Pre-suasion

Though I was a huge fan of Influence, I kept pushing Cialdini's latest book Pre-Suasion further into my reading backlog. I figured the first book pretty much covered the most important stuff so well that this new one was bound to be a disappointment.

Radical Markets

In recent decades in the West, GDP growth has slowed down, while inequality has risen. Radical Markets points out the inefficiencies with the status-quo version of capitalism we are familiar with, and recommends a wholesale change that is even more market-based than the one we have.

Mastering the Market Cycle

I did not want to read Mastering the Market Cycle, but it seems to be so widely read in value investing circles that I felt like I had to. Despite my low expectations, I was still disappointed by the book.

Never Split the Difference

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It is THE best book on negotiating that I've read, and I've read a number of them both as part of courses and on my own.

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front is the story of World War I as seen by a teen aged German tasked with manning the front. It is a powerful story, written by a guy who served on the front lines. The Nazis banned and burned his books.

The Rebel Allocator

I can't think of a single novel on the topic of value investing...until now. A Google search for "value investing novels" provides a comprehensive list of value investing books that are decidedly *not* novels. The closest thing I can think of is an obscure book a publisher once sent me about buying low and selling high in the shipping industry (creatively named "The Shipping Man"). So in The Rebel Allocator, Jacob Taylor is breaking new ground.

You Down With RFP?

A cyclical stock I have started to buy is Resolute Forest Products. They make many kinds of wood products including lumber, tissue and newsprint.