and The Sea book review

This book is about a whole lot more than an old man going fishing...

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Tyler Cowen – Average Is Over book review

This is a very well written prediction of the future economy...

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Cass R. Sunstein – On Freedom book review

This compact little book is to books what concentrate is to...

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Chris Voss - Never Split the Difference book review

This is a masterclass in negotiation. There are...

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