CbrConsultant Posted December 9, 2014 Report Share Posted December 9, 2014 As evident from the title, what is everyone reading over Christmas? Christmas for me means a couple of weeks off work, 15k or so flown miles, and a lot of free time to catch up on reading and other media consumption (while keeping an eye on the scores at The Boxing Day Test). This time around, I'm hoping to get through The Serial Podcast (http://serialpodcast.org/) and a couple of other books by Michael Lewis. There are a couple of other political biographies on my reading list but I'm not yet convinced I want to jump into them over the vacation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Spencer Posted December 9, 2014 Report Share Posted December 9, 2014 I would like to read more books from Michael Lewis, most definitely. I have read The Big Short, which is great. I haven't yet read Flash Boys. Bill Gates shared yesterday his top 5 books from 2014, all of which sound interesting: http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Best-Books-2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Spencer Posted December 9, 2014 Report Share Posted December 9, 2014 If you're interested in Philosophy, I just watched this short series on Youtube created by Alain de Botton: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28XmpdJpJzF2YRBnfmOva0HE0ZI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CbrConsultant Posted December 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 Flash Boys is what introduced me to Lewis' writing. Now I want more, especially his books about the Wall Street, which would make for an interesting read after finishing off Tim Geithner's autobiography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Spencer Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 If you are interested in Wall Street and the 2008 financial crisis, watch this short TED talk from William Black (former bank regulator and Economics Prof at University of Missouri). Interested to hear your thoughts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CbrConsultant Posted December 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 Cheers Tom, I'll take a look at this tonight.There's a couple of other interesting videos on this that got discussed during my Economics class at AGSM earlier in the year that I'll dig up and post (I'll need to go through the slide decks or email the facilitator who shared them during a discussion). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CbrConsultant Posted December 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 So much for my reading list. On the second day of the break I stumbled across a 20th Anniversary revised edition of Barbarians at the Gate (the book about RJR Nabisco's LBO) and have been working my way through that every spare moment I get away from eating and drinking 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Spencer Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 I started listening to the Serial Podcast. Good stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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