Category: Read, Learn, Improve

Wishing you and your family a very Happy Diwali and Prosperous New Year If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance – Link here McDonald’s, Uber and Johnson & Johnson no longer have chief marketing officers — here’s what that means – Link here Seven Sins of Fund Management – …

  Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Shaping the World – Link here The Map and the Terrain – Link here Everything Is Private Equity Now – Link here How vintage football shirts became big business – Link here Schwab and Ameritrade Are Cutting Stock Trade Fees to $0. What’s the Catch? – Link …

Kindly take a note, there would be no “Read, Learn, Improve” for week ending 5-Oct-19 HDFC AMC’s Prashant Jain interview on corporate tax cut and other – Link here Is WeWork a Fraud? – Link here “Burn the Boats” – Mental Models in History – Link here Tesla May Soon Have a Battery That Can …

How David Swensen Made Yale Fabulously Rich – He walked away from the stock market, built a network of elite private funds, and created a fortune with no end in sight – Link here No One Wants to Hire the Fired Wells Fargo Branch Staffers – Link here How to Tell if Someone is a …

(Must Read) Practitioners’ insights: Investing Wisdom from a Library of Mistakes – Kuntal Shah – Link here Vivimed Labs Did Not Disclose Transfer and Sale of Business Units, Twice – Link here How Bangladesh Has Overtaken India In Garment Exports – Link here What Is a Tech Company? – Link here (YouTube) ISRO’s Grit And …

  The Financialization of the American Elite – Link here Long vs. Short: Has Netflix Peaked? – Link here We’ve worried about overpopulation for centuries. And we’ve always been wrong – Link here Once listed for $1 billion. Sold for $100,000. What just happened? – Link here Why Complexity Sells – Link here How robotic …

  Self-Driving Cars Are Still Years Away. That’s Probably A Good Thing. – Link here Khadim’s – the Pomeranian that wants to be an Alsation – Link here A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard – Link here WeWTF –Link here The Seduction of Above Average – Link here The Laws of Investing – Link here …

  Kindly note there will be no Read, Learn, Improve for week ending 17-Aug-19 (Must Read) My worry is slowdown will last longer than anticipated: Amitabh Chaudhry, Axis Bank – Link here Facebook is building tech to read your mind. The ethical implications are staggering – Link here The Rise of Scandal Insurance in Hollywood …

  The Secret History of Why Soda Companies Switched From Sugar to High-Fructose Corn Syrup – Link here Brain drain claimed 1.7 million youths. So this country is scrapping its income tax – Link here Stranger Things: Why Netflix Will Not Survive The Streaming Wars – Link here When media consolidation is good – Link …

(Must read) The Psychology of Prediction – Link here The science of regrettable decisions – Link here – given the nature of the business we are in, this makes for interesting read. A Peculiarly Dutch Summer Rite: Children Let Loose in the Night Woods – Link here Audit Farce – I: How Companies Can Cook …