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Ep. 18: James Altucher on Saying No, Failing Better, Business Building, and More

The Tim Ferriss Show

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I Like Literary Fiction and I Like Non Fiction

i like to read books that have been they're like the heavily curated thoughts of good writers. I always start up with really good fiction, as opposed to non fiction. With non fiction, you usually get a writer who is very good at what they did. So i always start off with somebody i'm reading for the writing, and then i'll start ing, you know, interesting non fiction. You could see yours first book nobody's readis called dynamic hedging. Its about option straitingitIt's very, very technical, hard to read book, impossible to read books. But then you could see in fooled by rand on this and the black swan: oh, this writing

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