The first time I saw Mona Lisa, I wondered what was special about it. People from all over the world visit the Louvre in France to take a glimpse at Leonardo Da Vinci’s magnum opus. And I never understood the painting. But neither did I understand art at that point. The Man Leonardo Da Vinci…
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Snowball
‘Snowball: The business of life’ is mammoth of a book which even at being 700 pages long is both entertaining and enlightening. It offers a glimpse of a very diverse and eventful life of Warren Buffett and goes behind the making of the legend. I learned many things from this book which captures Warren in…
Regrets
Regret is a terrible emotion. Especially as an investor. Investors (more like speculators) in the Dot-com bubble lost money not because of greed. I believe they feared missing out on the next big thing. It is what is called FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). Every investor knows this feeling. That feeling of regret when a…
Bitcoin Vs Gold
I believe most of the people are aware of what money means philosophically. For me, money is a construct of our collective imagination. A way to store the value one has provided to the world or sometimes inherited. We value the printed notes it only because everyone else values it which includes the government that…
On Empathy and Scale
Humans always amaze me. There are so many inherent biases and paradoxes to human behavior that don’t make any sense or have any rational basis. But they exist and we have them. And they exist contrary to what people believe. Many years ago, I remember there was a young kid stuck in a well for…
Meaning of Life
This is perhaps the most important question in all of philosophy. Most modern philosophy is an attempt to answer this question in one way or another. I have pondered on this question for a long time. At one point, the obsession took a toll on me and led to an existential crisis. Intense curiosity sometimes…
Mistaking Luck with Skill
My writeup on the inconsistent and faulty feedback loops provided by the markets in addition to certain lessons learned over the last few years I recently bought a Casio. One of the reasons I bought it is so that I could play the old classical hits of Beethoven, Vivaldi, and Mozart by my hand. I…