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The Infant Learner

Some stuff I read this week:

A.  This week’s Special:- 

Academic Practitioner: André Perold

André Perold is a Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of HighVista Strategies, a Boston-based investment firm. HighVista employs an approach based on broad diversification and risk management across global asset classes and alternative strategies. Perold is also the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School, where he had a distinguished career over more than three decades before assuming his current role at HighVista in mid-2011.

André received numerous awards for teaching excellence, including being voted the School’s most outstanding professor in a Business Week student survey.

While at Harvard, André authored and co-authored of 27 articles in financial journals, two books, and over 100 case studies, all relating to investment management, capital markets, and the financial system.

Recently he was interviewed at capitalallocatorspodcast.com. Click the link given below to listen to the interview :

Interview with André Perold

B. Entrepreneurial Diary

( “Business means solution of a particular problem and Creating value for customer as well as value  for company ” – Paramjeet Redu )

Brain Hacking ( CB )
Power of niche ( MW )
Final san diego venture group keynote 2016 ( SS )
Simplicity and the power of not doing stupid things ( IF )
Venture Capitalist: Strong Leadership Builds a Culture of Trust ( HP )

C. Other Stories

Are You Prepared? ( MC )
Cost of being in a Hurry! ( AA )
Keeping you out of trouble ( SB )
Mental Model: Journaling ( MI )
Ten Commandments booklet ( PP )
Interview with Anand Radhakrishnan ( OL )
Intellectual humility or honesty with self ( LG )
Howard Marks Memo : Lines in the sand ( OC )
Shankar Sharma: Perma Bear or a Rational Optimist ? ( SI )
How Union Bank was hacked and got its money back  ( LM )
Value Investing And The Virtue of Not Being That Stupid ( UV )
A dozen lessons about business valuation from the Iridium debacle ( IQ )
The Psychology Of Value Investing: Why Do We Hate Cheap Things? ( NC )
What Can Long Term Investors Learn from Private Equity/Venture Capitalist ( CA )
Why Charlie Munger and Buffett have changed their minds about tech and airlines ( YF )
Warren Buffett On Why He Doesn’t Invest in Gold “It Doesn’t Produce Anything” ( YT )
Investing lessons from Mahabharata: It’s okay to earn less, but not okay to lose it all ( ET )

“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