Weekend Bulletin - 5 May'23 : Ed. 135
Weekend Bulletin - 5 May'23 : Ed. 135
A compilation of few interesting, multi-disciplinary links from the internet
Section 1 - Investing & Personal Finance
Vicious Traps [LINK]
Morgan Housel writes that some of the most vicious traps occur when two admirable traits mix in the wrong way and create something dangerous. They’re the hardest flaws to identify and fix.
Section 2 - Economic Trends & Themes
Opening the lid on two Pandora boxes [LINK]
Merriam-Webster notes that a “Pandora’s box” can be “anything that looks ordinary but may produce unpredictable harmful results.” Thomas Friedman discusses these two trends : AI and Climate Change and asks the big question - What kind of regulations and ethics must we put in place to manage what comes screaming out of these two boxes?
Section 3 - Personality study & Development
A cure in Indian Barber massage videos [LINK]
In what can be described as nothing short of incorrigible to most middle aged people, a story in Factor Daily by Shadma Shaikh describes in detail how the recorded sounds of an Indian barber’s head massage is being used by people world over to relax and cure insomnia.
Section 4 - Business History & management
Nerds, Ninjas and Neutrons [LINK]
This long essay by two American civil servants specialising in nuclear counterterrorism is about NEST, an obscure team within America’s Department of Energy whose job is to defuse nuclear devices. Contrary to what you might expect, these guys have actually been busy defusing nuclear devices across the world.
Elon Musk has figured out the media weakness [LINK]
Why doesn’t the media move on and end its obsession with Elon Musk? This is a question Jack Schafer, the media editor of Politico, raises. And he has a point because all of what Musk talks about is crafted to attract attention or are failures.
Section 5 - Sports, literature & Entertainment
Buried under Mt. Annapurna [LINK]
Only snippets have appeared in the mainstream about the rescue of mountaineer Anurag Maloo from Mt Annapurna. ‘What may have happened?’ is a question that has played on our minds because all accounts have it that he is an accomplished climber. Vandana Menon answers all of it in a thriller of a narrative in The Print.
That's it for me. Have a great weekend ahead!
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