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- Book Review: The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George SpaffordGene Kim’s DevOps novel: an IT manager has 90 days to save a failing project — The Goal for the software age.
- Book Review: The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff CoxGoldratt’s business novel about a plant manager with 90 days to save his factory — the Theory of Constraints disguised as a page-turner.
- Book Review: Switch by Chip Heath and Dan HeathThe Heath brothers on change: direct the Rider, motivate the Elephant, shape the Path — the psychology of making change actually stick.
- Book Review: Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan HeathChip and Dan Heath’s SUCCESs framework: why some ideas survive and others die — the psychology of sticky communication.
- Book Review: Start with Why by Simon SinekSimon Sinek’s Golden Circle: why great leaders inspire from the inside out — and why people don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
- Book Review: High Output Management by Andrew GroveIntel’s legendary CEO on the craft of management: leverage, task-relevant maturity, and why a manager’s output is the output of their organization.
- Book Review: Measure What Matters by John DoerrJohn Doerr’s OKR system — the goal-setting method behind Google, Intel, and Bono’s ONE campaign — explained through the case studies that made it famous.
- Book Review: Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley HopeHow a Wharton grad stole $4.5 billion from Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund with Goldman’s help — the 1MDB heist, brilliantly reported.
- Book Review: Red Notice by Bill BrowderBill Browder went to Russia to get rich, exposed a $230 million fraud, lost his lawyer to murder — and became Putin’s number one enemy. A true financial thriller.
- Book Review: The Biggest Bluff by Maria KonnikovaA psychology PhD learns poker from a Hall of Famer to study luck versus skill — the best book on decision-making under uncertainty since Thinking, Fast and Slow.
- What Is a Value Trap?A value trap is a stock that looks cheap on metrics like P/E but keeps falling because the business is deteriorating. Learn the warning signs and how to avoid them.
- What Is After-Hours Trading?After-hours trading lets you buy and sell stocks outside the 9:30am-4pm ET session, but thin liquidity, wider spreads, and sharp swings make it risky for retail investors.
- What Is Preferred Stock?Preferred stock is a hybrid security paying fixed dividends like a bond while representing ownership like a stock, with priority over common shares but not bonds.
- What Is a Bond Ladder?A bond ladder staggers bond maturities across years so some money is always coming due. It manages interest-rate risk and delivers steady, predictable income.
- What Is a Prospectus?A prospectus is the legal disclosure behind every mutual fund, ETF, and IPO. Most investors ignore it, but five minutes on the fee table can save you money.
- What Is a Limit Order?A limit order sets the price you will buy or sell at, nothing more. Learn how limit orders work, when they protect you, and why they sometimes never fill.
- Who Is Nick Sleep?Nick Sleep co-founded Nomad Investment Partners with Qais Zakaria in 2001 and compounded at 21% a year by buying companies that share their scale economies with customers.
- What Is the Bid-Ask Spread?The bid-ask spread is the gap between a stock’s buy and sell price. Learn why it exists, what a wide spread warns, and how to minimize it.
- What Is a Market Order?A market order buys or sells immediately at the best available price. Learn how it works, when to use one, and what slippage can cost you.
- Who Is David Einhorn?David Einhorn founded Greenlight Capital in 1996 and made his name shorting Allied Capital and Lehman Brothers. A look at his career, style, and results.
- What Is Short Selling?Short selling means borrowing shares and selling them, hoping to buy them back cheaper later. Here’s how it works, why investors short, and the real risks.
- What Is a Margin Call?Your broker demands more money when a leveraged account falls too far. How margin loans work, what triggers the call, and how to avoid one.
- Who Is Terry Smith?Terry Smith built Fundsmith on a three-step formula: buy good companies, don’t overpay, and do nothing. Inside the record, the philosophy, and the risks.
- What Is Survivorship Bias in Investing?Survivorship bias means studying only the winners and ignoring everyone who failed. Here’s how it distorts investing — and how to see through it.
- What Is a Stock Buyback?A stock buyback is when a company repurchases its own shares. Here’s why companies do it, how it affects shareholders, and when it’s a red flag.
- Book Review: Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron ChernowChernow’s sweeping biography of John D. Rockefeller: Standard Oil’s ruthless rise, the 1911 breakup, and the devout Baptist who became America’s first billionaire and gave most of it away.
- Book Review: Everyday Millionaires by Chris HoganChris Hogan’s 10,000-millionaire Ramsey study demolishes the inheritance myth: most millionaires are ordinary earners who avoided debt and invested steadily for decades.
