Wait, Frank Partnoy
Wait, Frank Partnoy
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Wait
The Art and Science of Delay

Author: Frank Partnoy

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/26/2012


Synopsis

A passionate polemic in favor of pausing to think, not blink What do these scenarios have in common: a professional tennis player returning a serve, a woman evaluating a first date across the table, a naval officer assessing a threat to his ship, and a comedian about to reveal a punch line? In this counterintuitive and insightful work, author Frank Partnoy weaves together findings from hundreds of scientific studies and interviews with wide-ranging experts to craft a picture of effective decision making that runs contrary to our brutally fast-paced world. Thought technology is exerting new pressures to speed up our lives, it turns out that the choices we makeunconsciously and consciously, in time frames varying from milliseconds to yearsbenefit profoundly from delay. Taking control of time and slowing down our responses yields better results in almost every arena of lifeeven when time seems to be of the essence. The procrastinator in all of us will delight in Partnoys accounts of celebrity delay specialists, from Warren Buffett to Chris Evert to Steve Kroft, underscoring the myriad ways in which delaying our reactions to everyday choiceslarge and smallcan improve the quality of our lives.

About Frank Partnoy

Frank Partnoy is the George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance and is codirector of the Center on Corporate and Securities Law at the University of San Diego. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the complexities of modern finance and financial market regulation. He is the author of F.I.A.S.C.O.: Blood in the Water on Wall Street; Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets; and The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Riku

If it works, you are a "delay specialist" and your delay was strategic - kudos to you. If it doesn't, you are a mere procrastinator who cant tell a minute hand from an hour hand - shame on you.......more

My first professional job as a Librarian was in 1972 at the Worcester Public Library, with long hair and a beard and fire in my belly to save the world with equal access to information. Library Director Joseph S. Hopkins described an administrative strategy of never making any decision until forced......more

Quick, from the title alone, what's book is the opposite of this? If you said Blink by Malcom Gladwell, then you and I have the same thought process. The subtitle of this book is "The Art and Science of Delay", which is so different from the thin-slicing concept in Blink. But, apart from the subject......more

Goodreads review by Eric

The problem with Frank Partnoy’s Wait can be summed up through his story of UNX, a high frequency trading firm. Unlike day trading, where humans quickly buy and sell stocks, HFT is entirely computerized. Advanced algorithms make millions of trades a day and enact them quicker than any human could ho......more