Books

Written, read, and recommended by our podcast guests & listeners

Chasing String in the Digital Era - Jaffer Ali
Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian - Emanuel Derman
Vines in a Cold Climate - Henry Jeffreys
In Defense of Civilization - Dr. Michael Bonner
Two Thoughts: A Timeless Collection of Infinite Wisdom - Jim O’Shaughnessy
Make Rules Without Making Enemies: How to Draw the Lines Without Drawing Fire - Shay Hill
The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance - Emanuel Derman
Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion With Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life - Emanuel Derman
Longevity...Simplified - Howard Luks
Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet? - Pete Dyson & Rory Sutherland
Alchemy - Rory Sutherland
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust - John Coates
The Management Myth - Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong - Matthew Stewart
Starting Strength - Mark Rippetoe
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R Hofstadter
Cut the Knot: Probability Riddles - Alexander Bogomolny
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work? - Stephen Wolfram
Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis - Scott Patterson
The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward - Benoit Mandelbrot
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It - Chris Voss
The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides - Sophicles, Aeschylus, Euripides
Fixing Economics: The story of how the dismal science was broken - and how it could be rebuilt - George Cooper
Energy and Civilization: A History - Vaclav Smil
Humanizing Rules: Bringing Behavioural Science to Ethics and Compliance - Christian Hunt
Financial Speculation: Trading financial biases and behaviour - Gerald Ashley
Two Speed World: The impact of explosive and gradual change - Gerald Ashley & Terry Lloyd
Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails: Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications - Nassim Taleb
The Incerto - Nassim Taleb

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