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Meet Charlie Munger: The Latticework

Warren Buffett's partner spent a century collecting mental models — and cheerfully calling folly by its name.

History's richest man started with a ledger recording every cent — and never stopped counting.

Bobbin boy at twelve, steel king at fifty — then he spent the fortune building 2,500 libraries.

She taught computers English, taped the first bug into a logbook, and retired from the Navy at seventy-nine.

He invented the information age in one paper — then spent his celebrity building juggling robots.

Einstein kept his portrait on the wall — the quiet Scot who discovered that light is electromagnetism.

No mathematics, no schooling, no connections — and the greatest experimentalist who ever lived.

He spent years on a beautiful theory, found an eight-arcminute error — and chose the error over the beauty.

Five postulates, thirteen books, twenty-three centuries of trained minds — the most influential textbook ever written.

Eureka was real, the war machines were real — and the mathematics outlived the empire that killed him.