Weekend Musings

 

The last few days has been quite eventful. We had the first meeting of the ValuePickr Kolkata group last Sunday.

I had expected about 10 people when I first thought of this first. We ended up having over 40 participants sign up and 28 showing up on a rain-drenched Sunday morning and stayed on for over 3.5 hrs!! 


 


Some interesting stuff I read:

https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-useful-936f1cc405d#.vvs6mtaqa
Superb collection of mental models in one page

http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2016/08/01/989517/ 
7 mental models you should know for smarter decision making

http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2016/05/lessons-from-losing-big/
Notes from the book What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars.

https://hurricanecapital.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/peter-thiel-on-characteristics-of-monopoly/
Peter Thiel, the billionaire VC, who founded PayPal and now Palantir and also was an early investor in Facebook, has written a book Zero to One where he talks about the attributes of a monopoly. This article summarizes the book and throws in some interesting observations on monopolies.