book summary
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Fooled by Randomness Summary – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Fooled by Randomness” is an exploration of how humans chronically misinterpret luck as skill, patterns as laws, and anecdotes as evidence. Writing from the vantage point of a mathematical trader and probabilistic philosopher, Taleb argues that much of what we take to be causation is in fact the noisy outcome of probabilistic…
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Summary – Shoshana Zuboff
Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a landmark work of political economy and social critique that introduces a powerful framework to understand how major tech firms have forged a new, unregulated form of capitalism. Zuboff argues that we are living through a historical turning point, where a handful of technology corporations most notably…
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The Alchemy Of Finance Summary – George Soros
George Soros challenges the foundational assumptions of modern financial theory in “The Alchemy of Finance,” presenting his revolutionary theory of reflexivity that fundamentally reframes how markets operate. Rather than accepting the efficient market hypothesis that dominates academic finance, Soros argues that financial markets are inherently unstable and driven by the bidirectional relationship between market participants’…
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The Inevitable Summary – Kevin Kelly
The Inevitable presents a compelling and deeply thought out vision of the future, grounded in the belief that certain technological trends are not merely likely but inescapable. Kevin Kelly, co founder of Wired magazine and a prominent futurist, argues that while we cannot predict the specific products or companies of tomorrow, we can forecast the…
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Principles Summary – Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio’s Principles is a hybrid manifesto, part memoir and part management guide, built on a foundational thesis: success whether in life or business is the result of identifying and consistently applying a set of fundamental principles. Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest and most successful hedge funds, distills decades of…
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The Bitcoin Standard Summary – Saifedean Ammous
The Bitcoin Standard presents a sweeping, interdisciplinary case for why Bitcoin is not merely a technological innovation or speculative asset, but a necessary evolution in the history of money. Saifedean Ammous argues that sound money money that is hard to produce and politically neutral is essential to the advancement of civilization. In his view, Bitcoin…
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The Personal MBA Summary – Josh Kaufman
At its core, The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman argues that traditional business school education is neither necessary nor cost effective for acquiring practical business knowledge. Instead, individuals can attain a comprehensive and high quality business education through focused self study, deliberate practice, and real world application. Kaufman presents a self education framework and an…
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Crossing The Chasm Summary by Geoffrey Moore
Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm presents a seminal roadmap for technology startups seeking to scale beyond early adopters and into mass markets. The central thesis of the book is that there is a dangerous and often underestimated gap, “the chasm“, between early adopters of a new technology and the mainstream market. Startups that fail to…
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Founders at Work Summary | Stories of Startups Early Days by Jessica Livingston
Jessica Livingston’s Founders at Work offers an intimate, behind the scenes chronicle of the early stages of iconic tech startups through in depth interviews with over 30 influential founders, including Steve Wozniak (Apple), Paul Graham (Viaweb/Y Combinator), Caterina Fake (Flickr), and Max Levchin (PayPal). The core thesis is that successful startups are not born from…
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Book Summary: Launch by Jeff Walker
I first read this book nearly a decade ago when it was called “The Product Launch Formula” but decided to revisit the updated version to go over some principles about launching products online. Here is a write up of my notes from the book which is available on Amazon. tl;dr Launch Takeaways Launch Book Notes…
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Book Summary: Mastering The Market Cycle By Howard Marks
In crypto we live and die by the four year market cycle and I read this with the ambition to learn from someone who has decades of experience and seen cycles play out across multiple markets. Here is a write up of my notes from the book which is available on Amazon. tl;dr Mastering The…
