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 for.
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.
Investment should be about making good long term returns. It’s not about winning a popularity contest.
This blog revisits some of Ben graham’s teachings related to markets and valuations.
This blog is about redistribution of assets, capacities and other resources across locations and time horizons. Redistribution allows you to have staying power during bad times and inability to redistribute causes fragility.
People don’t think of survival as much as they should. This blog provides examples to prove that.
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.
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.
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.
This is the 100th blog and has written by Ankit Kanodia. He has detailed his investing philosophy through 3 simple principles.
Interest upon Interest 