Eccentric reading recommendations

What books, newsletters, and/or papers do you recommend that you think gave you a (slight) edge in making investment decisions?

An example is from Capital Returns, where Marathon Asset Management recommends a book on the Cod's history, written by Mark Kurlansky, to understand the capital cycle.

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'Order of time' it's a science and physics book.

But I deal with volatility strategy, which is non-linear and time-sensitive. 

Like gravity bend time - time is relative.

With volatility strategy, time around events is also being bent in non-linear way. To make it simple to understand, 1 hour before market moving event like FOMC will be different to 1 random hour in regular trading hours in a typical non-news day. 

 

This is obviously just a marketing gimmick... Like a bunch of hipsters all thinking they're special because they only drink coffee from south-central Guatemalan bat-pee covered coffee beans, so does every investment professional attempt to mimic George Soros's relationship with Popper's Open Society. And Soros obviously does it himself. First he makes a shit ton of money, then he finds some reason (reflexivity) why he made the money. 

Can't believe you would read completely esoteric books just to get better at investing. Reading a book out of simple intellectual curiosity - great. But reading a book on worms, war, cows, or fish, just to get better at investing seems like a poor strategy. 

 

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