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The Infant Learner
Some stuff I read this week:
A. This week’s Special:-
Interview With Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis has published many New York Times bestselling books on various subjects. His most recent works are Flash Boys, The Big Short, and Boomerang, narratives set in the global financial crisis. The Blind Side, published in 2006, tells the story of Michael Oher, a poor, illiterate African-American kid living on the streets of Memphis whose life is transformed after he is adopted by white Evangelical Christians. Before that he wrote Moneyball, a book ostensibly about baseball but also about the way markets value people. Both of his books about sports became movies, nominated for Academy Awards, as did his book about the 2008 financial crisis, The Big Short. His other works include The New New Thing, about Silicon Valley during the Internet boom; Coach, about the transformative powers of his own high school baseball coach; Losers, about the 1996 Presidential campaign; and Liar’s Poker, a Wall Street story based in part on his own experience working as a bond salesman for Salomon Brothers.
Mr. Lewis is a columnist for Bloomberg View and a contributing writer to Vanity Fair. He holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from Princeton and a master’s degree in economics from the London School of Economics.
He recently published his book:”The Undoing Project“. He interviewed by Mr. Barry Ritholtz. Kindly access to the below links for detailed interview:
Link 1 : Interview With Michael Lewis ( OC )
Link 2 : The Undoing Project Review ( TG )
Link 3 : The Story Behind Moneyball ( HO )
B. Entrepreneurial Diary
( “Business means solution of a particular problem and Creating value for customer as well as value for company ” – Paramjeet Redu )
My Favorite Fanatics of 2016 : Bill Gates ( GN )
A history of the authentically global beer ( ET )
Farnam Street’s 2016 Annual Letter to Readers ( FS )
The Great A.I. Awakening ( NY )
How technology is merging with the human body ( TC )
World’s largest hedge fund to replace managers with artificial intelligence ( TG )
What You Can Learn about Business from a Dozen Lines in the Godfather ( IQ )
C. Other Stories
Living Legends ( CF )
How Can I Hurt You? ( MC )
A Collection of regrets ( BS )
Power of doing Nothing ( TF )
How to Evaluate business ( CE )
Cognitive bias cheat sheet ( BH )
2016’s Most Important Ideas ( TC )
The Tyranny of Improvement ( CB )
Behavioural finance: Money illusion ( TB )
A good metric is hard to find – Return on Capital ( SB )
Procrastination: The Hidden Value of Delaying ( UV )
Business Quality: The Great, the Good, and the Gruesome ( HC )
“I read everything: annual reports, 10k’s, 10q’s, biographies, histories, five newspapers a day. On airplanes, I read the instructions on the backs of seats. Reading is key. Reading has made me rich over time” – Warren Buffett
“I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you” – Charlie Munger
You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better”- Carol Dweck