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Every book Dennis Lynch recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Dennis Lynch has recommended or discussed 5 books on podcasts, as of June 1, 2021.
- Dennis Lynch has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of June 1, 2021.
- Those books came up in 1 episode, as of June 1, 2021.
- The 3 books Dennis Lynch has mentioned in the most episodes, as of June 1, 2021: Moneyball, The Money Game and Antifragile.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Dennis Lynch aired on June 1, 2021.
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Dennis Lynch discussed several influential books on investing, strategy, and market dynamics during his podcast appearances. He recommended George J. W. Goodman's The Money Game as an engaging starting point for students seeking perspective on public investing and market volatility. Lynch also recommended Michael Lewis's Moneyball, pointing to it as an exemplary non-investing book that demonstrates how to take a fresh analytical approach to conventional domains where others may have made mistakes. As part of a team book club, Lynch read The Ethical Algorithm by Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth, noting that the author subsequently visited to discuss the benefits of artificial intelligence and algorithmic approaches to financial markets. Furthermore, Lynch discussed Joel Greenblatt's The Little Book That Beats the Market as a foundational example of a rules-based strategy utilizing return-on-invested-capital and free-cash-flow calculations to evaluate large populations of stocks. He also referenced Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile to discuss frameworks involving disorder and ideas that might benefit from volatile environments, highlighting the power of language in financial theory.
Books recommended by Dennis Lynch
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Moneyball
Moneyball by Michael Lewis is a bestselling non-fiction book examining how the Oakland Athletics baseball team used data-driven analytics and mathematical models to compete against wealthier franchises.
Recommended“I mean, things like Moneyball is a great look at how to take a different approach or different analytical view of what other people have conventionally already sorted through and maybe made mistakes in the process.”
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The Money Game
The Money Game by George J.
Recommended“starting as far back as like The Money Game, which is a fun book from the 70s that sort of gives you a perspective on what it can be like to be a public investor and the volatility that goes along with that.”
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Antifragile
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb explores how certain systems, leaders, and organizations not only survive shocks and volatility but actually improve because of them.
Discussed“You think about the anti-fragile framework and the scene to lab. And, you know, I really like that. It shows the power of language to do. In that book, he talks about the fragile and what people think.”
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The Ethical Algorithm
The Ethical Algorithm by Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth explores the integration of fairness, privacy, and accountability into modern artificial intelligence and machine learning systems.
Book club“We all read a book called The Ethical Algorithm by Michael Kearns last year as part of our book club. He came in and we're talking about sort of the benefits of AI and or algorithmic approaches to the market.”
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The Little Book That Beats the Market
Discussed“I think not soon thereafter, maybe in the mid-2000s, Joel Greenblatt wrote a book called Little Book That Beats the Market that was sort of a very basic ROIC type of calculation or sorted large population stocks based on like ROIC-esque calculation and some sort of free cash flow-esque metric.”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dennis Lynch - Delivering Alpha in Adapting Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 228] | Invest Like the Best | 2021-06-01 | 5 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“If you think about the big short, which is an awesome story and awful time, but people certainly enjoy the story behind the willingness to be different of the people like Michael Burry, etc. The reality is they made a very specific bet”