JL Collins

JL Collins is a financial expert and the author of The Simple Path to Wealth: Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life. He blogs frequently on his website and is known for answering every question and comment he gets. JL believes that everyone can benefit from having open dialogue in a public space.

If you could recommend 3 books to anyone, what would they be?

How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: a Handbook for Personal Liberty by Harry Browne

Those who want to live life on their own terms.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

Anyone who wants to understand where we came from and why we believe and do the wacky things we believe and do.

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling

In an age where we are constantly bombarded with how terrible things are, this is the antidote. The truth is, the world has never been better and there is no better time in history to be alive. This book makes the case with that rarest of tools: Actual facts.

What are you reading now?

The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant

Short, insightful and written in 1968 providing a perspective different from today's.