Blog Posts

  • How foolish are you willing to look

    How foolish are you willing to look

    Warren Buffett said that he and Charlie are willing to look foolish provided they have not acted foolishly. In this blog, I am saying this is a superpower because it allows you to not fall for social proof and making independent decisions.

  • Falling for narratives

    Falling for narratives

    The mind likes to weave simple narratives around complex events. It makes it easier to store, understand and retell them. In investing it is better to have fewer narratives and be willing to go anywhere where there are opportunities.

  • Bias for now

    Bias for now

    Humans spent a majority of the time as hunter – gatherers. Therefore we have a bias for immediacy. This is both good news and bad news. Good news when we can use dashboards and other real time feedback for improvement. Bad news because Compound Interest is an invention of civilization which we are not programmed…

  • This too shall pass

    This too shall pass

    When there is so much noise and confusion around us, it is important to have a perspective that everything is impermanent. And no matter how dark the day is now, that too shall pass.

  • When Rory met Sanyal

    When Rory met Sanyal

    Once you understand why people do what they do, it is easier to sell ideas to them. This blog combines a real life problem with Rory Sutherland’s wisdom in a Dhurandhar like setting.