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You won't learn finance specifics from those books, but they're all great recommendations.

In particular, everyone in this community should read When Genius Failed as a cautionary tale. It had a big impact on my world view. Here's a case where the best and brightest formed an accurate, contrarian hypothesis and executed on it perfectly, but were then blinded by their own cleverness and succumbed to hubris (the partners were leveraging their personal wealth to increase their stakes in their fund) and lost it all.



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