Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 04th/05th May 2024
He Turned 55. Then He Started the World’s Most Important Company by Ben Cohen
“The world’s most valuable tech companies were founded in dorm rooms, garages and diners by entrepreneurs who were remarkably young. Bill Gates was 19. Steve Jobs was 21. Jeff Bezos and Jensen Huang were 30. But what might just be the world’s most invaluable company was founded by Morris Chang when he was 55 years old …”
Accidental style icon’: how Larry David became the older man’s fashion idol by Larry Ryan
“The David look entails plain, high-quality white Cotton Citizen T-shirts, well-fitting blazers, cashmere sweatshirts in muted colours, his favoured Ecco shoes and signature Oliver Peoples round glasses. On the golf course, David adds a windbreaker and a baseball cap bearing the logo of former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter’s newsletter, or the word “Menemsha”, the name of a village on Martha’s Vineyard. None of it screams stylishness or a great interest in current trends, more just a man who knows what he likes and is comfortable wearing it ...”
The Psychologist Who Turned the Investing World on Its Head by Jason Zweig
“Daniel Kahneman explained investors to themselves. A psychologist at Princeton University and winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, Kahneman died on March 27, age 90 …”
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