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.
People don’t think of survival as much as they should. This blog provides examples to prove that.
Slack is like margin of safety. Slack helps countries, companies, portfolios and individuals to survive.
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.
This is a blog about an NBFC that almost went bust because it got rich while doing stupid things. But it managed to survive and change course.
However the lesson is that arrange your affairs so that you can survive large events like say Covid and even thrive when other less prudent people struggle.
The Bed of Procrustes is a metaphor for fitting reality to meet the reality to our internal narratives rather than the other way around. When we confront our Bed, better to discard it than to behave like Procrustes.
To survive we need to avoid fragility and to thrive we need to embrace optionality.
This blog is about serendipity and why it is important to our endeavors.
In this blog, I talk about the non-linearity in some models and give some examples of non-linearity.
In this blog, I write on businesses/ professions that operate in Extremistan and Mediocristan. I also explain supply side constraints that exist in Mediocristan. And finally I write TCS operates in Mediocristan.
Interest upon Interest 