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Recently watched an excellent Interview (link at the end) of @Elon Musk by @Lex Friedman. And as Lex rightly pointed out in his opening remarks, Elon is someone who has given hope back to humanity in a bunch of different ways. Even more so in these tough times. I also noticed that, Elon has a few key ideas that he often talks about in most of these enriching conversations. Attempting to take a quick look at some of them in here. Orders of Magnitude Simply means, in powers of 10. An order of...

The more I practice, the luckier I get. ~Gary Player How would you know if someone is successful because of skill or luck? Depends on what's the pursuit that we are trying to evaluate. Most human endeavours lie somewhere on this luck vs. skill spectrum. Some areas such as a casino or a Russian roulette are pure luck driven. While others such as elite professional sport would skew more towards skill. In investing (especially equity) most people who are successful in the long run, a...

One of the most profound books ever! Also, one of the shortest. At around 11000 words, takes about a couple of hours or so to read. This is one the those Antifragile books. One that has truly stood the test of time. Written 2 millenia ago by a roman stoic philosopher who's life was indeed a tale worth telling. Here are a few snippets from the book to read and reflect. It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in...

If I had only 18 minutes to understand the most important technology of our times, this video from Henrik Kniberg is the ONLY one I would watch! ...

I don't know about me... to be totally honest with you I am probably not! If this is new to you, you can learn more about it from wikipedia and Puttylike. Now that you know the definitions, you probably also know that it's similar to a polymath or rennaisance man/woman and several other synonyms that you've heard of in the past and linked with many geniuses like Leonardo Da Vinci or Benjamin Franklin or even the Last Man Who Knew Everything. Seems like an interesting thing to explore and l...

Every Sunday, I share a few(3-5) links and snippets of content that are useful in some way(or so I think). Something informative, interesting or at least entertaining. This week's collection focuses on thinking, productivity and optionality Morgan Housel is an accomplished investors and an advocate of simplicity. He is also an incredible writer, here he attempts to describe some of the most common aspects of how people think. Anne-Laure Le Cunff whose a PhD in Neuro-education has identified...