If you were in the Northeast for Memorial Day weekend, you know the weather wasn
By Laura Meyer · May 29, 2026 · Curated by George's Blog
If you were in the Northeast for Memorial Day weekend, you know the weather wasn’t exactly ideal. Which meant I spent most of the weekend curled up reading The Psychology of Money after picking it up in the airport on my way home from Chicago last week.
It’s one of the few business/self-development books I’ve actually read cover to cover in years. Usually I get halfway through these books and realize the author is just repeating the same point in increasingly creative ways, or sharing formulas and templates that aren’t always transferable.
A few ideas really stuck with me:
• Wealth is often what you don’t see. We celebrate making money far more than we celebrate keeping it.
• Defining what is "enough."
• Doing well financially has less to do with intelligence and more to do with behavior, patience, and emotional discipline.
One section made me laugh because it reminded me of myself in my early 20s. The first time I got a meaningful raise in corporate America, I immediately went to Fifth Avenue and bought a pair of Ferragamo shoes because I thought that’s what successful adults did. No one at that point in my life had taught me that money was a tool, not a toy.
Another concept that really resonated with me was the idea of tailwinds. We tend to look at successful businesses, investors, and careers and focus on the outcome, while forgetting how much uncertainty, failure, bad timing, and pain happened along the way.
Running a business has taught me this firsthand. There are difficult people, failed ideas, economic cycles, bad investments, and periods where you feel stuck. But nine years later, I objectively have a very successful business. The same applies to investing. What makes people like Warren Buffett extraordinary isn’t that every decision worked; it’s that he and Charlie Munger stayed in the game long enough for time and compounding to work in their favor.
Curious, what’s a book you’ve read recently that genuinely stuck with you?