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Sep 14, 2016

A Snapshot of What We Are Reading - September 2016

Back to school means new books and new ideas. Here’s a snapshot of the “new” items our team's reading.

Around the Web:
Aswath Damodaran Blog – most specifically his two posts on Shiller’s CAPE ratio were quite good

The New Yorker: Pete Wells Has His Knives Out by Ian Parker

Books:
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

Creativity Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull

Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr by Ron Chernow

Abundance by Dr. Peter Diamandis (Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation) and Steven Kotler

A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford

Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior by Arthur Herman

Everydata: The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day by John H Johnson and Mike Gluck

Tribe by Sebastian Junger

Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve by Roger Lowenstein

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mckay

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand

Warren Buffett’s Ground Rules by Jeremy C Miller

The Nordic Theory of Everything by Anu Partanen

The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath

Who Gets What and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design by Alvin Roth

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel by George Santayana

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

Unbroken Brain by Maia Szalavitz

Chartered Market Technician – Level II text




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