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The Abominable No-Man Who Made Warren Buffett Better

Reading Notes · Poor Charlie's Almanack — Part 1

Reading notes on Poor Charlie's Almanack Part 1 — Munger's biography, his investment partnership record, and what it means to age without illusions.

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The Hammer and the Lattice

Reading Notes · Poor Charlie's Almanack — Part 2

Charlie Munger's latticework of mental models isn't self-help advice — it's a precise argument for why single-discipline thinkers are epistemically doomed.

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Twenty-Five Ways Your Brain Is Lying to You

Reading Notes · Poor Charlie's Almanack — Part 5

Munger's masterwork lecture on human misjudgment, the financial scandals he predicted, and what a 79-year-old genius told law graduates about living well.

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The Architecture of a Rational Mind

Reading Notes · Poor Charlie's Almanack — Full Book Synthesis

A full-book synthesis of Poor Charlie's Almanack — how mental models, psychology of misjudgment, and investment practice form one self-consistent system.

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Charlie Munger Will Tell You Exactly What He Thinks

Reading Notes · Poor Charlie's Almanack — Part 3

Reading Notes on Poor Charlie's Almanack Part 3: Munger's extemporaneous talks on investing, Wall Street, management, and the art of not being an idiot.

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Think Backwards, Then Think Broadly

Reading Notes · Poor Charlie's Almanack — Part 4

Six lectures that form the intellectual core of Poor Charlie's Almanack — inverse thinking, mental models, and why narrow specialists are dangerous.

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Restrained Greed: What Munger's Early Wesco Letters Taught Me

Reading Notes · The Way of Munger — Part 1

Reading notes on Charlie Munger's 1987–1995 Wesco Financial shareholder meeting speeches — on the S&L crisis, acquisition discipline, and the art of knowing what you don't know.

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When the Newspaper Died, the Philosopher Spoke Freely

Reading Notes · The Way of Munger — Part 4

Reading notes on The Way of Munger Part 4 — how losing a monopoly gave Charlie Munger a new stage for his most candid thinking.

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The Man Who Wouldn't Drink the Kool-Aid: Reading Notes · The Way of Munger — Part 2

Reading Notes · The Way of Munger — Part 2

How Munger navigated the dot-com bubble from 1996 to 2002 — not by predicting its collapse, but by understanding why he had no business being in it.

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Nothing Left to Lose

Reading Notes · The Way of Munger — Part 5

Reading Notes · The Way of Munger — Part 5: Charlie Munger's 2019–2022 Daily Journal remarks, where a man approaching 100 had nothing left to prove and everything left to say.

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The Years He Was Right and Nobody Listened

Reading Notes · The Way of Munger — Part 3

Munger's Wesco Financial years 2003–2010: derivatives warnings nobody heeded, the BYD bet, and the quiet end of a 35-year run.

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Thirty-Five Years Without a Retraction

Reading Notes · The Way of Munger — Full Book Synthesis

A synthesis of Charlie Munger's complete shareholder meeting remarks (1987–2022): what stayed constant, what evolved, and what it all adds up to.