I loved this book so much,
I got it as a gift for all my friends
This essay is not quite the same as the book, because it’s turned into something more.
It started as a review. I read the book twice, then I listened to it twice on Audible. But I still didn’t feel that I had internalized it enough – I needed to write about it. But what started out as a review grew into something more: it’s now a personal manifesto.
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Guy Spier and I
Reflections on friendship, mortality, and the kindness of Guy Spier, the value investor who taught me that we all live on borrowed time.
This Is Your Captain Speaking – Buckle Up
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Fiddler on the Roof and Value Investing
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Stock XYZ has declined 25%. What do you think? Is your thesis broken? What you observe in stock price volatility is mostly noise. A good chunk of buyers and sellers don’t know much about what they are trading other than the ticker.
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