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 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: 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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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: 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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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: 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: 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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Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: October 31th, 2017 Reading Time: Two weeks; audiobook This is an American horror story. Similar to Ioan Grillo’s El Narco, the narrative drags you into
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Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence by Rachel Sherman Rating: ★★★★ Date Finished: October 27th, 2017 Reading Time: A week By the time I finished reading the first page, I was overcome with the feeling that something was missing. Oh,
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