augustabound Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 Here are seven of the best books I read this year ... https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2015/08/summer-reads-for-the-curious-mind/ Wow, you read 44 books in 6 months! I am envious. Thanks for listing your top 7. I am always looking for a good read. He read 161 in 2013. https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/05/remembering-what-you-read/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTermView Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Birds of Prey - Boeing vs. Airbus by Matthew Lynn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiChiLoh Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Kraken - China mieville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffmori7 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Kraken - China mieville haha, I read that one 2 years ago. One of the strangest novel I have read in recent years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTermView Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Where are the Customers' Yachts? by Fred Schwed Instant favourite. Yeah, this was a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTermView Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Zero to One by Peter Thiel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricSchleien Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATLValue Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Zero to One by Peter Thiel I liked this book, definitely a different perspective than I'm used to reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augustabound Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Zero to One by Peter Thiel I liked this book, definitely a different perspective than I'm used to reading Same here. I love the idea of aiming for a monopoly. Not the usual, "If we can gain 2% of that $2B market share........", along with the other dozen competitors doing the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATLValue Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I'm about half way through Charles Koch's new book "Good Profit". It is a very interesting read and definitely worthwhile for anyone who is considering starting their own business Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelson Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 This thread is great for people looking for reading ideas. My library is going to be busy finding me books over the next few months. Thanks guys. I just finished Jimmy, the autobiography of Jim Pattison, one of Canada's richest men. He's an interesting character. It's lacking in a few areas, partially because he wrote it in 1987 and hasn't updated it since. But the stories of when he first started building his empire in the 1970s are quite interesting. I'd recommend it for anyone who's interested in conglomerates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Am rereading John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. Thanks, Lance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZenaidaMacroura Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Competition Demystified by Greenwald It's been a while since I've read a business book that was engrossing AND doesn't whiff of survivorship bias. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccplz Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Seems like everyone is reading books about business (which I guess should be expected on a board like this). A few of my favorite books are about investing (Margin of Safety, The Most Important Thing etc.), but I generally find books about business to be a waste of time. I prefer to read about history and politics. Currently working through Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme. Interesting insight into the personalities during the last 50 years of the Roman Republic, as well as human nature in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feynmanresearch Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 I'm about half way through Charles Koch's new book "Good Profit". It is a very interesting read and definitely worthwhile for anyone who is considering starting their own business I was disappointed with the book.I thought it had too many platitudes and basically a lot of stuff that is common sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marazul Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Read it a while ago, but I think The Frackers should be a book that people would like reading given the current O&G situation. It gives an idea of the way the domestic O&G business started, who are the characters, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratiman Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 I'm waiting for Thiel to write the book about his hedge fund, One to Zero. BAM! Recently finished The eboys, about the Benchmark VC firm. Great stories from the last bubble about firms like Webvan, Priceline, and eBay. If you skip most of the book and just read the stories about Webvan / Priceline / eBay , it's a pretty great book. I'd like to read the book about Priceline, that sounds like a great story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTermView Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Zero to One by Peter Thiel I liked this book, definitely a different perspective than I'm used to reading Same here. I love the idea of aiming for a monopoly. Not the usual, "If we can gain 2% of that $2B market share........", along with the other dozen competitors doing the same thing. Yeah, I liked the way he looked at Google from different angles: But suppose we say that Google is primarily an advertising company [as opposed to a search engine company with a monopoly]. That changes things. The U.S. search engine advertising market is $17 billion annually. Online advertising is $37 billion annually. The entire U.S. advertising market is $150 billion. And global advertising is a $495 billion market. So even if Google completely monopolized U.S. search engine advertising, it would own just 3.4% of the global advertising market. From this angle, Google looks like a small player in a competitive world. What if we frame Google as a multifaceted technology company instead? ... [pages 26 to 27] Now I'm reading How Asia Works by Joe Studwell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boilermaker75 Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 I just finished Alexander Hamilton. I have read a lot about the American revolution, but I new the least about Alexander Hamilton. This book sure changed that! I just started Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Hill Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 Post captain (Patrick O'Brian) Planning to read Hamilton next (Washington, also by Ron chernow, was excellent) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewbieD Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Just read Investing: The Last Liberal Art by Robert Hagstrom. Now Reading a fiction for once - the follow-up to Shantaram. Looking forward to Strategic Risk Taking by Aswath Damodaran arriving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 50centdollars Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Red Notice....awesome book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTermView Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Reading: The King of California by Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman Recently finished: How Asia Works by Joe Studwell Union Pacific: The Reconfiguration by Maury Klein The Gervais Principle by Venkatesh Rao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamecock-YT Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Just finished: All the Devils Are Here On Deck: Aircraft Finance textbook Devil Take the Hindmost: a History of Financial Speculation - Edward Chancellor Do No Harm - Henry Marsh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tede02 Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 I read The Frackers last month. It's been recommended by others. I would also highly recommend it. Non-technical. Reads more like a good story. You'll learn about the history of the oil industry and how wildcatters operate. Also a lot of good historical info on Continental, Cheniere, and Chesapeake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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