Weekly Readings -- Sep 22: Essentials

Stop chasing Shortcut

https://seths.blog/2019/09/this-one-simple-trick-makes-everything-faster-and-easier/

Burnout-Anxiety-Stress

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190813-burnout-anxiety-stress-proof-relief

Philosophies -- 1

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/philosophies/

Philosophies -- 2

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/immutable-truths-and-arguing-fools/

To love what you do

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/you-better-love-this/

Weekly Readings -- Sep 21: Offbeat

Does this Schnitzel define Vienna?

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190805-does-this-schnitzel-define-vienna

Earbuds can make you deaf

https://elemental.medium.com/something-you-dont-want-to-hear-about-earbuds-d554e85696b5

There’s a $218 billion design problem sitting in your fridge right now

https://www.fastcompany.com/90397198/the-218-billion-design-problem-sitting-in-your-fridge-right-now

‘Dream the Impossible’: Life Lessons from Keshub Mahindra

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/dream-impossible-life-lessons-keshub-mahindra/

Death by Diet Soda?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/health/diet-soda-health-death.html

Weekly Readings -- Sep 20: Ethics

Is Softbank a ponzi scheme?

https://capitalistexploits.at/hold-my-beer/

Perhaps the fault is somewhere else

https://behaviouralinvestment.com/2019/09/11/why-are-so-many-fund-managers-men/

The Hedge Fund That Wasn't

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1h05md53jtqgc/The-Hedge-Fund-That-Wasn-t

Weekly Readings -- Sep 19: Technology

Chinese shoppers embrace facial payments

https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/09/article/chinese-shoppers-embrace-facial-payments/

Destroying physical infrastructure with software

https://www.wired.com/story/russia-ukraine-cyberattack-power-grid-blackout-destruction/

Weekly Readings -- Sep 18: Personal Finance

The Financial Turing Test

https://ofdollarsanddata.com/the-financial-turing-test/

Value Investing Always Works

https://acquirersmultiple.com/2019/09/joel-greenblatt-it-will-always-be-possible-to-beat-the-market-heres-why/

Weekly Readings -- Sep 17: Investing

Short Investing Beliefs

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/philosophies/

In investments never say never

http://blog.validea.com/never-say-never/

On Market Timing

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/seth-klarmans-3-secrets-value-200246018.html

Learning on Risk Assessment

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-i-learned-from-losing-200-million

Weekly Readings -- Sep 16: Business

A newly-minted Indian VC takes an honest, hard-nosed look at his industry

https://qz.com/india/1703692/a-newly-minted-indian-vc-takes-an-honest-look-at-his-industry/

Technology In Sports

http://www.forbesindia.com/article/forbes-lifes/game-tech-match-indian-sports-teams-are-going-hightech/55155/1

Speak softly and make tough decisions

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/china/speak-softly-make-tough-decisions-an-interview-with-alibaba-group-chairman

How has Microsoft remained outside the purview of investigation this time

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/08/technology/microsoft-brad-smith.html

Weekly Readings: Essential

Why Complexity Sells

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/why-complexity-sells/

Weekly Readings: Offbeat

Wildfires are burning around the world. The most alarming is in the Amazon rainforest.

https://www.vox.com/world/2019/8/20/20813786/wildfire-amazon-rainforest-brazil-siberia

A Search for Miracle: Searching Duke

https://hazlitt.net/longreads/searching-duke

An abduction on Malabar Hills

https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/opinion-an-abduction-on-malabar-hill-1566484737573.html

How mosquitos changed everything

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/how-mosquitoes-changed-everything

How to keep calm in high-stress situations

https://qz.com/1685041/how-to-keep-calm-in-high-stress-situations/

Weekly Readings: Ethics

Sin of Pride: US Attorney General & his encryption policy

https://www.lawfareblog.com/attorney-general-william-barr-encryption-policy

Sin of Greed: Crime of Stupid Codes

https://www.zdnet.com/article/siemens-contractor-pleads-guilty-to-planting-logic-bomb-in-company-spreadsheets/

Weekly Readings: Technology

Won't Fix the bug

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/09/wontfix.html

Identity Theft and Withdrawal of Application

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/identity_theft_.html

Palantir's Surveillance Service for Law Enforcement

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/palantirs_surve.html

Weekly Readings: Personal Finance

The Salary Mirage: Common Calculation Mistake

http://value2wealth.blogspot.com/2019/08/twitter-poll-poll2learn-3.html

Understanding the Returns Perspective

http://value2wealth.blogspot.com/2019/08/twitter-poll-poll2learn-2.html

HUF is losing its charm as a tax savings tool

https://www.rediff.com/business/report/huf-is-losing-its-charm-as-a-tax-saving-tool/20190814.htm

Weekly Readings: Investments

The most impressive investment track record

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/08/who-has-the-most-impressive-investment-track-record/

The cost of capital

https://thereformedbroker.com/2019/06/13/when-everything-that-counts-cant-be-counted/

No one know how to ascertain true value or target price

https://acquirersmultiple.com/2019/08/investors-could-be-missing-out-on-some-big-gains-by-selling-a-stock-that-reaches-its-target-price/

The Five Dimensions of Variant Perception

https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2015/11/27/the-five-dimensions-of-variant-perception/

Weekly Reading -- Aug 25: Places

Travelling North East

https://www.traveldiaryparnashree.com/2019/08/things-no-one-told-you-about-northeast-india.html

Weekly Reading -- Aug 24: Offbeat

All food will be delivered

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/all-food-will-be-delivered/595222/

Something is always happening

https://thewaiterspad.com/2019/08/12/something-is-always-happening/

Weekly Reading -- Aug 23: Ethics

$38 Billion fraud at GE

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49352765

Perspective on Google

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech/

Weekly Reading -- Aug 22: Economics

Inner Wear sales reveals a slowdown

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/cons-products/garments-/-textiles/brief-warning-innerwear-sales-reveal-a-slowdown/articleshow/70694601.cms

Weekly Reading -- Aug 21: Personal Finance

Different Ways to be Rich

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/08/different-ways-to-be-rich-in-2019/

Focus on the Negative Art of Investing

https://novelinvestor.com/howard-marks-the-negative-art-of-investing/

Basics of RERA

https://www.jagoinvestor.com/2019/08/rera.html

The Money Value of Time

https://thefinancialbodyguard.com/the-money-value-of-time/

Weekly Reading -- Aug 20: Investments

The seduction of above average

https://ofdollarsanddata.com/the-seduction-of-above-average/

Bonds are fricking expensive

https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives/Bonds-Are-Frickin-Expensive

The best metric in investing is...

https://acquirersmultiple.com/2019/08/the-single-best-metric-in-investing-is/

The metric of ROE

http://value2wealth.blogspot.com/2019/08/twitter-poll-poll2learn-1.html

The Contrarian Investing For the Decade

https://blog.evergreengavekal.com/an-investment-thesis-for-the-2020s/

Weekly Reading -- Aug 19: Business

Buffett's views on media businesses

www.dhruvapandey.wordpress.com/buffett-views-on-media-businesses

Book review: A bottle of Lies

http://alphaideas.in/2019/08/16/book-review-a-bottle-of-lies/