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Gaurav Sharma
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I've been studying China 🇨🇳 for almost a decade now.
Fascinated by its ancient history, cultural transformation, hi-tech prowess, neo-capitalism, wealth creation, debt crisis, & global domination.

Here're some good documentaries👇🏼that explain China's past, present, and future
1) New Money: The Greatest Wealth Creation Event in History (2019)


2) The People's Republic of The Future


3) Too Big For China | Startups - Full Documentary 2018
4) China A Century of Revolution 1976 1994


5) History of Hong Kong - From British Colony to SAR of China


6) China Does Capitalism Better Than America
7) Social surveillance in China - Credit or control?


8) China's Forgotten War


9) The New Silk Road: Ambition and Opportunity
10) China's trillion-dollar plan to dominate global trade


11) China: A Century of Humiliation - documentary


12) How China Is Changing Your Internet
13) The cost of China’s millionaire migration


​14) ​China's Trillion-Dollar P2P Loan Industry Goes Bust


​15) ​The $70 Trillion Shadow Banking Industry
16) ​China's rise in artificial intelligence


​17) ​Trump's Trade War (full film)
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1/n: “Everything gains or loses from volatility. Fragility is what loses from volatility and uncertainty.”

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1) Re-read ‘the lessons of history’ by Will and Ariel Durant. Some insights/quotes/extracts below

Our knowledge of any past event is incomplete. Most history is guessing and the rest is prejudice. Other sciences tell us how we might behave. History tells us how we have behaved.
2) History is the map of human character. To know how the man will act you must know how man has acted. The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history. Human nature has largely been unchanged throughout history – the means change, but the motives remain the same.
3) The individual instincts were hardwired into us by evolution. They are millions of years old. The social instincts are much younger and were learned over the last 70,000 years. Inequality among humans is inherent in the unequal distribution of inborn ability.
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Re-read "Deep-Work" last nite. Some learnings/notes/extracts:

1) Ability to master hard things quickly and produce high quality work quickly are two vital characteristics in order to succeed. “If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are.”
2) Those who can work intelligently with machines, those with access to capital and those who are the best at what they do will vastly outperform others – world becoming more ‘winner take all’
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