Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2017-01-03
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Dan Egan: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #18
Dan Egan – Designing Better Decisions - [Invest Like the Best, EP.18]
My guest today is Dan Egan, who is the managing director of Behavioral Finance and Investing at Betterment. In this wide-ranging role, Dan has his hands is most of the ways that Betterment interacts with its clients and how it invests their money.
Dan Egan recommended The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, and discussed How To Make People Like You: Read People Like A Book, Master Small Talk, Develop Influence and Charisma, to Learn How to Talk to Anyone, Win Friends and Build Meaningful Relationships. by Sebastian Clark, Ubik by Philip K. Dick, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Against the gods by Peter L. Bernstein, and Capital Ideas by Peter L. Bernstein.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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How To Make People Like You: Read People Like A Book, Master Small Talk, Develop Influence and Charisma, to Learn How to Talk to Anyone, Win Friends and Build Meaningful Relationships.
Discussed“One of the ones that I read recently that I really, really loved was in this book, Your Life and People Like You, I think it was, which it's a book of short stories.”
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Ubik
Discussed“I mean, I actually went after, at the conference you mentioned, Ubik, went and read it. And it really reminded me of... What did you think? It was really good.”
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The Three-Body Problem
Recommended“The Three Body Problem is this book by, I'm going to mangle the name, Xixin Liu, C-I-X-I-N-L-I-U, who's a science fiction writer that's coming out of China right now.”
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Ender's Game
Discussed“And there's another intelligent species out there. This comes through in things like Ender's Game and everything. Like, how do we get over nationalistic tendencies and tribal tendencies and everything?”
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Against the gods
Discussed“But then really got into like learning about the social construct of markets and, um, the history of them, like the, um, um, capital ideas and against the gods books that talk about the history.”
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Capital Ideas
Discussed“But then really got into like learning about the social construct of markets and, um, the history of them, like the, um, um, capital ideas and against the gods books that talk about the history.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Like, I love long form, but at the same time, there was a book, Sum, just S-U-M. It's like a bathroom book.”