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Book Review – The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
I am a regular reader of the weekly economic newsletter published by John Mauldin, both Thoughts from the Frontline and Outside the Box, which are excellent sources for macroeconomic information and education (not that I have enough money to do something on this, but learning always enriches, even if not materially). In his Outside the Box letter he regularly sends articles by a self-defined “geopolitical intelligence” company called Stratfor, which are generally enlightening and eye-opening. “The Next 100 Years” is a book written by Stratfor’s CEO George Friedman, who tries to predict what will happen globally in the next 100 … Continue reading
Book Review – The Passionate Programmer
The Pragmatic Programmer was a book that had a great impact on my view of programming. I read it after having programmed for 6 years, and the book just put names on so many things I had felt and done during this time. It was like the time when I was studying my B.Sc, I had a good friend who was really interested in the same topics as me and we would discuss theoretical computer science on my terrace all night. I read this book and understood that I was not special, (some would say this is bad, but I … Continue reading
Book Review – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Trilogy
I am driving to the university almost every day, a trip that takes about 35 minutes (in public transportation it would take about one hour or even more). This daily driving would have been very boring if I had not discovered the world of audio books. This week I finished listening the much enjoyable trilogy starting with “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, then “The Girl Who Played with Fire” and ending with “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”. The books tell the intertwined story of two persons: Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. Lisbeth is an impressively strange girl … Continue reading
Book Review – The Book Thief
I started reading the book thief just as I started reading the black book. It was the next book in the shelf on the side of my bed. The book seemed fun to read, even though it is a book about the second world war. The back cover promised some fun since the book is written by death, and death does to have a good sense of humor in the book (and having read lots of Prattchet books lately, death does have a great sense of humor). What a book. I’ll say that again: what a book. Death tells the … Continue reading
Book Review – The Little Book that Beats the Market
The Little Book That Beats the Market, by Joel Greenblatt is a really short book for investors searching for a magic formula for stock exchange investing. I like the idea behind the book, but the book itself is well below my standards. First of all, anyone who invests in the stock market should do his own due diligence and not rely on a simple magic formula. There are no free lunches, and if you want to earn money in the stock market, you have to work for it, just like earning money in any other human endeavour. Secondly, the book … Continue reading
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