You have really admire how much money the self-help quacks and pop-psychologists make by peddling seemingly asinine bullshit that masquerades as profound insight.
"regular brainstorming sessions are not likely to lead to an increase in unique ideas. In fact, the average novelty of your output — that is, the degree to which your inspirations depart from convention — actually might decrease over time."
There must be atleast a few million books which peddle some nonsensical version of sitting down and taking notes.
Lot of startups who are yet to make profits are filing for IPOs globally. I'm reading the filings and the language is terrible. A few tips on how to do it right.
Here are the right terms to use instead of the current antiquated language.
We are making losses.
"We've been consistently making negative profits and growing year on year."
We don't yet have a business model.
"We're innovation leaders in several fast growing market segments"
Found out a surprising thing yesterday. My uncle had after working in a small company for about 35-40 years retired recently. He's from a typical middle-class Indian family and didn't have much in terms of property, money etc.
He's not well educated and had just passed his 10th and he's worked for most of his life doing odd things before settling at his last job.
So the question of retirement expenses came up and we were generally talking about it as we were cleaning up his old books and files. In the middle of this, I found a bunch of old paper certificates. He
Pretty much all personal finance books, blogs, podcasts I've come across can be summarized as:
1. Start saving early 2. Spend less, save more 3. Don't take debt 4. Avoid credit cards. Use them only if you can manage them 5. Avoid stock picking. Stick to low-cost index funds
6. Don't tinker with your portfolio frequently 7. Rebalance your portfolio -regularly/annually, etc 8. Avoid thematic funds, hot funds, fancy structured products, commodities, etc 9. Don't do market timing 10. Avoid bank RMs and insurance salesman
11. Have a funny money account. A small part of your portfolio where you do dumb and crazy shit. 12. Get health insurance and term insurance 13. Simple always beats complex 14. Have a will 15. Budget your expenses. Don't budget as long as you save enough 16. Asset allocation