
Munger's assembled list of about twenty-five standard causes of human error - incentive bias, consistency, social proof, deprival superreaction, authority and the rest - together with the observation that they compound when several fire at once. He treats it as a checklist for the mind, run before a decision rather than after a loss. The claim is that avoiding standard stupidity beats pursuing brilliance.
Essays on self-knowledge and how unreliable one's own judgement is.
Recommended by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Six principles of compliance, from reciprocity to scarcity, and how sellers use them.
“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charlie Munger and 29 others
Speeches making the case for a latticework of mental models from many fields.
“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charlie Munger and 26 others
Kahneman's synthesis of behavioral economics is the cognitive science underpinning every negotiation tactic. Anchoring, loss aversion, framing effects, and the planning fallacy — understanding why these biases operate, not just that they exist, makes you harder to exploit and more honest about your own irrationality.
“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charles de Vaulx and 32 others
Explains an action by tracing its causes back from neurons to hormones to evolution.
“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Bryan Johnson and 5 others
Builds out Munger's latticework idea from primary sources.
“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Nat Eliason and 8 others
Practical countermeasures rather than a catalogue of biases.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
What physics, biology, psychology and other fields teach about investing.
“here's a book I read, Robert Hagstrom, who has written a lot of books about Buffett” — Thomas Gayner
Source: Masters in Business transcript: Thomas S. Gayner, Markel Corp
Recommended by: Morgan Housel, Thomas Gayner
Synthesis of his mental-models framework, not a life.
“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Christopher Bloomstran and 7 others
The only full biography; written with Munger's cooperation.
“The two I'd recommend that I thoroughly enjoyed are Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe” — Christopher Bloomstran
Source: Semper Augustus 2023 Letter to Clients, 'Worldly Wisdom', p. 81
Recommended by: Christopher Bloomstran, Mohnish Pabrai
Mental models from physics, biology and psychology, applied to investing.
“I'd recommend reading Robert Hagstrom's outstanding book, Latticework.” — Mohnish Pabrai
Source: Pabrai recommending Hagstrom's book on mental models
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Traits of psychopathy and where they are rewarded in business
Recommended by: Morgan Housel
Bevelin distilling observation and inference habits from Sherlock Holmes
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick O'Shaughnessy and 1 other
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