- Book Review: Retire Young Retire Rich by Robert KiyosakiKiyosaki’s leverage playbook for early retirement: earned, portfolio, and passive income, and how he and Kim went from nothing to financially free in under ten years.
- Book Review: Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten T. HansenCollins and Hansen studied companies that outperformed their industries 10-to-1 through chaos — and found greatness is a choice: fanatic discipline, empirical creativity, productive paranoia.
- Book Review: Buffettology by Mary Buffett and David ClarkMary Buffett and David Clark decode Warren Buffett’s investment method — the tenets, the math, and the case studies — in the most practical guide to Buffett-style value investing ever written.
- Book Review: Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill CarrTwo longtime Amazon executives reveal the mechanisms behind the machine: six-page memos, bar-raiser hiring, input metrics, and working backwards from the press release.
- Book Review: The Innovator’s Solution by Clayton ChristensenChristensen and Raynor’s sequel to The Innovator’s Dilemma: how established companies become disruptors themselves, from competing against non-consumption to the RPV framework for disruptive growth.
- Book Review: Amazon Unbound by Brad StoneBrad Stone’s sequel to The Everything Store covers Amazon’s imperial decade — AWS, Alexa, Whole Foods, HQ2, antitrust — and Bezos’s exit. The definitive account of 2012–2021.
- Book Review: Built to Sell by John WarrillowWarrillow’s fable about an agency owner who learns his profitable business is unsellable — and the rebuild that makes it thrive without him. A must-read for owner-operators.
- Book Review: Profit First by Mike MichalowiczMike Michalowicz flips the profit formula: take profit first, then run the business on what’s left. A behavioral cash system for owners whose businesses earn money but never keep any.
- Book Review: Tools of Titans by Tim FerrissTim Ferriss distills hundreds of interviews with world-class performers into tactics for health, wealth, and wisdom. A review of what actually works.
- Book Review: The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm GladwellThe dream of precision bombing, the Norden bombsight, and how a humane idea curdled into the Tokyo firebombing. A review of Gladwell’s shortest book.
- Book Review: Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier HanssonBasecamp’s Jason Fried and DHH on building a profitable business without the startup playbook — short chapters, strong opinions, and years of proof it works.
- Book Review: David and Goliath by Malcolm GladwellThe advantages of disadvantages: why underdogs win, why prestige can trap you, and why more isn’t better. A review of Gladwell’s underdog manifesto.
- Book Review: Talking to Strangers by Malcolm GladwellWhy we default to truth, why faces don’t reveal lies, and why context drives behavior. A review of Gladwell’s unsettling book on dealing with strangers.
- Book Review: So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport‘Follow your passion’ is bad advice, argues Cal Newport. Build rare, valuable skills instead — career capital — then trade them for control and a mission.
- Book Review: Blink by Malcolm GladwellMalcolm Gladwell on the power of snap judgments: when thin-slicing works, when it spectacularly fails, and how to train your instincts. A critical review.
- Book Review: Digital Minimalism by Cal NewportCal Newport’s philosophy for intentional technology use: the 30-day digital declutter and practical rules for reclaiming your attention from the attention economy.
- Book Review: Creativity, Inc. by Ed CatmullPixar co-founder Ed Catmull on building a creative culture that shipped fourteen straight hits — the Braintrust, candid feedback, and why protecting new ideas beats avoiding mistakes.
- Book Review: The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert IgerRobert Iger’s memoir of fifteen years running Disney — the Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Fox acquisitions, and the leadership principles behind one of business’s great turnarounds.
- What Is a Wash Sale?Sell a stock at a loss and rebuy within 30 days, and the IRS disallows the loss. Here’s how the wash sale rule works, with examples.
- What Is the 4% Rule?The 4% rule says you can withdraw 4% in year one of retirement, then adjust for inflation. Here’s where it came from, how it works, and its flaws.
- Book Review: Business Adventures by John BrooksJohn Brooks’ twelve classic New Yorker business stories — the Edsel, Xerox, the 1962 crash — Warren Buffett’s favorite business book, and still the best crash course in how companies really work.
- Book Review: Grit by Angela DuckworthWhy talent isn’t the best predictor of success: the research on passion and perseverance, deliberate practice, and what actually keeps people going.
- Book Review: Fortune’s Formula by William PoundstoneThe story of the Kelly criterion — the bet-sizing formula behind Thorp, Shannon, and Buffett-style concentration — and how Long-Term Capital Management proved what happens without it.
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