Charles T. Munger (1924–2023)

I know it's silly in some ways, but I love a good commencement speech. I want condensed wisdom. Bundle up a ball of good decisions and success and give it to me in like 20 minutes or less. It's like searching for the "answer key" to life... and yet acknowledging it doesn't exist.

And yet! I always learn something.

On Success was a random impulse buy at the local used bookstore. There are three chapters. The first two take up only about 25% of the book, and are Munger's two commencement show more speeches. The third chapter is a list of his 25 psychological tendencies, which overlapped with a host of cognitive biases.

I'm sure there's more wisdom in this little book than I realize. It'll be one I look at again. show less

Too long to be a good introductory book to Charlie munger, which was my intended use case, so I skimmed to chapters that were about his multiple mental models and found that exercise most useful. Other generalities about law and immoral behavior wasn't helpful.

Poor Charlie wasn’t only rich in wealth, but in worldly wisdom. He preaches the importance of humility, transparency, and having a breadth of complete ("Planck") knowledge in life.

This book is about the wisdom and wit of Charlie Munger (as the title suggests), the partner of Warren Buffett. I like his multi-disciplinary approach to tackle problems e.g. he uses psychology, physics, engineering, economics etc to understand and solve business problems. I also like the quote he used (which was quoted by Benjamin Franklin):

Appeal to interest, not reason.

This is speaking to me louder and louder each day...