My older brother went to one of those magnet high schools in Korea that sent half the class to Ivy leagues. His high school had a NYT article written about having one of the highest average SAT scores in the world (2200+ something?). I remember one of his best friends went to a US college and worked at SAC capital before the collapse. Towards the end of my high school, my brother gave me a copy of this book and told me this lore.

Took me a couple years to get to it, but the tale is really fascinating. The writer is clearly a journalist, and it does in a way feel like you're reading one long WSJ article. But it still injects enough realism and atmospheric elements that treat the story like a "story". It's an unbelievable tale overall.

Steve Cohen arguably has one of the most fascinating origin stories in high finance. He's not a math savant like Jim Simons, he's not a statistics and computer genius like Ken Griffin or David Shaw, he's not a macro guy with well rounded sharp intellect like Bill Ackman, Chase Coleman, Carl Icahn, or others. He's incredibly smart sure, but no one really understands how he's so good at trading. The author attributes this as his "sixth sense".