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Title: pseudo-intellectual junk
Review: This book is easy to read quickly, and not worth reading slowly. It is an unorganized collection of short, repetitive essays that draw analogies between choosing investments and findings from psychology and other areas of science. Nothing here is novel to anyone who reads magazines like Wired, or book reviews in the Economist, among other sources. Nothing in this book is quantitatively precise or directly applicable. Everything is suggestive, that's all. Parts may be thought-provoking if you haven't seen them before, but everything is derivative of other authors.This book was written to make a buck, that's all. The editing is cynically sloppy. For example, the table on 56 is an update of the table on page 75, but neither page has a reference to the other. The author teaches a class related to this book in the Columbia University MBA program. I hope the class has some rigor; this book does not.
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