Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2022-05-25
Books mentioned on #596: Edward O. Thorp, A Man For All Markets — Beating Blackjack and Roulette, Beating the Stock Market, Spotting Bernie Madoff Early, and Knowing When Enough is Enough
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Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Beat the Market
Beat the Market by Edward O.
Discussed“now Fisher black and Myon scholes read beat the market which was sort of the launching pad for me into finding this model and it was also a launching pad for them and they they saw how to improve the ideas and beat the market”
Where to get it
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman explores the dual systems of the human mind that drive how people think, make choices, and commit cognitive errors.
Recommended“it ties into a famous book Thinking Fast and Slow”
Where to get it
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The Wolf at the Door
Michael J.
Recommended“he has a book called the wolf at the door which fairly recent which basically explains the things that I learned in his political science course a few months ago”
Where to get it
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio is an economic and historical analysis that examines the rise and fall of major empires through long-term cycles of debt, economic shifts, and geopolitical power.
Recommended“and one of your previous interviewees Ray Delio has a book that I would I think is very well worth reading even though it's a tough slog and maybe i change the writing a bit but you know it's a real contribution to thinking about the crisis that we're going through now and it talks about the changing world order”
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Catch-22
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is a satirical World War II novel centered on the bureaucratic absurdities and ironic paradoxes of military life.
Discussed“Joseph Hower wrote this famous book C 22 uh of which they made a movie way back maybe 50 years ago”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“he is the author of the bestseller beat the dealer which transformed the game of Blackjack”
“his subsequent book beat the market co-authored with Sheen tasu influenced Securities markets around the globe”
“he's also the author of a man forall markets subtitle from Las Vegas to Wall Street how I beat the dealer and the market”
“and so that became the book beat the market and that launched both of us into separate businesses”