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Even working with a relatively small amount of capital—less than $100,000—Warren saw that by using this kind of thinking he could open up a world of possibilities for himself. His only constraints were the money, energy, and time he had available. It was lumberjack labor, but he loved doing it. This was nothing like the way most people invested: sitting in an office and reading reports that described research performed by other people. Warren was a detective, and he naturally did his own research, just as he had collected bottle caps and thought about fingerprinting nuns.
The Snowball
Alice Schroeder
During the second century AD, Rome was ruled by a line of emperors born in Iberia, in whose veins probably flowed at least a few drops of local Iberian blood. The reigns of the lberian emperors – from Trajan to Marcus Aurelius – are often seen as the empire’s golden age.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Perhaps most significantly, much of the gender gap in wages seems to be mediated by the personality factor of self-confidence. In a large variety of workplace settings, women, on average, are less self-confident than men and exhibit less self-confidence in public settings. Yet labor markets often reward confidence, sometimes even excess confidence.
Talent
Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross
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