Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It

March 25, 2023

Professor Chris Chabris has a new book coming out: Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It – co-authored authored with Dan Simons.

It’s their first book since “The Invisible Gorilla” which was published 13 years ago!

Chabris tells me that it’s a “cognitive science-based analysis of how con artists, scammers, fraudsters, and other purveyors of deception take advantage of us.”

I can’t wait to read it and look forward to having Chris on my podcast. Especially because he told me that there is a short passage which relates to my experience with being long Farmer Mac – an American financial company – until I saw how much work Bill Ackman had done on the short side.

 

 

I’m a Zurich based investor. Since 1997, I’ve managed a privately offered investment fund known as the Aquamarine Fund.

I am also the author of a book titled The Education of a Value Investor, which was published in 2014.

As I wrote in my book, we are all a work in progress. This site documents my ongoing quest for “wealth, wisdom and enlightenment”.

I have created a /now page – inspired by Derek Sivers

I’m a Zurich based investor. Since 1997, I’ve managed a privately offered investment fund known as the Aquamarine Fund.

I am also the author of a book titled The Education of a Value Investor, which was published in 2014.

As I wrote in my book, we are all a work in progress. This site documents my ongoing quest for “wealth, wisdom and enlightenment”.

I have created a /now page – inspired by Derek Sivers

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