Book review: James Clear – “Atomic Habits”
Although I usually stay away from “self-improvement”” books, I bought the book as it has been recommended in a blog. In short, this is one of the best books I have read for a long time.
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Book review: “Bad Blood” – Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
“Bad Blood” was one of the few books that I had actually preordered as I usually prefer more “seasoned” books.
I was not disappointed. “Bad Blood” is written by WSJ journalist John Carreyrou who also broke the initial story on Theranos, the once high-flying Silicon Valley Tech startup.
Book review: Scott Wapner – When the Wolves Bite: Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle
“When the wolves bite” is the story about Herbalife and the fight between Bill Ackman, the Activist Hedge Fund manager who publicly shorted the company and Acitivist legend Carl Icahn who became a large shareholder mainly in order to annoy Bill Ackman.
Book review: “Am I being too subtle ?” – Sam Zell
To be honest, I knew about Sam Zell and his real estate empire to some extent but I didn’t consider him as a great general (value) investor so far. This clearly changed after reading his “Memoirs”.
Book review: “100 Baggers” – Christopher Mayer
Who doesn’t like to own a stock which increases by a factor of 100 ? The introduction of the book promises that it will tell the reader all he/she needs to know about 100 baggers and that anyone can invest in them.
Book review: “The hard thing about hard things” – Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz these days is known best as co-founder of Venture Capital firm A16Z or Andreessen & Horowitz. He is also famous for being an early employee of Netscape and founder of a company called Loudcloud and then Opsware which he sold to HP for 1.6 bn USD.
Book review “Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain”
Almost a year ago, I reviewed the excellent book “Digital Gold” which covered the story of Bitcoin from its beginnings.
Back then I said the following:
I have absolutely no clue what a fair price of a Bitcoin might be. But I believe that in order to have value it has to be widely used and not just to speculate on an increase in value. Personally I would never “invest” in Bitcoin as for me, an investment needs to produce cashflows.
Well, this was (so far) one of my weaker calls. Back then in September 2016, Bitcoin traded slightly below 600 USD, at the time of writing, the price has went up almost 8 fold to 4500 USD per Bitcoin (at the time of writing).
Book review: Attack of the 50 foot Blockchain
