Episode · My First Million · 2023-10-19
Books mentioned on This Hedge Fund Manager Got Away With Insider Trading… Then Made Billions
Episode 509: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.
Shaan Puri discussed Black edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar, Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman, The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and others, When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein, and The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Black edge
Discussed“so I'm reading this book about Steve Cohen do you know who Steve Cohen is”
Where to get it
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Sapiens
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari is a sweeping narrative that traces the evolutionary and historical development of the human species from prehistoric bands to modern civilizations.
Discussed“so basically in the book sapiens the author hypothesizes that hunter gatherers you know we're talking pre- civilization worked something like 30 hours a week and spent a lot of time just being idle with family”
Where to get it
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Margin of Safety
Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman is a well-known investing book focusing on risk-averse value investment strategies.
Discussed“he's like I'm reading this book margin of safety and in it he writes about this famous bubble that happened that you probably haven't heard of”
Where to get it
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The Smartest Guys in the Room
The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind is an investigative book detailing the rise and corporate collapse of Enron.
Discussed“and this is why there's a book called the smartest guys in the room because apparently everyone was like oh they'll be fine they're the smartest guys in the room”
Where to get it
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When Genius Failed
When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein is a gripping work of narrative non-fiction chronicling the dramatic rise and catastrophic collapse of the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management.
Discussed“and this is why there's a book called the smartest guys in the room because apparently everyone was like oh they'll be fine they're the smartest guys in the room”
Where to get it
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The 4-Hour Body
The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss is a comprehensive, data-driven guide to physical optimization, covering unconventional health experiments, fat loss, and muscle building.
Discussed“Tim Ferris did that a little bit with the 4our body where he tried things that weren't crazy but he did a really good job of explaining it and making that part of his identity”
Where to get it
