Reading Time: 17 minutes Take stocks. If you were born in 1970, the S&P 500 increased almost 10-fold, adjusted for inflation, during your teens and 20s. That’s an amazing return. If you were born in 1950, the market went literally nowhere in your teens and 20s adjusted for inflation. Two groups of people, separated by chance of their birth […]
Saurabh Mukherjee’s The Victory Project Book Review
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Victory Project Book Review: 6 steps to peak potential Let me ask you a question. Which is your favorite food? For me, it’s Pizza – a circle that comes in a rectangle box is the ultimate creation to satisfy hunger. I’m sure, you must be thinking about your favorite food and relishing it in […]
Book Summary of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Reading Time: 8 minutes In this book summary of Sapiens, we review Chapter 16: The Capitalist Creed- How credit was born and how we started trusting the future. Sapiens is like a marathon. The author starts from around 13.5 billion years before the present time and then tirelessly moves towards the present time and even beyond. While as a […]
Titan Book Summary – Vinay Kamath
Reading Time: 35 minutes Everyone, of course, knows Titan as a Tata company, but many will be surprised to know that Titan is actually a joint venture between the Tata Group and the Tamil Nadu government. During the pre-liberalization era, The Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation was one of the few organizations with a license to manufacture watches. At […]
Seeking Wisdom Book Summary – From Darwin to Munger
Reading Time: 38 minutes Seeking Wisdom Book Summary What do we want out of life? To be healthy, happy with our families, in our work, etc? What interferes with this? Isn’t it often emotions like fear, anger, worry, disappointment, stress, and sadness caused by problems, mistakes, losses, or unreal expectations? Maybe we misjudged people, situations, the time, or […]
Book Summary: Blitzscaling
Reading Time: 3 minutes Blitzscaling is a set of techniques that allows both start-ups and established companies to build dominant world-leading businesses in record time.
Book Summary: Good to Great
Reading Time: 5 minutes The vast majority of companies never become great. Why? Because the vast majority become quite good. Is this confusing? In this article, we will learn how companies move from good to becoming great.