Reading rank 103
All I Want to Know Is Where I'm Going to Die So I'll Never Go There: Buffett & Munger – A Study in Simplicity and Uncommon, Common Sense
, subject: Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, 2016
A study of decision-making that connects opportunity cost and interest rates with business failure, market excess, practice, and human behavior.
128
Coverage Score
11
Scored evidence
About the book
Through a fictional seeker and a Library of Wisdom, Bevelin organizes Buffett and Munger's ideas about inversion, human misjudgment, simplicity, and avoiding preventable mistakes.
Why read it
Best if you are weighing investment choices or studying business failure and want Buffett and Munger’s thinking connected to opportunity cost, market behavior, practice, and human psychology.
Key themes
- Use inversion to study business failure
- Put investment choices in an opportunity-cost frame
- Treat psychology as part of business
Evidence and original sources
Sources: official Founders episodes — #285, #286, #302, #328, #363, #380
This record is supported by 18 public evidence rows linked to original Founders episodes.
- Jay Gould (How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune) — David names the full book, says he started reading it the previous night, and applies its Munger lesson to the current episode.
- Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger — David identifies this as the featured book discussed throughout the episode.
- Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon) — David ties this Buffett/Munger book to episode 286.
- Tom Murphy (Buffett's favorite manager) — David cites episode 286 coverage of this book while reading a Buffett quote about Tom Murphy.
- Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett — David explicitly identifies this book as covered on episode 286.
- Four Hundred Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words — David explicitly associates the book with episode 286 of Founders.