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Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
About Charlie Munger
In 1994, at a USC Business School commencement, Charlie Munger delivered a speech titled 'A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates to Investment Management & Business.' That talk crystallized his lifelong project: building a latticework of mental models, drawing from physics, biology, psychology, and economics, to counteract human misjudgment in capital allocation. Unlike most investors who optimize for speed or complexity, Munger insisted on inversion, patience, and the deliberate exclusion of bad ideas before selecting good ones. He co-designed Berkshire Hathaway’s capital-allocation engine not around spreadsheets but around checklists rooted in cognitive bias research decades before behavioral finance entered mainstream curricula. His insistence that ‘the first rule is not to fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool’ wasn’t rhetoric; it was operational doctrine, baked into every acquisition memo and boardroom debate. This isn’t philosophy as ornament, it’s decision architecture forged in 60 years of compound returns and avoided catastrophes.
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- “How did you apply the 'inversion' principle when evaluating See's Candies?”
- “Which mental model do you find most underused by today's CEOs—and why?”
- “What specific psychological bias caused the biggest near-miss in Berkshire's history?”
- “Why did you insist on reading 10-Ks backward—starting with footnotes?”