The Man Who Solved The Market is probably my favorite book this year, and it is *wild* that it recounts a single lifetime.
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I love that he was in his 50s before Renaissance really started to work.
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To be fair he only started seriously working in the field he's best known for at 40, after having by my count at least three distinct professional endeavors which he was among the best in the world at. Egads though.
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Geometry, codebreaking and......?
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Management of people doing the things he was previously IC on, which is a notoriously difficult subgenre of management (a field far more worthy of study and intellectual talent than society broadly believes it to be).
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IC?
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Corporate jargon for "individual contributor"; someone who does the work but does not in the ordinary course manage people who are doing the work.
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