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The Poker Face of Wall Street by Aaron Brown Tied together a lot of concepts from my undergrad with my new work, and on top of it also Poker, which became one of my main analogies for life.
Fascinating story of a fabled trader from the bucket shops of mid-America in the Gaslight era to the roaring twenties on Wall Street.
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"1984" by George Orwell and "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter.
I read this every few months.
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After I read it, I had some of the best communication with romantic partners I ever had. I also had fights with friends transform into heartfelt conversations when I was practicing NVC, even though my friends weren't practicing it.
Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt. It's old but many of the lessons he teaches are still relevant today. It opened my eyes to the danger of only thinking about the things that are easily observable, and ignoring the "unseen" things. > The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely f…
This book is complete trash. You should find a better book.