Weekly Reading: Nov 25, 2018

Sociology

How smartphone has changed photography & the concept of storing memory

A review of Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling

The Story of Drone 

The Law & Order Problem: Mexico's Mass Graves

Yemen: Spared from politics but fell to Nature

Economics

Rags to Riches or Passion, Luck and Being Smart has no substitutes?

Macro-Economy Gloom Report

Charles Munger on Economics & Economists

Investments

How to benchmark: Learning from Hedge Fund 

Understanding Risk: Simplified

Is it possible to Time the market?

Lifecycle of a company

Stock picking & Portfolio construction

Common Misconceptions of stock market

Understanding investments through 19th century art dealers

Others

It's not always that people could share about life lessons and also talk about it in an interesting way for the reader/listener. R Gopalakrishnan, Former director, Tata Son

Self improvement: How a Former Canadian Spy Helps Wall Street Mavens Think Smarter

Why multi-disciplinary knowledge is important -- Leonardo Da Vinci

Threat to UK from Organised Crime

Politics 

Gossip of a Payback?

Pages from History: Deng Xiaoping

Trump & The Prince

Point of View

Indian Stock Market: Market view: Be cautious

Personal Finance: When most money advice is bogus

US Stock Market & Alternative Investment: On Current Market 

Fixed Income: Value in credit market is yet to come

Definition of a company -- Steve Jobs

Weekly Readings - Nov 18, 2018

Reading During The Week --

Sociology

A column that discusses the misuse of social media

While broad principles are important. Being dogmatic about is a problem

Economics

Ritesh Jain points shares a summary of a speech given by Ray Dalio and highlights some of the interesting perspectives for Indians. (original speech published in Baron)

Indian consumers will never benefit from oil price moving down

Investing 

Berkshire Could Be A Rest Home For Activists

Investing Lessons from GE's 15 years of wealth destruction

The importance of doing one's homework instead of looking for a shortcut

History of Corporate "Misadventures" in India

Twelve Investment Contradictions

Things You See During Every Market Correction

Technology

Identifying Fake Videos

Phone privacy or the lack of it

US: The voting machine 

The New Strategy of Fighting the virus menace

Google Blog -- Combating the new format of Fraud

The "smart home" is the all-surveillance network.

Legislative research

Central Police Forces: Overview and Issues

Indian Railways: Freight System
(This holds an important aspect in order to value the commercial transport business)

Off-Beat

Former CIA Chief Explains How Spies Use Disguises