“Pinker wrote in that same book, the sense of style. Chapter two is actually about this. It's all about classic style. And I think classic style is what appeals to me the most.”
Books mentioned in Write Like Wall Street’s Best — Michael Mauboussin
From How I Write · 2024-03-06
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“so on and so forth. And so for example, Strunk and White, which is another classic book I'm writing, is more of a practical style. So it's almost a practical style would be teacher to student. So”
“Understanding Media when I was fresh out of college, and there was something about the way that McLennan explained the similarities and the synthesis between art and culture and”
“generates more profits. Increasing returns, first described by Adam Smith and Wealth of Nations in 1776. You remember the pin factory idea? Yeap.”
“Well, I first met Lawrence in probably 2005, 2006. He wrote a book called Deep Survival, which I would highly recommend to people. The subtitle, which kind of gives away the”
“2009 called 2010, 2009 called Think Twice. And it's about exactly what the title says, when you are faced with certain types of situations, your mind's going to want to think about it one way,”
“as the editor for the Success Equation, the next book after that, for the same types of reasons. And the other thing that's fun for me about a guy like Lawrence is, he knows nothing about”
“same core idea of risk and how we think about risk wrong. But he starts with Fooled by Randomness, which then leads to the Black Swan, which then leads to Antifragile, which then leads to, I think”
“which then leads to the Black Swan, which then leads to Antifragile, which then leads to, I think Skin in the Game is his fourth one. And everyone, it's following that same thread, but you're”
“which then leads to the Black Swan, which then leads to Antifragile, which then leads to, I think Skin in the Game is his fourth one. And everyone, it's following that same thread, but you're”
“Skin in the Game is his fourth one. And everyone, it's following that same thread, but you're eventually finding new things. And he writes a book, say every five years. And he's like,”
“to figure it out, how much randomness is there? And then in Moneyball in 2003, which influenced a lot of people, but Moneyball was almost like the opposite story, which is we can use numbers and”
“but that's Stephen J. Gould's idea. I got that from reading his book, full House, in the book. I give him full attribution. So I'm not pretending like I came up with it,”
“but there's a great book called Understanding Michael Porter. And I think that there's an opportunity for people who want to do the kind of work that you've done and also get their name out”
“that comes from zero to one. Where did that come from? It really can be a systematic process of getting your name out there as a writer. 100%. And the other thing about markets,”