How long does it take to read Poor Charlie's Almanack?
Charles T. Munger
Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger takes about 9 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 23 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2005. 512 pages, about 140,800 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Poor Charlie's Almanack gathers talks and speeches by Charlie Munger, long-serving vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, as put together by editor Peter D. Kaufman. Its title honors Benjamin Franklin, whom Munger admired. The book sets out his multiple mental models approach to decision making, drawing big ideas from many disciplines into a checklist for choices. It explains 25 cognitive biases and why people's psychology leads them into error, and it introduces the Lollapalooza Effect, his term for several biases combining and pushing people toward extremes. Pictures accompany the loosely arranged ideas to make them stick in memory.
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Subjects: Investments, Decision making, Humor, History, Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Humor, topic, business & professional
