Anchor to the future
Making a case for why we need to anchor to the future and not to the past.
Category: Current Beliefs
We’ll see
Time is the ultimate stressor. Most of the current narratives, ideas, books, products or technologies are unlikely to stand the test of time. On the other hand, things, ideas and products that have survived for hundreds of years are likely to do so in future too.
How to remain unlucky
Charlie Munger’s favorite idea was inversion. In fact, he even gave a speech titled: Prescriptions for a miserable life. In the same vein of inversion, I have tried to prescribe how one can remain unlucky.
Importance of destroying ideas
Periodically we need to purge our minds of old cherished but outdated or incorrect ideas. That will make our minds fresh and nimble and we begin to take notions less seriously.
Banks and Bank robbers
A blog about how experts get their predictions wrong. Also discussed are a few thoughts on Royal Enfield.
The humble Index Fund
What is an Index? An Index is a collection of companies. The Sensex 30 is a weighted average of the 30 largest companies (by market capitalization) in the BSE . The Nifty 50 is a weighted average of the 50 largest companies in the NSE. Likewise there are other indices like Small Cap Index, Bank […]
Do you remember the Tata Nano hype?
In 2008, we were as excited as Tata Nano as we are about self driving cars in 2018. Unfortunately it didn’t live up to its hype. What lessons can we learn from it?
Interest upon Interest 