Over the past fortnight, trainee IAS office Puja Khedkar and her parents have made the headlines for the wrong reasons. Water cooler and tea stall chats across the nation about Ms Khedkar’s conduct has brought to the fore an even nastier problem which Amana Begum highlights in this article: “…Puja Khedkar’s case, involving selection through alleged […]
Plenty of research has shown time and time again that the biggest source of happiness is our social connections (only health is bigger). Yet, most of us end up ignoring some of our most precious relationships as we get caught up in our pursuit of professional success or its exigencies. In this blog, Rob Henderson […]
It seemed appropriate to follow up Howard Marks’ memo with this newsletter from Josh Tarasoff from Green Lea Lane Capital as it picks up the thread on the inherent unpredictability in investing. Except Josh extends this to beyond investing to business and in fact any complex adaptive system. More importantly, he establishes the multi-variate nature […]
Intellectual humility is often regarded as one of the most important traits to succeed in investing. So, when Howard Marks writes a memo on it, we have to feature it for he has been quite vocal on the subject of the inherent uncertainty in investing, markets and the economy. Yet, many of us mistake a […]
If you are a liberal, you will love this long graphics heavy read from Jeff Bezos owned Washington Post. If you are a conservative, you might not like the piece, but we would recommend that you read it to understand how the journalism of the future will look like – combining graphics, animation and text, […]
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Arguably, the game of cricket lends itself to statistical analysis more than any other sport. Hence, it is no surprise that a statistician has had a significant influence on the game as it is played today. We are talking about Frank Duckworth, who passed away last month. Duckworth, a member of the Royal Statistical Society […]
The boom in Generative AI is real if Nvidia’s shares are anything to go by. Indeed, Nvidia became the largest company on the planet by market cap briefly last month, its market cap rising ten times in a year and a half to over $3trn. It is not just its market cap but also its […]
Did you know that “Indian laws do not mandate that spices sold in domestic market be tested for any pesticide residue”? We didn’t know this either until we read this informative piece by Tabassum Barnagarwala. As many of us have learnt over the past couple of months regulators in various countries (UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, […]
Last week, we featured a piece trying to help us distinguish between real experts vs imitators amongst people we encounter in our lives. Here’s another piece helping us distinguish between two kinds of stubborn – one the helpful kind or persistent, the other not so useful, the obstinate. And to help us clarify our thinking […]
Harshad Shah is a Chartered Accountant with an independent practice in India. We don’t know him personally but this long & hard hitting blog from Mr Shah was brought to our attention by a switched on civil servant in Delhi. Whilst we are not in a position to verify the facts & figures cited in […]
One of the most visibly positive results of the proliferation of AI is the manner in which it is helping us humans decode the languages of animals. Sperm whales are the latest species to have their language decoded by various groups of scientists in Europe and America thanks to AI. As Katherine Latham and Anna […]
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