Another year goes by
My phone rang early this morning. Half asleep, I picked it up. “Happy birthday, Prem”, the voice on the other end said. It was my Dad. After the call, I spent a few minutes thinking. Yet another year...
View ArticleHow do you get smarter?
This was inspired by a great post on Farnamstreet – one of my favorite blogs these days. How do you get smarter? One answer to that is through experience: of your own and that of others (vicarious)...
View ArticleLetters from a self-made merchant to his son – 1
Recently, I casually picked up a free Kindle copy of “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son” when I was feeling bored. Boy, I kept it down only after I finished it. It’s a brilliant book –...
View ArticleLetters from a self-made merchant to his son – 2
This is the 2nd part of my notes from the book “Letters from a self-made merchant to his son”. You could read the first part here. Graham on the art of selling: A salesman has to talk, but before that...
View ArticleThe rule of the farm
I grew up in Ooty on a tiny farm. My dad wasn’t a full time farmer (he was a teacher), but we did have a farm running all the while. It was too small to make us any money, yet my father enjoyed working...
View ArticlePolarity-of-opinion trap
We all have opinions. But – many of us fall into the trap of thinking that what we believe in is the CORRECT side of the equation and that the other needs to be WRONG. Many of us fight tooth-and-nail...
View ArticleEasy and now
“You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” ― Warren Buffett I’ve been thinking a bit of late. There are times when I could have done a much better job of something. I had...
View ArticleGrowing the root
I read this statement by Rahul Dravid in an article and loved it. It’s similar to this post I wrote a while earlier. “When I’m requested to speak to youngsters I like talking about this phase of my...
View ArticleTrue financial freedom
“I want to be financially free, so I can pursue whatever I want in life”. I hear this statement often. A friend and I were discussing money and financial freedom, amongst other things in life. “How...
View ArticleThe ethics of money and business
Ever since 2005, I have really enjoyed studying businesses and have kept my money mostly in publicly listed stocks and since 2011, been interested in building one myself. At the same time, I love and...
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