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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
Been thinking about the reading themes I've been working on. There was definitely a big finance theme in my reading this year, which stemmed from "how do businesses grow from retained earnings?" This naturally led to Buffett, and then Gramm and Thorndike and the rest.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
So here's what I read in 2019: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son 👎 The Fifth Season (N. K. Jemisin) 🌟 The Obelisk Gate (Jemisin) 🌟 The Stone Sky (Jemisin)🌟 The Broken Kingdoms (Jemisin)🤷‍♂️ Kingdom of Gods (Jemisin)🤷‍♂️ The Awakened Kingdom (Jemisin)🤷‍♂️
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Cedric Chin
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I went down the rabbit hole of the history of lean production, but didn't dig as deep as I wanted to. I also went deep enough for 'how do professional services firms grow?', but finished only 80% of Managing The Professional Services Firm. I should probably loop back to finish.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
There was some investigation into story (Invisible Ink), though not as deeply as I would've liked. I feel like I've put into practice most of what I learned there, though. Digging into Koch was a sizeable bit of my reading. It was good. Koch's playbook is underrated, coz evil.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
Next year, I hope to dig further into: - CBT; emotional regulation seems really important, what's the state of the art there? - building products; I've got a lot lined up on this front - the history of lean wrt productivity - Japanese and Korean conglomerates.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
(On that last one: why did the zaibatsus develop the way they have? And what problems exist given that most businesses in Asia are conglomerates?) PS: re: Koch, I genuinely think they've created a disciplined playbook to run a conglomerate w/o discount. It's fascinating.
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Cedric Chin
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It’s important to read all, I think. Because the underlying principles may be the same but the variants being applied are pretty different. It’s worth asking: who’s really good at capital allocation in, say, tech? Right now I think it’s Barry Diller at IAC. Maybe Bezos.
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