This is a question that is always difficult to answer. The best thing to do is to fully deflect the question! However with a low IQ it is possible to attempt an answer to this! Even though I do belong to the Peter Lynch gang of saying ‘If you have spent 10 minutes thinking or […]
This is not actually a list of books to read..but a sequel to a story I had done long back on books to read… If I remember right, my original list may not included Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan, or The Bed of Procruses – all are Taleb’s books. If you are not too keen […]
Well one swallow does not a summer make…nor am I sure about this being a trend…however here it is. Real estate prices in Mumbai have (had) grown far beyond the typical working class person. So much so that real estate replacement price and not the product determines the final selling prices. So if you have […]
Thanks to a book on retirement and many sundry articles on retirement planning….and people realizing (perhaps) my limited ability to talk on other topics….we do end up talking a lot about retirement. This is how they react…I have a little conveniently summarised them as follows: people in the 20s – ‘what are you talking about?’ […]
For many people life is very clear. Parents decide what a kid should study, what they should do in life, whom should they marry, even when to retire. For some kids service is not an option. For some kids business is not an option. For those who are caught in between the decision to be […]
I hate giving tips…and hate people asking for tips. When a person who does not know me from adam sends a mail saying “I have L&T bought at 1485…what should I do now?”. Sorry, I can only delete the mail. I need to know a person before I can recommend anything to him or her. […]
This is an old joke – and you will find it on the net… Albert Einstein went to heaven and God introduced him to 3 people. AE asked the first person ‘What is your IQ?’ he replied – 190 sir! AE said ‘we can discuss my physics theories’..he asked the second person the same question..the […]