A thread on the snippets (paragraphs & quotes) from the book ‘The Hidden Life Of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate’ by Peter Wolleben (A forester 🌳)
‘Trees in the forest are social beings.’
This thread will be updated as I read further & further.
1/ Trees are underrated.
2/ Wood Wide Web.
3/ This is how most people think about stocks, however, they are much more.
4/ “One of the oldest trees on earth, a spruce in Sweden, is more than 9500 years old. That’s 115 times longer than the average human life time. Creatures with such a luxury of time on their hands can afford to take things at a leisurely pace.”
5/ “Slow down, breath deep and look around. What can you hear? What can you see? How do you feel?”
6/ Why trees are social beings? Nature is more complicated than one thinks.
7/ How Trees communicate?
8/ Trees are slow but competent.
9/ Trees vs Insects 🐞
10/ The optic fibre cables of the forest.
11/ Agrochemicals.
12/ Socialism in nature.
13/ One child policy.
14/ Mom & Dad Trees are quite strict.
15/ why does soil moisture matters.
16/ Plants can learn & store information, however, don’t ask me how.
17/ “There is a honey fungus in Switzerland that covers almost 120acres and is about 1000 yrs old. Another in Oregon is estimated to be 2400 yrs old, extends for 2000acres and weighs 660 tons.
That makes fungi the largest known living organisms in the world.”
Not the whales 🐳
18/ The most beautiful lines.
19/ Care about ESG? Plant more 🌲 🌳 🌴🌳
20/ Older trees grow faster.
21/ Valid for friends who live in Europe.
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Why your nearby restaurant has a sweet-sour relationship with Zomato/Swiggy?
A mini Thread 🧵👇
1/ Aggregator Economics
Aggregators are cash-guzzling businesses
Although the restaurant volumes go up, increasingly these companies are getting stricter with respect to their cash flows leaving no cut for the restaurant owners
With the listing, this will continue to grow.
2/ Customer Data Masking
Aggregators don't share any user data with the owners leaving them clueless about their customer base, their demographics & trends.
Owners feel that they are losing their brand value & their food is getting commoditized.
With so much focus around the world wrt sustainability, one way to differentiate between speciality chemical companies is their focus on green chemistry.
The customers would soon demand this of everyone.
Source: Clean Science & Tech RHP.
Indian Speciality chemicals are expected to grow at over double digits till 2025.
Agrochemical & Fertilizer & Pharma API contribute 55%+ of the total speciality chemical space in India.