Short read: Who are the world’s best investors?
This article might be an eye opener for those who chase IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) in the stock market. Whilst you can excuse those who hope to pocket listing gains and flip (that is if you are not left holding the parcel when the music stops), this piece shows it makes little sense for long […]
Short read: Queer Indians Forge Alternative Careers Amid Workplace Discrimination
Although it has been seven years since the Supreme Court of India decriminalized homosexuality through its landmark judgement in “Navtej Singh Johar vs the Union of India” case, queer friends & relatives continue to report high levels of harassment in their workplace. The numbers cited on this subject in this IndiaSpend piece make for eyewatering […]
Short read: BlackRock Has Built An AI Analyst, ‘Asimov,’ To Scan Filings
India’s tech workforce is already seeing the adverse impact of AI. Next up could be India’s financial analysts and fund managers. This Bloomberg article highlights how Blackrock has created a bot which does what conventional equity analysts do: “BlackRock Inc. is planning for artificial intelligence to have a much bigger role in investing. The world’s […]
Long read: Young People Face a Hiring Crisis. AI Is Making It Worse
Here is yet another manifestation of disintermediating main stream media. Derek Thompson, co-author of the recently published impactful book “Abundance” and one of the finest writers to have written for The Atlantic over the past 17yrs, just quit the magazine publisher to start his own Substack. And in his first post , he explains why he did […]
Long read: ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star
No other industry has been arguably disintermediated more by technology than media. Youtube, Instagram, TikTok and the likes have broken entry barriers for content creators and now have their own versions of the media behemoths of yore. The biggest of them all goes by the pseudonym “Mr Beast”. Most of us with teenage or even […]
Long read: The Allure of Autarky
Ben Chuis policy and analysis correspondent for the BBC. Previously, he was economics editor of Newsnight, the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs programme. He is the author of Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You’ve Heard About China Is Wrong (2013) and Exile Economics: What Happens if Globalisation Falls (2025). In this wide-ranging piece on a […]
Short read: Different Kinds of Smart
Success in investing isn’t as much dependent on your IQ as much as EQ – your emotional quotient. Indeed, too high an IQ could be detrimental as this ability to rationalise anything can make one delusional about the world and their ability to predict the future. In this article, Morgan Housel brings out the point […]
Short read: Air traffic control in the US still uses Windows 95 and floppy disks
Those of who spend our business lives on an aircraft vritually everyday of our lives were left doubly disturbed by the tragic crash in Ahmedabad of a colossal aircraft that we all assumed was un-crashable. Our perturbation has been heightened by what we have seen in America over the past couple of months where air […]
Short read: Are AI models cannibalizing their own creations? With the internet flooded by AI content, experts warn of a looming collapse
Over the past couple of years, we have been told that AI is the greatest thing to come along since the discovery of fire. Turns out that things are a little more complicated than that. Basis the views of a veteran tech journalist Steven Vaughn-Nichols, the ET Online team says: “A new report by VICE […]
Long read: Why birds don’t buy Bentleys and we humans will never fly
Human beings have been the dominant species on the planet for a while now. Not just dominance but also unique in terms of our ability to establish culture and transmit it from generation to generation, something that no other species has managed to come close to exhibit through evolutionary history. The only species or rather […]
Long read: Speak easy: How AI is giving voice to millions of Indians online
Speech recognition technology went mainstream with the likes of Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri. But its biggest use case in terms of adoption by the masses has been in India. India leapfrogged into mobile telephony at a time smartphones were becoming cheaper whilst data tariffs still remain one of the cheapest in the world. The […]
Long read: ‘Humans need solitude’: How being alone can make you happier
Many of us in Marcellus are geeks at heart and enjoy being by ourselves. For much of our lives we were told that there is something wrong with that, that we have to network, socialize, get to know people, go out more, make friends, etc. Now, all of a sudden however, solitude has become cool. […]
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