rcmnd

The Devil’s Financial DictionaryBook

by Jason Zweig

Who uses, recommends or left The Devil’s Financial Dictionary, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

1 person

Writer of the 25iq blog on investing, business and technology, and author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor.
loved

Janson Zweig has written a wonderful book entitled The Devil’s Financial Dictionary in the style of Bierce that is both entertaining and educational.

Griffin’s post on Ambrose Bierce; he points to Zweig’s book as the modern equivalent. The page misspells Zweig’s first name.

2017-05-06·25iq.com ↗

Writer of the 25iq blog on investing, business and technology, and author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor.
loved

One of my favorite writers, Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal, is the author of the newly published and wonderful book: The Devil’s Financial Dictionary.

Griffin’s own venture-capital devil’s dictionary, written in tribute to Zweig’s book.

2016-07-03·25iq.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.