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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Dwayne Z. (“Dizzy”) Cubitts,
Thomas Pynchon • Bleeding Edge
At the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, a young shareholder asked Buffett how to succeed in life. After Buffett shared his thoughts, Charlie chimed in: “Don’t do cocaine. Don’t race trains. And avoid AIDS situations.” Many would dismiss his seemingly flippant answer as merely humorous (which it certainly was), but in fact it faithfully refle
... See moreCharles T. Munger • Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Florida drew the transient and rootless on the eternal promise of a second chance, with more than its share of scammers and con men. So who was to say the guy living next door wasn’t one of them? A subdivision like Carriage Pointe was Jane Jacobs’s vision of hell.
George Packer • The Unwinding
(Although even in her twenties, Charlie wasn’t what you’d call eye candy: her looks had always been sharp edged and intense, more like eye tequila.)