Read, Learn, Improve – 21-Mar-20

India has become the fifth country to successfully isolate the virus strain of Covid-19/Corona Virus (means scientists have successfully obtained a pure sample of the virus, which they have contained outside the human body and can then study) after Japan, Thailand, United States of America and China – Link here  In 2003, it took a …

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Read, Learn, Improve – 14-Mar-20

(Must See) (YouTube) Why new diseases keep appearing in China – Link here Story in nutshell – in 1970s China was kind of falling apart, there was famine & people were starving and dying. Given govt controlled all production; they were unable to feed population. Then govt stepped on reform (late 1978-80) opened by farming …

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Read, Learn, Improve – 7-Mar-20

Identifying Intent of the Management from RoIC (Return on Invested Capital) – Link here The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It – Link here Corona Panic – Link here SBI Cards IPO: long thread on valuation disasters in Indian markets & how these rip off the retail investors – Link here …

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Read, Learn, Improve – 29-Feb-20

  100 Little Ideas – Link here How Mount Everest became a multimillion-dollar business – Link here Why David can’t get the better of Goliath this time. (bunder vs kingfisher) – Link here Markets Have ALWAYS Been Rigged, Broken & Manipulated – Link here I DON’T KNOW – Link here BlackRock’s black box: the technology …

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Read, Learn, Improve – 22-Feb-20

Investing Is More Luck Than Talent – Link here Useful Laws of the Land – Link here Today I Learned That Not Everyone Has An Internal Monologue And It Has Ruined My Day – Link here Inside Amazon’s Very Weird (But Very Efficient) Staff Meetings – Link here You’re Not Listening. Here’s Why. – Link …

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Read, Learn, Improve – 15-Feb-20

  Nobody Told Me – Link here The Golden Age of White Collar Crime – Link here The Carbon Footprint of the Food Supply Chain – Link here How One Value Investor Is Weathering the Strategy’s Underperformance – Link here Why Airbnb is suddenly struggling to make money – Link here Independent Director: Senior CA …

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Read, Learn, Improve – 8-Feb-20

The State Of Tech And The Outlook For Regulation – Link here Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds – Link here Five Lessons from History – Link here 50 Cognitive Biases in the Modern World – Link here Fertility Inc.: Inside the big business of babymaking – Link here Meet the super humans – Link …

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Read, Learn, Improve – 1-Feb-20

  Why Manhattan’s Skyscrapers Are Empty – Link here Why it only costs $10k to ‘own’ a Chick-fil-A franchise – Link here ‘Like sending bees to war’: the deadly truth behind your almond milk obsession – Link here Is rationality overrated? – Link here He Wanted a Unicorn. He Got … a Sustainable Business – …

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Read, Learn, Improve – 18-Jan-20

  Kindly note there will be no edition of Read, Learn,Improve for the week ending 25-Jan-20 How to lose a monopoly: Microsoft, IBM and anti-trust – Link here Google will let Android users in Europe choose a different default search engine – Link here – years ago Microsoft took advantage of its monopoly in operating …

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Read, Learn, Improve – 11-Jan-20

  2020: What a Time To Be Alive – Link here (YouTube) Google and Amazon are now in the oil business – Link here An elegy for cash: the technology we might never replace – Link here ‘Women have less ego. Men think: How hard can this be?’: the female ultra-athletes leading the field – …

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