Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2018-05-15
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Tren Griffin: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #87
Tren Griffin – Pulling the Thread - [Invest Like the Best, EP.87]
My guest this week is a bundle of curiosity, and that is one of the nicest things I could say about someone. For several years, Tren Griffin has been writing a weekly blog post that highlights things he has learned from various investors, businesspeople, musicians, comedians, and more.
Tren Griffin discussed The alchemy of finance by George Soros and Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and others. Patrick O'Shaughnessy recommended Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The alchemy of finance
Discussed“And so Michael gave me the alchemy of finance, which is a long ways for Munger, but he gave me that book and that just set a fire under me to said, I got to read more books.”
Where to get it
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Getting to Yes
Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton is a foundational negotiation classic developed out of the Harvard Negotiation Project that teaches principled negotiation strategies focused on mutual gains rather than positional bargaining.
Discussed“So one of the key things in life is Roger Fisher's Getty DS book has a concept called Best Alternative to Negotiated Agreement. And basically what he says is if you're negotiating for something and you only have one choice, you're screwed.”
Where to get it
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Seeing Like a State
Seeing Like a State by James C.
Recommended“Have you ever read the book Seeing Like a State by George Scott? No. You should definitely check it out. So it's all about this concept of, I think it's a Greek term, metis, which is local knowledge.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Many people listening will have read Will Thorndyke's book, The Outsiders, and be familiar with some of these kind of general stories.”
“And then later, the other books, Dan Wright came out and the Almanac book came out. But really, I want to understand the way he thought because he was such a critical thinker.”
“And then later, the other books, Dan Wright came out and the Almanac book came out. But really, I want to understand the way he thought because he was such a critical thinker.”
“That's the title of his book is that. And just the mentoring time that this one man gave to me, Bill Gates Sr. Lessons From. And just hours and hours of lunches and breakfasts and sessions where I was able to talk and he was able to come back and just sometimes him just listening to me.”