Weekend readings - 25 Mar'22 : Edition 81

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

“In practical terms, a limit-embracing attitude to time means organizing your days with the understanding that you definitely won’t have time for everything you want to do, or that other people want you to do—and so, at the very least, you can stop beating yourself up for failing. Since hard choices are unavoidable, what matters is learning to make them consciously, deciding what to focus on and what to neglect, rather than letting them get made by default—or deceiving yourself that, with enough hard work and the right time management tricks, you might not have to make them at all. It also means resisting the seductive temptation to ‘keep your options open’—which is really just another way of trying to feel in control—in favor of deliberately making big, daunting, irreversible commitments, which you can’t know in advance will turn out for the best, but which reliably prove more fulfilling in the end. And it means standing firm in the face of FOMO, the ‘fear of missing out,’ because you come to realize that missing out on something—indeed, on almost everything—is basically guaranteed. Which isn’t actually a problem anyway, it turns out, because ‘missing out’ is what makes our choices meaningful in the first place. Every decision to use a portion of time on anything represents the sacrifice of all the other ways in which you could have spent that time, but didn’t—and to willingly make that sacrifice is to take a stand, without reservation, on what matters most to you. I should probably clarify that I have yet to attain perfection in any of these attitudes; I wrote this book for myself, as much as for anyone else, putting my faith in the words of the author Richard Bach: ‘You teach best what you most need to learn.’” —Oliver Burkeman (“Four Thousand Weeks”)

Section 1 - Investing & Personal Finance

Howard Marks talks with the Youth Financial Summit (LINK)

Section 2 - Economic Trends & Themes

Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War! - by Aswath Damodaran (LINK)

How to: Re-evaluate Portfolio for a New Era of Higher Inflation (LINK)

Section 3 - Personality study & Development

Paradoxes of life - by Sahil Bloom (LINK)

Why you continue something without getting undesired results? (LINK)

Section 4 - Business History & management

Inside the Nickel Market Failure: Massive Trades the Exchange Didn’t See (LINK)

Section 5 - Reading & Entertainment

How Chennai became the chess capital of the world (LINK)

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