3 book recommendations from Q1

Hi everyone -

Busy week with all the volatility in the markets. In the absence of something more contemplative, I thought I would share a few books from my reading during Q1.

• All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art by Orlando Whitfield - This was incredibly entertaining. - “Orlando Whitfield and Inigo Philbrick met in 2006 at London’s Goldsmiths University where they became best friends. By 2007 they had started I&O Fine Art…By 2019 things had spiraled enough out of control for Inigo to flee to the remote island nation of Vanuatu, 300 miles west of Fiji. Within a year, he was arrested by the FBI and extradited to America, where he was sentenced to seven years in prison for having committed more than $86 million in fraud.”
  

• Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure by Rinker Buck - This was both enjoyable to read and incredibly interesting
  
  “An epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand “flatboat era” of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America’s first western frontier.”
  

• Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World by Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink I heard Todd interviewed on a podcast and read the book shortly thereafter. “Building on their own research in behavioral science, they outline cognitive facts about how people actually read and distill them into six principles that will transform the power of your writing:”