Can we trick our brain into attaching a rubber hand as its own? Rubber Hand Illusion, as shown in the video, rewires our brain to accommodate the new rubber hand. If our brain can be rewired to accommodate a rubber hand, then can we change it to go beyond the limit of its physical body…
Pranesh Srinivasan, a close friend of mine, is an engineer working at Google building intelligent and super fast systems to answer all the world’s questions. Pranesh attended my value investing class, almost four years back, and that’s how I got introduced to him. Truth said I learned more about investing and other disciplines from him.…
What should I invest in, so that I am well prepared for retirement? It is a question that I get asked most often from my friends. My response to them is simple: Invest in yourself. Spend less than you earn. If you can stomach a drawdown of 50+ percent, then invest your savings in a…
Isaac Newton said, “What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.” Click here to read the rest.
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A journey to a thousand miles begins with one step. I published my first blog on The Joys of Compounding almost six years back. Today I am writing my 250th post. In it, I am sharing the name of the books that I enjoyed reading in 2018. Click here to read the rest.
I am continuing with my endeavor of listening to Berkshire AGM while commuting and before falling asleep. I wrapped up with 1998 today. The topics discussed in the AGM are multidisciplinary ranging from business, investing, learning, and life. I am enjoying it like a kid in the candy store. Last time I came across a…
Let us time travel to 1970. You’re sitting on the shores of Marina Beach. You are 35 years old, self-employed, having a family with two kids. You are working hard and saving up money to construct a home. It might take a decade or two to realize your dream to own a home. Click here…
I have been developing a new habit for the last ten days. What’s that habit? I have been listening to Berkshire’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) starting from 1994. How long will I take to complete it all? There are 25 AGMs, and each one would be 5 hours long. If I spend 1.5 hours on average…
Suppose you were lucky to have Uday Kotak as your friend. It was November 1985, and Uday Kotak knocks on your door and offers you to invest one lakh rupees with him. Knowing him personally, you decided to partner with him. Click here to read the rest.
I gave a presentation recently for Indian Investing Conclave Alpha Series. In it, I talk about my approach to investing and a few learnings I had from my recent trip to India. Click here to watch the presentation.
Peter Bevelin is a master in extracting critical passages from great books. He organizes these key passage into themes. Some of the advantages of the theme-based organization are easy lookup, easy recall, and it helps our associative brain as themes act as the central node on which we can hang other ideas and experiences. Click…
