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It is accurate

Revisado: 12-22-23

It is always difficult to imitate accents. Getting a native speaker might help. Overall pleasant informative and well-written.

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Takes concentration

Revisado: 09-24-23

A superb book the raises question about what can be salvaged from H’s works. Although Wolin draws a bright line from H’s thought and less savoury political ideas, allot of post-war theological thinking has also relied on H’s framework. I am left with more questions than answers.

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One of the few good books in the area

Revisado: 01-26-23

This book deserves far more attention than it has received. However, if you move in circles where the name Richard Zeckhauser is used with considerable reverence, it will get your attention. The book by Dan Levy is based on a course that professor Richard Zeckhauser taught at Harvard for more than 40 years.

His primary focus is maintaining perspective and intellectual discipline under uncertainty.

David Ricardo made a fortune buying British government bonds on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo. The best investors have earned extraordinary returns by investing in the unknown and the unknowable (UU). This book extends their habits of mind to policy, personal decisions, careers and relationships. Taking these risks must be done on a reasoned and sensible basis.

The book's core theme is managing "ignorance," a widespread situation in the real world of investing, where even the possible states of the world are unknown. Traditional finance theory does not apply in UU situations. Strategic thinking, deducing what other investors might know, and assessing whether they might be deterred from investing, for example, due to fiduciary requirements, frequently point the way to profitability.

Most big investment payouts come when money combines complementary skills, such as developing real estate or new technologies. Those who lack these skills can look for "sidecar" investments that allow them to put their money alongside those they know to be both capable and honest. The reader is asked to consider several such investments. Central concepts in decision analysis, game theory, and behavioural decisions are deployed alongside accurate decisions to unearth successful strategies. These strategies are distilled into eighteen maxims. Learning to operate effectively in a UU world may be the most promising way to significantly bolster your prosperity, happiness and personal satisfaction with life.


it is a beautiful insight into the way of thinking of a brilliant, rational, analytical, and wise person. The best part is that the book applies not only to your work problems or school assignments but also to almost every aspect of your daily life — whenever you need to make a decision or plan for the future.

My recommendation is to read the book and re-read it. I have.

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Biography of Socrates

Revisado: 02-14-21

This little books seeks to challenge established assumptions a about Socrate’s life, appearance and social station by critically reviewing texts of the time. The author separates observation from slander, and establishes a historical portrait with the former.

Good book. Too short

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This book is really funny!

Revisado: 09-26-19

AA Gill understood his literary brilliance and could be understatedly modest about it. He is utterly original at each step, moralistic, offensive to those who are too comfortable and actively comforting those at the butt of an unjust offence. You don’t have to agree with a writer to admire them. Gill offended some people, and his writing is periodically offensive. Discarding his books and articles because it is regularly offensive is like saying you do not like a book because you find the plot disagreeable. He used offensiveness to frame issues and underscore peoples' morally absurd and selfish positions. At the same time, he recognized that he is guilty of the same offence. This book is a sample of responses of advice-seeking letters possed to him in the magazine Esquire. I was reading Esquire fifteen years before Gill wrote for the magazine, seeking advice and guidance in a much less complicated world. I the issues addressed (e.g., people who send naked photos before first dates, dressing like any given rapper) are mostly out of my ken. However, the human condition remains the same: dealing with heartbreak, sexual attraction, insignificance and meaninglessness.
Moreover, issues like anxieties associated with success are right on point. The writing is offensive, sensitive and moral - in a practical fashion. I would describe AA Gill as a post-modern St. Augustine able to confess, place all in perspective and move forward ... while ridiculing you for being a selfish and cruel idiot.

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James Grant at his best

Revisado: 08-25-19

I have been a long-time reader of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, and have always found his arguments compelling, even when I disagree with him.

This biography is thoughtful, evenhanded, and witty take on Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), a 19th-century British banker, editor-in-chief of the Economist, and a skilled economic thinker.

Grant assionately admires Bagehot as a “virtuoso writer on money and banking” whose output was “eclectic, fearless, aphoristic, prolific” and whose ideas remain respected today.

At the same time, Grant underscores Bagehot's flaws (hauteur, forgetful of mistakes and an unsucessful politician). Bagehot was born into a provincial banking dynasty; he went into one of the family businesses, the regional bank Stuckey’s.

It is a measure of Grant as a writter that Bagehot comes off charismatic as he is reputed to have been in life.

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Gopnik is always entertaining

Revisado: 06-25-19

Gopnik is a great writer and thinker. He defends liberal democratic institutions and vale’s with aplomb. Reading it is like what a coffee house conversation should be.

His arguments are balanced and sharpe, honestly acknowledging the criticism from different views.

Worth listening too and reading

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Art history light

Revisado: 09-26-16

The book is a wonderful story about a printer under the spell of a master work. The book does a great job of explaining art history and collecting practices of the past. The passion of the main figure speaks to contemp

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An insight into trading

Revisado: 10-02-12

What made the experience of listening to Reminiscences of a Stock Operator the most enjoyable?

Great literature offers insight into the human condition. Although trading, in markets, streets and financial markets, is a basic of civilization, little has been written about it. This book is timeless because it explores the discipline and focus required to make a living trading.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

The narrative helped me to to recall the behaviour, discipline and nerve necessary to make successful trades. There is nothing like it and I never want to do it again. The book outlines the mindset necessary to run a scalping business in boarding school, the street corner or on the trading floor. It is a rare, and inglorious state of mind that has is almost never explored in literature. In Shakespeare, Shylock is an impoverished narrative of the mindset of a merchant trader. This book goes beyond the cardboard cutouts of merchant trader, and looks at the processe and human relationships necessary to sustain this vein of life. In this sense, it is a classic.

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Getting Through the Book

Revisado: 05-07-12

When I was in grade nine, I was told by my grandfather that this was one of the best written books in the English language. I began to read it on the bus, its corners became tattered as I poured over the words. I memorized passages and adopted its language in my high-school essays and was promptly reprimanded by my english teacher.

I never managed to place the book in a narrative that I could describe to myself.

This recording helped me get through the book in its entirety and absorb it as a narrative.

Great book, great reading, read experience.

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