Saturday, April 30, 2016

Read, Learn, Improve - 30-Apr-16



“As I have earlier noted, the most important things in life and in business can’t be measured. The trite bromide ‘If you can measure it, you can manage it’ has been a hindrance in the building a great real-world organization, just as it has been a hindrance in evaluating the real-world economy. It is character, not numbers, that make the world go ‘round. How can we possibly measure the qualities of human existence that give our lives and careers meaning? How about grace, kindness, and integrity? What value do we put on passion, devotion, and trust? How much do cheerfulness, the lilt of a human voice, and a touch of pride add to our lives? Tell me, please, if you can, how to value friendship, cooperation, dedication, and spirit. Categorically, the firm that ignores the intangible qualities that the human beings who are our colleagues bring to their careers will never build a great workforce or a great organization.” ― John C. Bogle, Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

Organic Pesticides – Link here

The Poverty of the Wealth Effect – Link here

Pakistan's China Connection to Nuclear Trouble – Link here

Why Luck Matters More Than You Might Think – Link here

Taxi dreams: A tale of two friends – Link here

The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs – Link here

Saving Private Flipkart – Link here

In proof we trust ( Blockchain technology will revolutionise far more than money: it will change your life. Here’s how it actually works) – Link here

Dead man’s sperm (What drives the partners of men who have died to try and have their babies? Jenny Morber delves into the legally and ethically fraught world of post-mortem sperm donation) – Link here

Mark Zuckerberg’s audacious plan to control Facebook as he sells his stock, explained – Link here

Why Google and car companies are about to spend billions mapping American roads – Link here

The Tempest - Have Radhika and Prannoy Roy undermined NDTV? – Link here

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Read, Learn, Improve – 23-Apr-16



Tata Corus: 7 Lessons from a Deal from Hell – Link here

Indian e-commerce in 10 charts – Link here

The new KG scam - By Jairam Ramesh – Link here

How can you make your workplace more cooperative or how to increase team cohesiveness – Link here

Ignore These 7 Questions If You Want to Lose Money – Link here

How Information Graphics Reveal Your Brain’s Blind Spots – Link here

The Rise of the Most Powerful Idea in Investing – Link here

How the world’s wealthy hide millions offshore — from their spouses – Link here

How Finance Took Over the Economy – Link here

A Robot Wants Your Job - The investor of the future may already be incubating in a computer lab. Time to adapt to survive – Link here

Inside the Fall of SunEdison, Once a Darling of the Clean-Energy World – Link here

How politicians poisoned statistics – Link here

Bengaluru Doctor Invents a Rs. 50 Device To Give Throat Cancer Patients Their Voice Again – Link here & Link here

Why Thieves Steal Soap – Link here

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Read,Learn,Improve - 16-Apr-16



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 Social Realities of India’s Electrification, in One Map – Link here

Why ‘the syndicate’ is the construction industry’s worst-kept secret in Kolkata – Link here

Mobile Is Eating the World (2016) (PPT) – Link here

The Most Complicated Stocks – Link here

We are now witnessing Elon Musk’s slow-motion disruption of the global auto industry – Link here

Shocked by the Panama Papers? Blame Switzerland – Link here

(TLR) - The sugar conspiracy - In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long? – Link here

Here’s your proof that Fed moves give stocks a huge boost – Link here

Twitter’s teen influencer - The story of @VinayakSharma19, 17 years and 6 months old, is also the  story of a get paid-to-tweet cottage industry which has sprung up on Twitter – Link here

Why the $15-B sari industry still has no single large player – Link here

 

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Read,Learn,Improve - 9-Apr-16

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If 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 Is Your Brain on Risk – Link here

Too much of a good thing - Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of competition – Link here

It’s Dinner in a Box. But Are Meal Delivery Kits Cooking? – Link here

Money for Nothing: The Lucrative World of Club Appearances – Link here

Would you propose with a diamond grown in a lab? – Link here

Simple vs Complex (don’t miss last para)- Link here

When Measures Become Targets: How Index Investing Changes Indexes – Link here

Monopoly Is Not a Game – Link here

As an Investor, Osama bin Laden Was Bullish on Gold – Link here

Saturday, April 2, 2016

Read, Learn, Improve - 2-Apr-16

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LinkedIn 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 here

Flush With Cash - Inside the unofficial plumbing capital of India – Link here

Weather on Demand: Making It Rain Is Now a Global Business - Welcome to the strange world of cloud seeding – Link here

Ray Dalio, head of the world's largest hedge fund, explains his succession plan for Bridgewater and how its 'radically transparent' culture is misunderstood – Link here

7 Facts About Drugs and Addiction That Will Make You Question Everything You Know – Link here

The What, Why, and How of Quality - Quality may or may not stand on its own, but it seems to bring out the best in value stocks and small caps – Link here

Fraud share transfer game may be much bigger than 2005 IPO scam – Link here

Network Effects - ppt by Andreessen Horowitz – Link here

(Video/YouTube) "Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem – Link here