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Month: December 2017

Grocery Review

Tim December 31, 2017 Books, Food & Drink, Weekly Review No Comments
Grocery Review

Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlman Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: December 31st, 2017 Reading Time: Two days Grocery was the last book I read in 2017 and it was a formidable contender for top

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More Money Than God Review

Tim December 28, 2017 Books No Comments
More Money Than God Review

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: December 28th, 2017 Reading Time: Three years MMTG provides an insider’s take on the history of hedge funds using language

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Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings Review

Tim December 26, 2017 Books, Weekly Review No Comments
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings Review

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip Fisher Rating: ★★ Date Finished: December 26th, 2017 Reading Time: Three years, shelved for a long time This book is significant and its author is a legend. However, we’re kidding

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Move Fast and Break Things Review

Tim December 24, 2017 Books, Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Tech, Weekly Review No Comments
Move Fast and Break Things Review

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin Rating: ★★★ Date Finished: December 24th, 2017 Reading Time: An afternoon This book wasn’t what I was expecting. I guess that’s what

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The Predictors Review

Tim December 23, 2017 Books, Weekly Review No Comments
The Predictors Review

Rating: ★ Date Finished: December 23rd, 2017 Reading Time: An afternoon I’m not one to judge a book by its cover, but the frontage of The Predictors somehow managed to encapsulate everything wrong with America’s perception of tech in the

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Cryptoassets Review

Tim December 22, 2017 Books, Crypto, Tech, Weekly Review No Comments
Cryptoassets Review

Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar Rating: ★★★★ Date Finished: December 22nd, 2017 Reading Time: A day and a half My college roommate called me the other day. He told me

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Inside the Black Box Review

Tim December 18, 2017 Books, Weekly Review No Comments
Inside the Black Box Review

Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: December 18th, 2017 Reading Time: Three days I almost pulled the trigger on reading this book several times. I always held off due to tepid reviews. This was mostly a good thing only because, in the

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Lessons from the Pit Review

Tim December 12, 2017 Books, Weekly Review No Comments
Lessons from the Pit Review

Lessons from the Pit: A Successful Veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Shows Executives How to Thrive in a Competitive Environment Rating: ★★ Date Finished: December 12th, 2017 Reading Time: An afternoon A prototypical pit trader forms an unlikely[1] alliance

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Chaos Monkeys Review

Tim December 1, 2017 Books, Entrepreneurship, Tech, Weekly Review No Comments
Chaos Monkeys Review

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García Martínez Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: December 1st, 2017 Reading Time: Ten days; Audible Liar’s Poker—remember that book? I wonder how it was received in 1989. It’s now

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My Most Recent Books

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
liked it
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
by William Poundstone
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
really liked it
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
by Antony C. Sutton
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
it was ok
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
by Emanuel Derman
Slaughterhouse-Five
it was amazing
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
liked it
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
by Benjamin Wallace
Pulphead
liked it
Pulphead
by John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
really liked it
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
by Taylor Larimore

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