The Eleven Talks of Poor Charlie’s Almanack

These are Kyle’s long-form notes that sit alongside his book notes on Poor Charlie’s Almanack.

Chapter Four of Poor Charlie’s Almanack is itself a collection of eleven talks — speeches and addresses Charlie Munger delivered between 1986 and 2000, gathered and annotated by Peter Kaufman. Rather than fold them into the single book page, each talk gets its own long-form note here so the highlights and annotations can stand on their own and cross-link freely.

The Eleven Talks

1. Charlie Munger: Harvard School Commencement Speech
2. Charlie Munger: A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom
3. Charlie Munger: A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom, Revisited
4. Charlie Munger: Practical Thought About Practical Thought?
5. Charlie Munger: Harvard Law School Fiftieth Reunion Address
6. Charlie Munger: Investment Practices of Leading Charitable Foundations
7. Charlie Munger: Philanthropy Roundtable
8. Charlie Munger: The Great Financial Scandal of 2003
9. Charlie Munger: Academic Economics
10. Charlie Munger: USC Gould School of Law Commencement Address
11. Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment

How it connects

• Poor Charlie’s Almanack — the parent book; these talks are Chapter Four.
• Charlie Munger — the speaker across all eleven talks.
• Charlie Munger: A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom and Charlie Munger: A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom, Revisited — Munger’s core multidisciplinary “worldly wisdom” talks.
• Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment — the capstone talk cataloging the standard causes of human misjudgment.
• Charlie Munger: Harvard School Commencement Speech and Charlie Munger: USC Gould School of Law Commencement Address — the commencement addresses among the eleven.
• Charlie Munger: Practical Thought About Practical Thought? and Charlie Munger: Academic Economics — talks applying his latticework of models to problem-solving and to the failings of economics.
• Charlie Munger: Harvard Law School Fiftieth Reunion Address, Charlie Munger: Investment Practices of Leading Charitable Foundations, Charlie Munger: Philanthropy Roundtable, and Charlie Munger: The Great Financial Scandal of 2003 — the remaining talks in the collection.