Marcellus's #3Longs3Shorts this week: An interview with Ravi Ashwin, the age of 'techno-politics' and why Peter Thiel is such an influential thinker are amongst our 6 curated picks to read this week.

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LR1: R Ashwin: ‘I’ve always been good at assessing batsmen, but now I think I’ve taken it to another level | Sidharth Monga interviews R Ashvin | Cricinfo

This is Ashwin’s best interview, in our view.

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LR2: Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking | Farnam Street | Farnam Street blog

Second-order thinking is powerful and can get you extra-ordinary results. What is it and how can you cultivate it?

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LR3: Great Protocol Politics – Bitcoin, Ethereum & Web3 Are Already Reshaping the World | Parag Khanna, Balaji Srinivasan | Foreign Policy

There are 10 ways in which the world is transitioning from the age of geopolitics to one of techno-politics!
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SR1: Buggy, Messy & all that | Anand Sridharan | Buggy Humans in a Messy World

Humility is important in what is largely a probabilistic life. Anand brings out the nuances of the terms ‘Buggy’ and ‘Messy’, especially in the context of markets & investing
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SR2: Why Peter Thiel Searches for Reality-Bending ‘Secrets’ | David Perell | The Profile

The need to question consensus and look for undiscovered truths is what makes Thiel an inspirational thinker.

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SR3: Is a greener, faster and more decentralised alternative to Bitcoin possible? | No Byline | The Economist

Cryptocurrencies have flaws which threaten not only their own sustainability but also the larger extension to other spheres of life.
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5 Jan
India’s booming start-up ecosystem birthed over 40 unicorns in 2021! Its thus a good time to revisit Peter Thiel’s ‘Zero to One’, which is our Marcellus Book of the Month. We ourselves have sought inspiration from the book in starting and building Marcellus.
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The book gives a fresh perspective on building a successful business. For this, companies must invest in the difficult task of creating new things (0 to 1) rather than trying to achieve just incremental progress or improvement on things already being done (1 to n).

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Going from Zero to 1 allows you to monopolize your markets and that is the only wat to build lasting success in a business. Thiel’s mantras of ‘start small’, ‘do not disrupt’ and ‘be the last mover’ are super counter-intuitive insights on building and scaling a business.

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31 Dec 21
Here are the books we read, and in many cases reread in 2021. These were featured in Marcellus Book of the Month, a series we started in March this year.

Which ones did you read too and liked the most? Please let us know!

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March '21: ‘Capital Returns’, a collection of reports written by analysts at Marathon Asset Management

A must-read for all - the book explores the The Capital Cycle approach to investing and much more

April '21: ‘Investing for Growth’ by Terry Smith

Terry Smith is the CEO of the $46bn AUM firm, Fundsmith. The book is a compilation of newsletters, essays & articles written by Smith over a decade.

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26 Dec 20
How does a smart company achieve dominance in its business? A short thread 👇🏼
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Don’t address the challenge in a simple straightforward manner: The easy way is to build a push-based model through 3rd party wholesalers. Instead, build direct reach by removing intermediaries or create pull demand via influencers eg. Pidilite's initiatives with carpenters (3/7)
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