Category: Read, Learn, Improve

  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 …

(Must Read) Why History Gets Stuff Wrong All the Time – Link here 150-Year Old Startup – Link here Budget 2019: What is this NBFC Rescue Thing All About? – Link here Emmanuel Macron tweets wild video of a man riding a hoverboard, and hints it could be used by the French army – Link here …

  Lost and Found: The Many Acquisitions of a Travel Company – Link here (Aug’18 article) and Link here (Jun’19) – signs were always there, market participates refused to pay heed to the same. Clearing India’s huge backlog of legal cases isn’t quite so tough – 6,000 new judges could do it – Link here …

The Great Property Con: This Haryana Builder ‘Sold’ Land To Retired Soldiers, But There’s A Catch – Link here What is the cafeteria approach that helped Sun Pharma’s Dilip Shanghvi become India’s richest man? His biography ‘The Reluctant Billionaire’ delves into his business strategies – Link here Short note on Cryonics – Link here How …

Six suggestions for the new finance minister – Link here (YouTube) How I Bought This House For $0 – Link here Robocrop: world’s first raspberry-picking robot set to work – Link here Can a man earn a living on sperm donation alone? This guy did – Link here Stop the Financial Pornography! – Link here …

10 learnings from the Lone Wolf of Wall Street – Link here Mother of Dairy Sham. Where Have NDDB’s 16 Subsidiaries Vanished? – Link here Inside The Decades-Long Cage Match Between Mark Zuckerberg And The Winklevoss Twins – Link here (excerpts from book From Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption, by …