WHY DO WE WORK SO HARD? – Our jobs have become prisons from which we don’t want to escape – Link here The Right Way to Regulate Prostitution – Link here In perpetual present – the strange case of the woman who couldn’t remember her past and can’t imagine he future – Link here The …
Read More Read,Learn,Improve – 16-Apr-16If there is only one article you have to read today, this is the one – What Were They Thinking? – The problem with studying the past – Link here How Maritime Insurance Built Ancient Rome – Link here How to Hack an Election – Link here The Merger Wave Recedes – Link here This …
Read More Read,Learn,Improve – 9-Apr-16LinkedIn in danger of losing its connection – Link here Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems With Digital Colonialism – Link here Crude Mystery: Where Did 800,000 Barrels of Oil Go? – Link here Machines That Will Think and Feel – Artificial intelligence is still in its infancy—and that should scare us – Link …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 2-Apr-16Read,Learn, Improve – 26-Mar-16 When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages – http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-force-discovered-the-flaw-of-averages.html AlphaGo vs. Lee Se-dol: Why a win for AI is not a lose for humanity – http://www.foundingfuel.com/article/alphago-vs-lee-sedol-why-a-win-for-ai-is-not-a-lose-for-humanity/ Our Economy Is Obsessed with Efficiency and Terrible at Everything Else – https://hbr.org/2016/03/our-economy-is-obsessed-with-efficiency-and-terrible-at-everything-else Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson …
Read More Read,Learn, Improve – 26-Mar-16The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google’s AI Play Go – Link here Your ears are the next frontier of biometric security – Link here Nobody knows anything (oil price edition) – Link here From rags to riches to rags in 12 years: the extraordinary story of Nathan Tinkler – Link here After Cash: All …
Read More Read,Learn, Improve – 19-Mar-16The ETF Files – How the U.S. government inadvertently launched a $3 trillion industry – Link here Inside the Global Scotch Shortage – Link here A Fireside Chat With Charlie Munger – Link here Investor communication: Plugging information asymmetry – Link here Comments on Mistakes and Buffett’s Original Berkshire Purchase – Link here Maybe Bitcoin …
Read More Read,Learn, Improve – 12-Mar-16It seems to be season of typos & mistakes. Since kingfisher is in the air, let me narrate you small funny incident. Yesterday I received a call from a business correspondent asking me “what is the impact on sales of kingfisher beer because of SBI restricting its usage?”, I was taken aback for a moment because to …
Read More Costly typo or mistake – IISo I was at Visharam ghat at Mathura couple of weeks back, I was strolling around and enjoying the serene river view of Yamuna, soft winter air was blowing in my face – overall weather was so pleasant then one feels relaxed and calm. One of the things that everybody who visits Yamuna does it …
Read More What makes people act honest?What’s Next in Computing? – https://medium.com/@cdixon/what-s-next-in-computing-e54b870b80cc#.dt4fke93i The Mahabharata of Indian internet unicorns – http://www.foundingfuel.com/article/the-mahabharata-of-indian-internet-unicorns/ Milton Friedman: The man who gave us monetarism – Witty and insightful quotes from the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century – https://www.valueresearchonline.com/story/h2_storyview.asp?str=30252 The Absolute Return Letter – If only we could blame China – …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 5-Mar-16(not real monkey that took my glasses) Do a random survey of drivers and ask them how many of them think they are above average good drivers and almost 90% or above rate themselves good driver. You step back for a moment and think above that, you would understand how we always think of our …
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