Some thoughts and experiences studying chemistry and working as a chemist in drug discovery and process development. On how companies evolved during the last 70 years. How to invest in the stock market. A practical method to grow your income exponentially and become financially independent.
Recommended books:
History, Biography:
Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds (Mackay; no chapter yet on bitcoin)
Fortune's children (Vanderbilt)
Once in Golconda (Brooks)
Titan (Chernow)
The great crash 1929 (Galbraith)
Only yesterday (Allen)
The go-go years (Brooks)
The age of turbulence (Greenspan)
The snowball (Schroeder)
Margaret Thatcher (Thatcher)
A personal history (K. Graham)
Business history:
The reckoning (Halberstam)
Ashes to ashes (Kluger)
The master switch (Wu)
Hard drive (Wallace)
Showstopper (Zachary)
The soul of a new machine (Kidder)
In the plex (Levy)
iWoz (Wozniak)
Moneyball (Lewis)
Liar's poker (Lewis)
Power failure (Cohan)
Idea man (Allen)
The chip (Kilby)
Long hard road (Murray)
Where wizards stay up late (Hafner)
The idea factory (Gertner)
Dealers of lightning (Hiltzik)
Investing:
Margin of safety (Klarman)
One up on Wall Street (Lynch)
Where the money is (Seessel)
Business cycles (Tvede)
The intelligent investor (Graham)
The art of contrary thinking (Neill)
What works on Wall Street (O'Shaughnessy)
Contrarian investment strategies (Dreman)
The incredible shrinking alpha (Swedroe)
You can be a stock market genius (Greenblatt)
Triumph of the optimists (Dimson)
Where are the customer's yachts? (Schwed)
On investing (Neff)
Thinking fast and slow (Kahneman)
Hedgehogging (Biggs)
Investing with Anthony Bolton (Bolton)
Economics, Politics:
That which is seen and that which is not seen (Bastiat)
The wealth and poverty of nations (Landes)
Economics in one lesson (Hazlitt)
The road to serfdom (Hayek)
Free to choose (Friedman)
In praise of profits (Yardeni)
Socialism: the failed idea that never dies (Niemietz)
Socialism sucks (Lawson)
Woke inc (Ramaswamy)
The closing of the liberal mind (Holmes)
The rotten heart of Europe (Connolly)
The virtue of selfishness (Rand)
Capitalism, the unknown ideal (Rand)
Democracy, the god that failed (Hoppe)
