Guy in my training program gave me a copy of Al Rappaport's book called Creating Shareholder Value, which was published in 1986. So this is probably a year and a half or two years after that book was out. And he gave it to me for a completely different reason, it had nothing to do with the basic concept. But I read that book and the light bulbs all went off for me personally.
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So I read this book Bionomics and I'm like, "This is so cool." And the guy sort of opens the book by saying, "Hey, you can't really understand economies unless you understand evolution and so forth," so I was very drawn to all that.
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And so why this book is so, I think still to this day, kind of exhilarating is because you read about these scientists and how they were coming up with ideas that were far from the mainstream, and when we look back on them now, many of them have become much more mainstream ideas. But it was super cool.
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And he wrote a book called Behave in 2017, which is, I would say, probably the best book I've ever read on human nature. It's not an easy read, but it's very well-written and very interesting.
Transcript of his interview on The Tim Ferriss Show (#659), published on the Ferriss blog.
And so he wrote a book called Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers in the mid 1990s, which it's a wonderful title and it's a wonderful book about the idea of stress.
Transcript of his interview on The Tim Ferriss Show (#659), published on the Ferriss blog.
The third way to think about things as complex adaptive systems, and I think the way that's easiest to understand this, is using some of the language from Jim Surowiecki's great book The Wisdom of Crowds, which came out probably 2004, 2005.
Transcript of his interview on The Tim Ferriss Show (#659), published on the Ferriss blog.
And Scott's written a number of great books. The Difference is his big book on this. And he wrote a smaller book called The Diversity Bonus, which a shorter treatment of same topic.
Transcript of his interview on The Tim Ferriss Show (#659), published on the Ferriss blog.
By the way, he also wrote a book called Capital Ideas, which basically does the same thing for the history of finance. So Peter Bernstein, that is money.
Transcript of his interview on The Tim Ferriss Show (#659), published on the Ferriss blog.
there's a wonderful book called More Heat Than Light by a professor named Phil Mirowski, which documents how economists literally, and I mean literally, mapped over equations from Newtonian physics to basically give economic street cred, right?
Transcript of his interview on The Tim Ferriss Show (#659), published on the Ferriss blog.
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