Primary source
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Compiled by Charles T. Munger, edited by Peter D. Kaufman · 2005 · grounds Charlie Munger
Overview
Munger's talks, speeches, and practical maxims on multidisciplinary thinking, incentives, human misjudgment, inversion, opportunity cost, and becoming a learning machine, supplemented here by his first-person account of the Berkshire system in the 2014 shareholder letter.
A full write-up of this book has not been published yet.
Skills drawn from this book
Installable Claude Code skills grounded in this text. Each one teaches a framework the book actually argues for.
/charlie-munger:charlie-mungerThe Munger Rationality ChecklistInvert the problem, remove ruin, follow incentives, use several mental models, and compare the best alternatives.
/charlie-munger:invert-the-problemInvert the ProblemSolve forward by first identifying the conditions that guarantee failure and systematically avoiding them.
/charlie-munger:incentive-auditIncentive AuditPredict behavior by mapping what the system rewards, punishes, measures, and allows people to rationalize.
/charlie-munger:lollapalooza-checkLollapalooza Bias CheckDetect when several ordinary psychological tendencies combine to produce an extreme and irrational result.
/charlie-munger:berkshire-systemThe Berkshire SystemDesign a low-bureaucracy organization where autonomy, trust, capital discipline, and reputation reinforce one another.
/charlie-munger:deserved-trustDeserved TrustBuild relationships and systems by becoming the kind of partner whose promises, incentives, and conduct deserve trust.