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Patrick, how much do you read in a given day (eg. hours?) All those words (and the deep knowledge they reveal) must come from somewhere. And what do you read? Not just twitter I suspect.

This article of yours is fascinating: https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/financial-innovation-is-ha...

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Varies wildly by the day (and year); probably two hours at the median. I have an advantage in that this sort of thing was a hobby for me for 20 years and then it became very work-relevant the last 5.

Someday I'll try to curate a reading list but in the meanwhile the sort of things I read are generally the sort of things I link to in essays/on Twitter/etc. Everything from WSJ to Byrne Hobart's newsletter to Fed research papers to e.g. almost any book that looks plausibly interesting about financial fraud (best one: Lying about Money, Dan Davies).

As someone who soaks up information as a sponge, there's a wealth of knowledge to be gained from experts in their field, interactively, and access to Slack at a fintech company provides that in piles. I'm curious, how much time would you say you spend on slack/how do you interact with that?

Have you read up about the world of commodity trading at all? I imagine you’d be interested in the book The World for Sale if you haven’t already read it. Interesting combination of market structure, fraud and geopolitics.

*Lying For Money

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