Weekend readings - 12 Aug'22 : Ed. 100

A compilation of few interesting, multi-disciplinary links from the internet

[ A newsletter which was started 2yrs ago as a prime motivation of “self-notes” has now completed 100 editions. Many thanks for those who have been reading it during this journey. Given the feedback, we will be launching the newsletter with few changes from next weekend onwards. Stay with us for the next 100!]

“I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. Indeed I have had no choice but to act in this manner, for with the exception of the Coral Reefs, I cannot remember a single first-formed hypothesis which had not after a time to be given up or greatly modified. This has naturally led me to distrust greatly deductive reasoning in the mixed sciences.” —Charles Darwin

Section 1 - Investing & Personal Finance

Rare skills by Morgan Housel [LINK]

What I learned from Prof. Sanjay Bakshi’s Behavioral Economics Course at FLAME University - by Jana Vembunarayanan [LINK]

Section 2 - Economic Trends & Themes

Lessons from Chaos theory for inflation [LINK]

From Great Moderation to Great Stagflation - by Nouriel Roubini [LINK]

Section 3 - Personality study & Development

​To Get Out of Your Head, Get Out of Your House [LINK]

Tim Ferris Podcast : Interview with himself [LINK]

Section 4 - Business History & management

​How Bihar’s artists rode out the Covid crisis with tech & tradition [LINK]

The greatest value investor you have never heard of - The story of Floyd Odlum [LINK]

He defined a special situation as “an investment […] involving not only primary financial sponsorship, but usually also responsibility for [the] management of the enterprise.” The former lawyer wasn’t interested in flipping a business for a quick buck, either.

Embedded in Odlum’s strategy was the determination to see a special situation through until success, “[We will] stay with the investment until the essentials of the job have been done, and then move on [to] another special situation”.

Section 5 - Reading & Entertainment

The story of India’s new Badminton sensation - Lakshya Sen [LINK]

​The strange case of the cricket match which funded Imran Khan’s political rise [LINK]

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Now listening : ​"Sarhadein" - Nidhi Narwal ft Samuel | UnErase Poetry [LINK]

Now reading : ​[Book 32 of 2022] - ​Expectations Investing [LINK]

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