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Michael Mauboussin

Investment research strategist

An investment-research professional whose career includes senior research roles at investment firms. His own reading list and original interviews connect investing with decision-making and complex systems.

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Books Michael Mauboussin recommends

2 books, each linked to the source where Michael Mauboussin recommended it.

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The Most Important Thing

by Howard Marks · 2011

Mauboussin includes The Most Important Thing in his own recommended reading list.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: Michael Mauboussin

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Recommended reading

Own investing and markets reading-list selection.

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Michael Mauboussin · undated · accessed 2026-10-01

Reading list · Own reading list

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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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Mauboussin includes Waldrop’s Complexity in his own recommended reading list.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: Michael Mauboussin

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Recommended reading

Own complexity and systems reading-list selection.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

Michael Mauboussin · undated · accessed 2026-10-01

Reading list · Own reading list

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Mauboussin praises Waldrop’s Complexity and includes it on a reading list for his son.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: Tim Ferriss

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The Tim Ferriss Show #659

Original discussion of books about the history of ideas. No scientific or investment-return claim is adopted as fact.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

Tim Ferriss · 2023-03-03 · accessed 2026-10-01

Podcast · Original interview reading advice

Own attributed answer at the discussion of Waldrop and the reading list for his son directly inspected. Distinct original event from the undated own-site list; no verbatim transcript excerpt.