- On Tesla’s competition (and it looks good)
- The 80-20 rule in investing
- In retrospect, obvious. Rainfall as a predictor of assassinations in Ancient Rome
- A long (but rewarding) read on Lagos
- Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, a must listen.
Month: July 2018
Links for 30th July, 2018
- Full fat milk for the win
- Zero carb drinks for, um, not the win
- Who is a protectionist?
- Trade patterns in India and China. I have only scanned the charts, but those alone are worth the read.
- Not just software development
Links for 29th July, 2018
- Rethinking agriculture in India
- The root cause of bad loans
- Thinking about hedging from a corporate perspective
- On the need for cooperative federalism in India
- Rethinking Whatsapp for Indian elections
Links for 28th July, 2018
- The emperor abdicates without a chosen successor
- Simply surreal.
- The most important asset in your life.
- Take long walks is how I interpret this article.
- Of men and mice. And sunk costs. (Via MR)
Links for 27th July, 2018
- A poem for my favorite blog, Marginal Revolution.
- On diagnosing Alzheimer’s better – and earlier.
- Via MR, a nice blog post on how food has traveled over time (and space!)
- Can globalization be reversed? (almost certainly not)
- The aftermath of the Singapore summit
Links for 26th July, 2018
- Nobody knows anything about probability. Probably.
- FT Alphaville claims Elon Musk is a fan of Tripura’s Chief Minister
- The IMF says choppy seas ahead, but we’re ok (so far)
- Understanding NATO (a topic about which I plan to read more in the near future)
- The US performs impressively on carbon emissions
Links for 25th July, 2018
- The telecom sector is struggling in India. That’s putting it mildly.
- Digital payments are (and if you ask me, will continue to as well) struggling in India
- Struggling firms will continue to struggle in India
- A nice essay in the EPW on the struggle to collect data in India
- Some folks are fighting against the struggles we all face
Links for 24th July, 2018
- Risk parity, a primer
- On the makings of a great investor
- Finance on Twitter. An interesting list.
- On Norway and its continuing(?) economic success
- The inception of one of my all time favorite TV series
Links for 23rd July, 2018
- Is your brain wired for wealth (short answer: no)
- This book is high on my must read list. Diane Coyle reviews “The Billionaire Raj”. And from within that review, her review of one of my all time favorite books: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- On the never ending hunt for (mythical?) bubbles
- The World Cup winning team is surprisingly young.
- They just don’t make billionaires like they used to
Links for 22nd July, 2018
- A very long read on the history of steel.
- Going NIMBY on NIMBYism
- “The greatest challenge today, not just in ecology but in all of science, is the accurate and complete description of complex systems.” That is a quote from within this very interesting read, via MR.
- There’s never enough time
- Who smiles more?