Dan Roller
@Dan_Roller
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Founder and CIO of Maran Capital Management
Denver
Joined June 2012
36/50 Maxims for Thinking Analytically by Dan Levy (re the frameworks of Richard Zeckhauser - yes that Richard Zeckhauser that Charlie Munger adores) - easy to flip to any chapter and pick up a few ideas https://t.co/XTpyVz5YzL
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This book will help you think more analytically. Doing so will enable you to better understand the world around you, to make smarter decisions, and to ultimately live a more fulfilling life. It draws...
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Pulitzer prize-winning The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt 35/50 - pair with Anaximander and the other books I mentioned by Rovelli and David Deutsch. https://t.co/4qbRu61PMI
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Setting the Table by Danny Meyer. 34/50 Fantastic book on hospitality and entrepreneurship. You'll like it all the more if you lived in NYC in the '00s https://t.co/5cccZvNbjl
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs 33/50 - This book is still a cornerstone work in the field. Worth reading the original.
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The special situations investing bible: You Can Be A Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt 32/50 https://t.co/LvjNdCd89T
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Fund manager Joel Greenblatt has been beating the Dow (with returns of 50 percent a year) for more than a decade. And now, in this highly accessible guide, he’s going to show you how to do it, too....
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A few more classics adjacent to business/investing: Cialdini: Influence 29/50 Belsky & Gilovich: Big Money Mistakes (still the best primer on behavioral finance) 30/50 Hazlitt: Economics in One Lesson 31/50
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Field Theory is one of the key bridges between Newton and Einstein. Great read on two of its pioneers. 27/50 https://t.co/IcVZdq4cwa
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The story of two brilliant nineteenth-century scientists who discovered the electromagnetic field, laying the groundwork for the amazing technological and theoretical breakthroughs of the twentieth...
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Going to the beach for vacation this winter or next spring? Take along Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan. 26/50 https://t.co/SGH8R2SXKv
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is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a...
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Speaking of John McPhee, many (most...all?) of his books could be on this list. But I'll highlight Coming Into The Country, his collection of tales about Alaska. Perfect for reading next to a fireplace with your cell phone far, far away. 25/50 https://t.co/zVOX7x0fLp
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Coming into the Country
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Draft No. 4 by John McPhee 24/50 https://t.co/27kmKMpnH3
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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
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Working by Robert Caro On interviewing subjects, researching deeply, and writing. 23/50 https://t.co/02EzmJol8f
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Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. He describes what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses and to begin discovering...
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Moving right along...A few favorite books on writing. Several short sentences about writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg. TLDR: Make sure your sentences say what you think they say. 21/50 https://t.co/1cAvhqG6Dt
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Several Short Sentences About Writing
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Idea Makers by (computer scientist, physicist, author, inventor) Stephen Wolfram is a great series of short essays on an eclectic group of scientists, mathematicians, and computer scientists including Feynman, Lovelace, Turing, and Ramanujan. 20/50 https://t.co/nSct8AUiL9
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This book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today's most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective on the lives and achievements of a selection of intriguing figures from...
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The Complexity/Emergence corner: Emergence - Johnson 15/50 Deep Simplicity - Gribbin (denser) 16/50 Chaos - Gleick 17/50 Complexity - Mitchell 18/50 Scale - West 19/50 (just the first half on biology - I was annoyed by the time he got to cities, but it still deserves a mention)
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Mandelbrot's memoir - The Fractalist 13/50 https://t.co/j7ANe1FtR6
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The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
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