The Echo Chamber in your Head
You can always find someone who will agree with you. This has been true in any era, on any opinion, position, belief, or sworn fact.
Charlie Munger
One of the articles (it’s actually a speech) I mentioned yesterday is by Charlie Munger.
Warren Buffett gets (deservedly) a lot of credit for Berkshire’s success over the years. But, I’d wager quite a bit that Warren wouldn’t trade his long-time business partner for anyone.
Charlie’s speech is a great read. It easily makes it in my top ten reads of all-time. Most likely my top five. And perhaps in my top three.
In the larger context of the business world (and in offering life lessons), Charlie Munger is very undervalued.
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As previously posted, the speech I’m referring to can be found here.
Three Reads
Here are three reads you may find interesting:
1. Elementary Worldly Wisdom by Charles Munger [1994] (ycombinator.com)
“I’m going to play a minor trick on you today because the subject of my talk is the art of stock picking as a subdivision of the art of worldly wisdom. That enables me to start talking about worldly wisdom — a much broader topic that interests me because I think all too little of it is delivered by modern educational systems, at least in an effective way.”
2. How To Do What You Love (paulgraham.com)
“To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We’ve got it down to four words: ‘Do what you love.’ But it’s not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated.”
3. Late Bloomers (gladwell.com)
“Ben Fountain was an associate in the real-estate practice at the Dallas offices of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, just a few years out of law school, when he decided he wanted to write fiction. The only thing Fountain had ever published was a law-review article. His literary training consisted of a handful of creative-writing classes in college. He had tried to write when he came home at night from work, but usually he was too tired to do much. He decided to quit his job.”
Steve Jobs’s 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech
This Too Shall Pass
The band, OK Go, creators of the “Dancing on Treadmills” video for its song, “Here It Goes Again,” have captured the minds of many with its latest performance.
The song is, “This Too Shall Pass,” off of its third (and latest) studio album, “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky.”
You can find out more about the band on its official website here and on its MySpace page here.
Anatomy Of Apple Design
Free
Last night I went out with a friend to a local bar. It’s known for its pool.
I wouldn’t consider myself a great pool player, but I’m not terrible, either.
The place actually offered a few other things as well. There was a restaurant/bar area where you could sit down and have a conversation or meal with someone. This area was probably the quietest in the place. There was also a bar and dance floor in the back.