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https://niallferguson.substack.com/p/mileis-manmade-miracle

https://niallferguson.substack.com/p/mileis-manmade-miracle

Good. If I can get there this weekend I can get my last free battery from the battery club.

Here are his last two interviews. I hope I can be as insightful at that age. 2022: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lewis-lapham-money-and... 2023: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

His last interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWpm2NOF2Zw

Books in Charlie Munger's Library: Influence by Robert Cialdini, Einstein by Walter Isaacson, Go East Young Man (memoir of William O. Douglas), Eugene Meyer bio (Father of Kay Grah…

LQ was always a labor of love supported by a handful of Lapham's friends and supporters. He was recently still coming into the office everyday at 87 and was actively editing the jo…

Robert Ringer wrote the classic on this type of behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ringer It's called Winning Through Intimidation, and it is a very funny story of how …

He has been saying so for years. Here he is detailing it with Sam Harris in 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9aAYJhQz3A

One of the more harrowing accounts of 1918 is the famous short story by John O'Hara called The Doctor's Son, about a teenage boy driving a country doctor around during the 1918 flu…

Update: It's Al Capone's vault: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Al_Capone%27s_V...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23622865

Better link: https://archive.is/vfTjc

https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/ultimate-g...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230603063354/https://hardcores...

Religious organization of crowds: "The faithful are gathered together at appointed places and times, and through performances which are always the same, they are transported into a…

Surprised the author did not mention Louis Auchincloss, who is the obvious template for the excellent Diaz book. Auchincloss was fascinated by what money did to the wealthy class o…

Logan Allin - We only invest with repeat founders. This has saved us more money than anything else. It means you passed on FTX, Celsius Network, BlockFi, Bolt, and Fast.com.

This is fun to listen to for all its counterintuitive observations like not wanting to meet the founders. But like a lot of angels, it just ends up being a fish story without any r…

Tom Nicholas, an HBS professor, wrote a book about the history of VC (1) which spends the first chapter of the book talking about the whaling industry and how it created the ventur…