Economics for the irrational man
Classical Economics assumes humans make decisions rationally. But in reality we are all messed up. Behavioral Economics explains our biases and why/how we make irrational decisions all the time.
Classical Economics assumes humans make decisions rationally. But in reality we are all messed up. Behavioral Economics explains our biases and why/how we make irrational decisions all the time.
This is blog # 125 and is a guest post by my friend Bharath Mahadevan. In this he talks about the philosophy of his life.
In investing as in life, occasionally things will not go as per our plan. What should we then do? Cut our losses and move on, no matter how hard it is. This is what lucky people do.
This is blog is about selling is much, much harder than buying. I have mentioned anecdotes of successful investors and their selling related mistakes.
Warren Buffett said: Predicting rains does not count, building ark does. This blog takes the idea of working on the “arks” of our life now so that we are much better off in the future.
Periodically we need to purge our minds of old cherished but outdated or incorrect ideas.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.
Scalar just has magnitude whereas Vector has magnitude and direction. This is a concept taught in Physics. But it can be applied to business as is shown through many case studies.
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.
In this blog I share my thoughts on investing in mediocre as well as high quality companies.
This is a simple blog on Simple Interest and Compound Interest. These concepts are everywhere in nature, life, business and investing. We just need to train our minds to see them.