This book was not only educational to students of the markets but was also entertaining with a compelling narrative storyline that showed how Jim Simons transitioned from a math academician to become the most successful hedge fund manager in history.
Although not stated explicitly, Simons and the team at Renaissance Technologies developed models that adhered to the Casino Paradigm by combining a positive expectancy model with solid risk management protocols.
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'Reads more like a delicious page-turning novel...Put it on your holiday gift list for your favourite hedge-fund honcho' Bloomberg
'A compelling read' Economist
'Captivating' New York Times book review
Jim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history. His record bests those of legendary investors, including Warren Buffett, George Soros and Ray Dalio. Yet Simons and his strategies are shrouded in mystery. The financial industry has long craved a look inside Simons's secretive hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies and…
Unlike a lot of self-help and/or spiritual books that ask us to believe and have faith in various “concepts”, Singer’s book offers practical and scientifically sound methods for personal growth and spiritual transformation.
I was able to apply his methodology of strengthening Witness Consciousness immediately. The book is a life-changing experience that sticks with you long after its pages are shelved. That stated, it is the type of book to be read and re-read as doing so wears down old suboptimal patterns of behavior and, “untethers the soul.”
Who are you? When you start to explore this question, you find out how elusive it really is. Are you a physical body? A collection of experiences and memories? A partner to relationships? Each time you consider aspects of yourself, you realize that there is much more to you than any of these can define. In this book, spiritual teacher Michael Singer explores the question of who we are and arrives at the conclusion that our identity is to be found in our consciousness, the fact of our ability to observe ourselves and the world around us. By tapping into…
Although this was not my first reading, I was happy that I decided to re-read Blood Meridian as the intensely graphic violence of the novel ruined my first read. Fortunately, I enjoy McCarthy’s prose and mythic writing so much that I decided to give Blood Meridian a second chance.
This second time around, McCarthy’s artistry and wisdom overshadowed the violence and redeemed the novel for me.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
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