Journalist and Author
Gregory Zuckerman is a special writer at The Wall Street Journal and a three time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honour in business journalism. He is the author of six books, including the bestselling The Man Who Solved the Market, which tells the story of Renaissance Technologies founder Jim Simons.
by Gregory Zuckerman
Zuckerman chronicles how mathematician Jim Simons built Renaissance Technologies' Medallion fund into the most successful trading operation in history by replacing human judgement with statistical pattern recognition. Drawing on unprecedented access, he shows how a team of code-breakers and physicists turned market inefficiencies into a machine that generated 66% annual gross returns for three decades.
The books Gregory Zuckerman references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Taleb exposes how we underestimate luck in life and markets, mistaking random outcomes for skill. Survivorship bias and narrative fallacy lead us to build false stories around chance events.
by Daniel Kahneman
Kahneman reveals that our minds run on two systems: fast intuition and slow deliberation. Most errors in judgement come from trusting System 1 when the situation demands System 2's careful analysis.
by Philip Tetlock
Tetlock shows forecasting accuracy depends less on intelligence than on cognitive style. The best forecasters are humble, numerate, and constantly update beliefs, foxes outperform hedgehog experts.
Who Gregory draws from, and who draws from Gregory — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.