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Co-founder and co-manager, Nomad Investment Partnership and Sleep, Zakaria and Company, 2001-2014, with Qais Zakaria

He wrote no book, but the Nomad partner letters are a primary text on scale economies shared and long-horizon concentrated ownership, and the 2001-2013 record behind them is documented in the letters themselves.

3 letters · 1 articles · 8 books they recommend

Letters 3

igyfoundation.org.uk/nomad-partnership-letters/

The IGY Foundation, which Sleep and Qais Zakaria endowed, publishes the Nomad Investment Partnership letters with their blessing, but only as bound collections rather than one file per letter: Full_Collection_Nomad_Letters_.pdf holds the complete 2001-2013 run, and Nomad_Partnership_Letters_1-1.pdf is the same set under a later filename. There is no per-year PDF anywhere on the site; besides those two collection files it holds only the Chairman's preamble and one short essay. Nomad itself was wound up in 2014 and never had a website, and Sleep and Zakaria have no personal site.

Articles and essays 1

Books they recommend 8

The complete Nomad letters to partners, 2001-2014, were published free in 2021; every book below is sourced to a page in that collection.

Nick Sleep, speech to the board of The Investment Fund for Foundations, 26 September 2005, reproduced with the Nomad Annual Letter, pp. 82-83 1

Psychology and Behaviour 1

Influence
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini
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“one of my favourite cartoons which was carried in the book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Bob Cialdini”

Nomad Investment Partnership, Interim Letter for the period ended June 30th, 2009, p. 158 1

Science 1

On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
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“may have done more than any, with the exception of the Bible, to shape man's self-perception”

Nomad Investment Partnership, Annual Letter for the period ended December 31st, 2005, p. 76 1

Sociology and Culture 1

Outside Lies Magic
Outside Lies Magic
John R. Stilgoe
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“Professor John Stilgoe at Harvard is trying to teach it and wrote an interesting book recently entitled "Outside Lies Magic"”

Nick Sleep and Qais Zakaria, Postamble to the full collection of the Nomad Letters to Partners, p. 219 1

Investing 1

Richer, Wiser, Happier
Richer, Wiser, Happier
William Green
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“William has written the kind of book that we would love to have written but know that we lack the requisite skills.”

Nomad Investment Partnership, Annual Letter for the period ended December 31st, 2013, p. 216 1

Psychology and Behaviour 1

The Paradox of Choice
The Paradox of Choice
Barry Schwartz
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“It is almost ten years since Barry Schwartz published his popular psychology book "The Paradox of Choice".”

Nomad Investment Partnership, Annual Letter for the period ended December 31st, 2007, p. 130 1

Biography and Memoir 1

Titan
Titan
Ron Chernow
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“In John Rockefeller's biography, "Titan", Ron Chernow describes how Rockefeller equated silence with strength.”

Nomad Investment Partnership, Interim Report for the period ended June 30th, 2002, p. 10 1

Investing 1

Where Are the Customers' Yachts?
Where Are the Customers' Yachts?
Fred Schwed
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“recommended reading for those with a healthy disdain for Wall Street and its practices as well as an interest in post-boom psychology”

Nick Sleep, speech to the board of The Investment Fund for Foundations, 26 September 2005, reproduced with the Nomad Annual Letter, p. 82 1

Philosophy 1

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
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“reading "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig at the time... the two just combined to change how I viewed the world”

Where they publish 1

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