Happy Diwali and Prosperous New Year (Samvat 2076) This book was gifted to me by one of the blog follower and have to say it’s must read. Scale is written by Geoffrey West, who is theoretical physicist and but this book seems to show his area of interest is much more than that, he tries …
Read More Happy Diwali from ScalesWishing 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 – …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 26-Oct-19Non-Ergodicity and its Implications for Businesses and Investors – Link here Unicorn Feces Season 1, Episode 1: SoftBank and Real Estate – Link here It’s a great time to be an influencer on Instagram or TikTok in India – Link here Abhijit Banerjee’s prescription for Indian economy: ‘Stop PMO interference, raise NREGA wages, pray’ – …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 19-Oct-19Three 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 …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 12-Oct-19Kindly 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 …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 28-Sep-19How 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 …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 21-Sep-19(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 …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 14-Sep-19(Must Read) What I Learned from Losing $200 Million – Link here – Lines that caught my attention “It takes a model to beat a model,” There were many other decisions and guesses, some made alone, others with help from my team, and still others made by my boss. All were guesswork, none could …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 7-Sep-19The 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 …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 31-Aug-19Self-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 …
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