A review by linwang77
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis

3.0

I’m not a huge fan of non fiction so the fact that I read this in one night is probably a good sign. Although maybe that’s just because I was reading it for the work gossip. I haven’t read any of Michael Lewis’ other books, but I could totally see how he was basically writing this to become a movie a la big short. I read a review that was like “oh he still didn’t answer the question of who SBF is” but I think he did. Basically a guy born with little emotional capacity but a lot of intellectual capacity who got rewarded for that at a young age and therefore felt little consequence to change and reinforcement that he was doing the right thing. I do think Lewis drank a little of the koolaid from his time with SBF and maybe that made him write SBF as more unknowable and mysterious rather than a fraud and deeply narcissistic.