People who’ve learned investing basics the weird way in crypto first, if you thought bitcoin was hard to understand... go read up on VIX and XIV and the futures trading game around that 😐
If crypto is like college calculus, this stuff is like graduate quantum mechanics
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Crypto is Babies First Investment, right down to the primary colours and unsubtle plot twists.
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I eventually will 🙂
Books are a very demanding investment for me these days.
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Short investopedia article vs long book 😀
Also I’m reading Jose Ortega y Gasset books (relevant for a personal project) first, in parallel with some LeGuin (for fun) and books related to energy (for gig)
But you’re in the stack, and eventually the mood will hit and I will read
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I can see why you were in quant trading. Everything is a race, no matter how trivial/meaningless, including race to the top of my reading pile 😂
You’ll move down 2 spots next week I’m afraid, got 2 books in the mail. I don’t have an actual list but I’d guess you’re in the 10s
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I started with Black-Scholes.
Still think its a mathy way of fetishizing randomness.
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