Investor and Business Thinker
Charlie Munger was an American investor, businessman, and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway alongside Warren Buffett. He was renowned for his multidisciplinary approach to decision making and his emphasis on mental models, articulated in Poor Charlie's Almanack.
by Charlie Munger
Munger presents mental models from multiple disciplines, psychology, economics, physics, as tools for better decisions. Real-world problems demand multidisciplinary thinking, not narrow expertise.
The books Charlie Munger references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Robert Cialdini
Cialdini identifies six universal principles of persuasion: reciprocity, commitment, social proof, authority, liking, and scarcity. Understanding these triggers explains why we say yes, and how others get us to comply.
by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins reframes evolution from the organism's perspective to the gene's. Bodies are survival machines built by genes competing to replicate - a view that transformed modern biology.
Who Charlie draws from, and who draws from Charlie — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.