Snowball

Finished reading The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life. I think I'd give it a 6/10.

It wasn't a bad book, it was just way too in depth some times.  The book is a door stop, and the information flows liberally at times and with great intention.  So much so that certain sections seem to get bogged down in the finer details of everything that happened to be happening at the same time.  It's a strange bit of craziness. 

Anyways.

Warren Buffet was always a little strange.  He was the kid that had six jobs and was rich before everyone knew what rich was.  He really was. Which is possibly why he ended up becoming as rich as he did.  I guess his major obsession was simply making money.  And with a bit of the right knowledge and a lot of luck, he made a lot of it. 

My primary takeaway on this book is that you need to find an obsession and work towards the end of that obsession until it leads you down a path.  Could be a good path, and it could be a bad path.  It's simply a path.

Buffet worked essentially on concentration throughout this entire life.  Those parts that were important to him, he followed deeply.  Everything else he ignored. 

Things not follow from Warren Buffet: his personal life.  His personal life was flat out strange.  His obsession with various women that he wasn't married to caused all sorts of strangeness in his life.  His disregard for his kids during their formative years also seems to have been critical. 

It that category, he fit in with other visionaries I've read about.  John Boyd comes to mind.  Anyways, I'd say the book is worthy of reading.  Just be prepared to donate a lot of time to it.  I dropped the book half way in (shortly before the Furniture Mart section) just simply due to the large amount of detail.  Part of that detail simply took away from the flow of the book.  

Next up on the list...  Boone.