(Beauty of Leh) India At 70: What A Comparison With 5 Nations Reveals – Link here Why the Gas Station Isn’t a Model for Electric Cars – Link here Netflix Co-Founder’s Crazy Plan: Pay $10 a Month, Go to the Movies All You Want – Link here Inside the world of Silicon Valley’s ‘coasters’ — …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 19-Aug-17(Beauty of Leh) Take the Generic Drug, Patients Are Told — Unless Insurers Say No – Link here After trying to build self-driving tractors for more than 20 years, John Deere has learned a hard truth about autonomy – Link here Has China’s Rise Topped Out? – Link here Mazda boosts petrol engine efficiency in …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 12-Aug-17(Beauty of Leh) Norway Takes Lead in Race to Build Autonomous Cargo Ships – Link here Should America’s Tech Giants Be Broken Up? – Link here What is the future of global finance? – Link here The psychology behind the urge to splurge – Link here Why Corrupt Bankers Avoid Jail – Prosecution of white-collar …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 29-Jul-17(Beauty of Leh) China’s Tough-Talking Theme-Park Mogul Surrenders to Minnie Mouse – Link here (very interesting insights if you are evaluating theme park business) 20 Million Mosquitoes to Hit Fresno; That’s a Good Thing, Really – Link here Will the death of US retail be the next big short? – Link here Curta: a mechanical …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 22-Jul-17(Must Read) – Tim Harford: what we get wrong about technology – Forget flying cars or humanoid robots, the most disruptive inventions are often cheap, simple and easy to overlook – Link here Why have so many people stopped eating ice-cream? – Link here , not to worry about India, case is opposite – Link …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 15-Jul-17Kindly note there would be no Read, Learn, Improve for the week ending 1-Jul-17 and 8-Jul-17. Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it – Link here How Yahoo Blew It – Selling ads against search – it seemed like such a simple thing. But while CEO Terry Semel fumbled and bumbled, Google …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 24-Jun-17How 15,080 Profitable Indian Companies Paid No Tax in 2015-16 – Link here Bulls, Bears & Charlatans – Link here The Unsung Heroes of Investing – Link here No One Has Ever Made a Corruption Machine Like This One – Link here To err is human; so is the failure to admit it – Link …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 17-Jun-17The 1% rule explains why a few people end up with most of the rewards – Link here or Link here The Doctor Is In. Co-Pay? $40,000 – Link here How Ravi Narain built the NSE, and then lost his grip – Link here A Dozen Thoughts from Charlie Munger from the 2017 Berkshire Annual Meeting …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 10-Jun-17I and my friend came across this interesting company, have a look and please let me know your views/feedback/comment, anything on the same – Link here Mumbai has an efficient, exclusive food-delivery service—if you can afford it – Link here WHY WE LIE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND OUR DECEPTIVE WAYS – Honesty may be the best policy, but …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 3-Jun-17Only Robots Can Tally What the Largest U.S. Pension Fund Pays in Fees –Link here Church of England made stunning 17% return on investments in 2016 –Link here – not sure if Mumbai’s Siddhivinayak or Shirdi Saibaba trust or any such religious trust have an active manager, I think it’s time their start doing …
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