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More from @james_d_baird

17 Jan
You should read the shareholder letters of Warren Buffett.

But you probably don’t have time.

So here is a mega 🧵 with a running summary as I read and take notes.
You can get his letters here from 1965-2014: amazon.com/dp/0615975070/…
What makes Buffett so special?

He’s the greatest capital allocator alive today—perhaps the greatest in history.

He’s not sexy. He invests in railroads, insurance, candy, jewelry, & ice cream.

Yet he’s posted increasingly great returns with compounding interest for decades.
Read 22 tweets
7 Dec 20
Twitter supercharged my learning this year.

Here’s a mega 🧵 of my favorite ideas from my favorite thinkers:
Tail events drive the world. Expose your systems to consistent stress to make them antifragile. @nntaleb amazon.com/Antifragile-Th…
Play wealth games, not status games. Utilize leverage with media and code. @naval
Read 16 tweets
14 Nov 20
You should read The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming.

But you probably don’t have time.

So here is a 🧵 with a running summary as I read and take notes on the book.
You can get the book here: amazon.com/dp/1732265178/…
Your work process is only as valuable as the goals you’ve designed it to achieve.

“It was not the number of operations done that mattered; it was, as it were, the number of of micro-Noble prizes I computed.”
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