How late is late enough to warrant a message to the awaiting party? Two minutes? Ten? Fifteen? How did your last performance review really go? Did you excel, or were there areas for improvement? More importantly, are you certain your interpretation is the same as your managers?

Off the back of 100 Baggers, Rule Breaker Investing by David Gardner popped up in my Audible recommendations. I’ve never really developed the habit of regularly checking The Motley Fool or listening to its podcasts, but I decided to give this a try anyway as sometimes the medium makes all the difference.

Whenever I head into town, I tend to drop into the local Waterstones and pick up a book without necessarily having one in mind. The Art of Winning by Dan Carter was one I picked up on a such a visit and what a find it turned out to be.

I’ve previously written about Nick & Zak’s Adventures in Capitalism. Although 100 Baggers by Christopher Mayer extends the focus to analysing what makes a 100-bagger, it has a similar underlying theme of patience and long term holding.

When was the decision actually made to drop the atomic bomb on Japan? History lessons tend to focus on the lead-up and the catastrophic aftermath, but less so on the precise moment, or moments when the decision to unless such unprecedented destruction was made.

Some book titles don’t quite do justice to the depth of what’s inside, and Robert Greene’s The 33 Strategies of War definitely falls into that category. By the time you reach the end, it feels as though far more than thirty-three strategies have been explored.

I’m a bit torn on this one. I first came across The New Science of Momentum after hearing Don Yaeger interviewed on The Glue Guys podcast. I loved that episode as the topic of discussion around momentum in sport and business was right up my alley.

I can imagine Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey could split opinion among readers. It’s a very self-reflective and contemplative autobiography, with McConaughey weaving lessons and personal philosophies through the story of his career and life experiences.

People approach money in very different ways. Some find it hard to save; others find it hard to spend. For some who are more pressed for free cash, the choice doesn’t exist at all. Money can be a tool for happiness or a source of stress depending on how it’s managed, or how much power you allow it to hold over you.

I listen to The Acquirers Podcast, hosted by Tobias Carlisle on a weekly basis, so when he announced he had a new book coming out, I was happy to check it out. He’d already discussed its core thesis on his own show as well as in a We Study Billionaires interview, but even with that preview, I underestimated just how much of a valuable read Soldier of Fortune would turn out to be.

Someone asked me recently how I find the books I read, and I replied, “often they find me.” Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire is a perfect example.

As the saying goes, history doesn’t always repeat, but it often rhymes. In reading 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin, it’s hard not to notice the parallels between the market behaviours leading up to the 1929 crash and those we see today.