Jim OShaughnessy

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Founder, Chairman & Co-Chief Investment Officer, OSAM LLC. Author, "What Works on Wall Street," Host "Infinite Loops" podcast 🎙
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From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, grief, and long-buried secrets Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has ba
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Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and social psychology research, an acclaimed author demonstrates how so much of our thinking is informed by false assumptions—making us dangerously mistrustful as a society and needlessly unhappy as individuals.  The desire to fit in is one of the most powerful,
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Good book on the subject: "Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions" by Todd Rose

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Great book touching on this subject: "Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions" by @ltoddrose

Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century--an age in which the marriage of human sensi
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Jim OShaughnessy 2mos

Great book! Plus, I concur as well, cheers

Excerpt from Amazon.com: “There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.” Finite games
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Jim OShaughnessy 2mos

Great book and right up your alley as well, enjoy

Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than to infor
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Jim OShaughnessy 2mos

Great book Jason.

A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world. Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically pecu
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Jim OShaughnessy 2mos

It's a great book:

Jim OShaughnessy 1y

Indeed. Highly recommend the book, lots of insights like that contained within.

Jim OShaughnessy 1y

This is a good book that covers that theme pretty well

Jim OShaughnessy 2y

11/ â–  Desire for control and love of choice Impersonal Prosociality (and Related Worldviews) â–  Impartial principles over contextual particularism â–  Trust, fairness, honesty, and cooperation with anonymous others, strangers, and impersonal institutions ( e.g ., government )

From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pus
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Jim OShaughnessy 2mos

I have, great book Dave.

Margaret Heffernan argues that the biggest threats and dangers we face are the ones we don't see--not because they're secret or invisible,but because we're willfully blind. A distinguished businesswoman and writer, she examines the phenomenon and traces its imprint in our private and working lives,
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Jim OShaughnessy 2mos

Good book on the subject: "Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril" by Margaret Heffernan

When analyzing individual companies, there is a disconnect between our expectations and this base rate of performance. Consider how investors value companies. We are trained to think about intrinsic value as the present value of the company’s future cash flows. This is of course technically correct
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Jim OShaughnessy 2mos

.@NeckarValue sharing some important ideas about how you should think about investing. As an aside, I think gauging a company's agility is a good guide when speculating on its long-term chances of survival. Statistically Speaking, You Are The Patsy

From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what the hell is going on in our strange, unprecedented modern times.Between 2013 and 2016, Tim Urban became one of the world's most popular bloggers, writing dozens of viral, long-form articles about ever
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Jim OShaughnessy 3mos

I highly recommend @waitbutwhy's new book 👇🏻

Some people "on here" enjoy listening to classical music while they work, so I thought I'd do a short thread on a legendary pianist:

Glen Gould.

(Link to remastered recordings of his renditions of The Goldberg Variations by Bach in final tweet.)

Let's Gooo!

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Jim OShaughnessy 3mos

Interesting thread in the inimitable Glen Gould 👇🏻

Oscar Levant was one of the wildly self-destructive personalities ever to become a household name. This biography looks at his life, from his work as concert pianist and the premier interpreter of Gershwin's concert works, to his presence as an insulting wit, raconteur and best-selling author. (Fro
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Jim OShaughnessy 3mos

Book recommendation: "A Talent for Genius: The Life and Times of Oscar Levant" by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger Levant is an amazing character that few people remember today, I highly recommend reading about this fascinating man.

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