Runs McArthur Capital from Naples, Florida, investing in securities, real estate, small businesses and ventures; has invested in Gumroad, Italic and Varda and sits on the board of the non-profit Community Crew.
1 article · 30 books they recommend
Franklin's life as printer, scientist, diplomat and founder.
Also recommended by: Alfred Lin, Andrew Wilkinson, Mohnish Pabrai and 6 others
Buffett's life from Omaha and Graham's class to building Berkshire Hathaway.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Christopher Bloomstran and 11 others
Synthesis of his mental-models framework, not a life.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Christopher Bloomstran and 6 others
Two years shadowing Musk, across SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink and the buying of Twitter.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson
Also recommended by: Jason Calacanis
How Walmart grew from one Arkansas store by cutting costs and prices.
Also recommended by: David Cancel, Mohnish Pabrai, Iman Gadzhi and 2 others
How a running-shoe importer became Nike, surviving one cash crisis after another.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai and 24 others
Buffett's life to 2008, written with full access to his files and his friends.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Guy Spier, Mohnish Pabrai and 4 others
A neurosurgeon diagnosed with lung cancer at 36 asks what makes life worth living.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Morgan Housel and 10 others
The amateur's edge argument from the Magellan record.
Also recommended by: David Rolfe, Francisco Garcia Parames and 8 others
Speeches making the case for a latticework of mental models from many fields.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charlie Munger and 25 others
The explicit argument for cloning rather than originating ideas.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Guy Spier
The Good Judgment Project; the practices that measurably improve forecasts.
Also recommended by: Patrick Collison and 8 others
Rare, unforeseen, high-impact events drive history, explained only after the fact.
Also recommended by: Howard Marks, Marc Andreessen, Nat Eliason and 17 others
A novel of an amnesiac astronaut sent to stop a microbe that is dimming the sun.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Austen Allred, Brian Armstrong and 3 others
Also recommended by: Melanie Perkins, Trevor Ncube
Build habits by making them obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying.
Also recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Balaji S. Srinivasan and 20 others
Thirteen principles of getting rich, claimed to come from studying 500 wealthy men.
Also recommended by: Jim Clayton, Mohnish Pabrai and 7 others
Seventy-one short pieces that correct common impressions with plain arithmetic.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg
Jennifer Doudna, co-developer of CRISPR gene editing, and what followed it.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates
A physicist's stories, from fixing radios as a boy to Los Alamos and beyond.
Also recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Matt Mullenweg and 18 others
How leaders drive hypergrowth by raising standards, focus and urgency.
Also recommended by: Jason Calacanis
The story of how Twitter was founded and of the founders who built it.
Also recommended by: Alexis Ohanian, Casey Neistat, Ron Conway
A children's story of the small digger that worked to free the stuck ship Ever Given.
Also recommended by: Keith Wasserman
Twenty short essays on why behaviour matters more than knowledge with money.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Nat Eliason, Ali Abdaal and 9 others
How lack of sleep damages nearly every system in the body, and what sleep does.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Abi Tyas Tunggal, Alexis Ohanian and 5 others
The case that ageing is a disease that can be treated, and the theory behind it.
Also recommended by: David Friedberg, Jason Fried and 3 others
Incerto volume 4
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 24 others
Life in Nazi concentration camps, and logotherapy: finding meaning to survive.
Also recommended by: Frank Martin, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 23 others
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