What did you read this year?
Peter’s
average rating for
2022
4.0
really liked it
4.0
A fun book about hedge funds and market crashes - more than anything, it made me think of hedge funds as a much more entrepreneurial enterprise. In particular, the people in charge are much more like operators than investors; they are really hands on with the decisions that the fund makes.
There was an interesting set of similarities that a lot of bubbles seemed to have - across a space of X investments, investors decided that the individual atomi ...more
There was an interesting set of similarities that a lot of bubbles seemed to have - across a space of X investments, investors decided that the individual atomi ...more
A remarkable book that inspired Wikipedia, Object-oriented programming, Design Patterns, and Sim City. Just an incredibly poetic and thoughtful book about designing fractal interlocking abstractions which compound on one another and create beauty from simplicity. Hugely inspirational for my work on the Ontology.
Cities are instances of a class; the class is composed of patterns, recursively swirling in a nested structure in which each atom is as c ...more
Cities are instances of a class; the class is composed of patterns, recursively swirling in a nested structure in which each atom is as c ...more