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Palo Alto Networks CEO: "AI Found 5 Years of Bugs in 6 Weeks"
Nikesh Arora, who runs the biggest cybersecurity company in the world, ran an AI tool over his own software for six weeks. It found security holes that would have taken his human team five to seven years to find. The catch: the same AI that's brilliant at finding holes is unreliable at confirming whether a hole is…
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This book changed how I see productivity
A guy read an 800-page biography of John D. Rockefeller and pulled out the habits that made him the richest man alive. The surprise is that Rockefeller was not fast, not a genius, and not in a hurry. He was slow, dull-seeming, freakishly consistent, and obsessed with numbers. He picked a routine he could keep for…
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The Psychology of Compounding: How to Lose Less and Earn More | Ft. E.A. Sundaram
A fund manager with 30 years in Indian markets argues that the way to win at investing is not to be brilliant but to avoid four specific blunders, all of which are entirely within your control. His core obsession is temperament over intellect: most people lose money not because they failed to find the next great…
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The Curse of Optionality: Tim Ferriss on Experiments, Risk, and Freedom | The Founder Mindset
Tim Ferriss looks like a serial risk-taker but insists he's the opposite: someone obsessed with not losing, who only takes bets he can recover from. His pitch is that you can try an enormous number of things if each one has a clear deadline, a small downside, and teaches you something even when it fails. The…
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Is SpaceX About to Rule the World?
The useful space around Earth is smaller than it looks. There are a handful of good orbits, a fixed number of slots in each, and whoever gets there first keeps the spot for free just by sitting in it. SpaceX dominates because it figured out how to bring rockets back, which made launching cheap, which let it flood…
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Episode 102: AI Changed the Network: Inside the Ethernet Fabric Powering AI Infrastructure
When you train a giant AI model, you don't use one chip — you use thousands, and they have to talk to each other constantly, swapping numbers faster than they can do the actual math. The wires between the chips become the bottleneck. This is a conversation with a Broadcom networking executive about the cables, chips,…
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The AI Bandwidth Wall & Co-Packaged Optics
Modern AI chips can do math at a staggering pace, but they keep choking on a more boring problem: getting data in and out of the chip fast enough. The wires that carry data between chips are running out of headroom and burning a lot of electricity in the process. The fix the industry has landed on is to stop sending…
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HUF alone wasn't enough. We added a Private Family Trust.
A high-earning couple is taxed at 34.3% on every rupee of interest and gains. They use two legal structures to create extra "people" the tax department treats separately. An HUF (Hindu Undivided Family) holds their emergency fund so the FD interest sits inside a fresh basic-exemption slab and pays no tax. A private…
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Vinod Khosla's Warning for India's IT Industry | Can AI Save It?
Vinod Khosla, the 71-year-old venture capitalist who wrote a $50 million check to OpenAI in 2019 when it was a non-profit with no business plan, thinks AI is about to change almost everything. His blunt warning for India: the IT services and call-center business that earns the country a fortune in foreign income "will…
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How RBI Influences India's Economy, Inflation And Govt Debt | How India's Economy Works | The Core
The RBI is the government's banker, and its balance sheet quietly records a slow-motion problem. When the government borrows more than private investors want to lend at the price it offers, the shortfall keeps ending up on the RBI's books anyway, just through a side door instead of the front door. The government then…
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Correlation vs. Causation — The Difference Matters. A Lot. | In The Money by Zerodha
Two things can move up and down together perfectly without one having anything to do with the other. A man once built a model that "predicted" the US stock market with 99% accuracy using butter and sheep — pure coincidence dressed up in clean math. This episode walks through why moving-together (correlation) is not…
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Dave Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly: How a 150 Year Old Company Keeps Winning
Eli Lilly is 150 years old and is now the most valuable healthcare company on the planet, mostly because it bet early and broadly on the same family of hormones that power Ozempic, Mounjaro and Zepbound. CEO Dave Ricks thinks the obesity market is barely scratched — maybe 20-30 million people on these drugs today,…
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AI Billionaires Want to Control EVERY Aspect of Your Life | Aaron Bastani Meets Karen Hao
Karen Hao, who wrote a book on OpenAI called Empire of AI, returns a year later to argue that the AI boom is less a technology story than a power story: a handful of companies trying to make themselves the people who decide everyone's future. She walks through the physical underside of it all — the mines, the water,…
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What David Senra Learned Studying 400+ Founders
David Senra has read 400+ biographies of great founders for his podcast (Rockefeller, Jobs, Carnegie, Jensen Huang) and Brian Halligan of HubSpot and Sequoia interviews him about what they all share. The short answer: not much is a formula, but the patterns are obsession, focus (which means saying no to good ideas),…
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How SpaceX Humiliated Wall Street
For 20 years the US stock market quietly shrank — companies bought back their own shares, stayed private longer, and got taken private, so there was always less stock to go around and prices floated up. That just reversed. SpaceX went public at a $1.78 trillion valuation in the biggest IPO ever, and a wave of tech…
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WHY CO-PACKAGED OPTICS FAILED IN 2011 - AND WHY IT WON'T THIS TIME : IBM Europe | Jose Pozo CTO Optica
Computer chips talk to each other using electricity through copper wires, which is cheap and easy. But as AI gets hungrier, copper can't move data fast enough over distance, so the industry wants to switch to light (optics) — which is faster but far more fiddly to build. An IBM researcher in Zurich explains that IBM…
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I Compared All Indian REITs: Which Generated the Highest Cash Flow? Mindspace, Embassy, Brookfield
Put 10 lakhs into each of India's five listed REITs and you've spent 50 lakhs to own a slice of office parks and shopping malls across the country. The rent those buildings collect gets passed back to you as distributions. Total haul: about 24,000 a month, a 5.8% yield. That pays a few bills but won't replace a…
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Money Is a Measure of Nothing But Itself
Two economists, J.W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev, argue that we have money badly confused. We treat it as a yardstick that measures some real "stuff" hiding behind the numbers, like GDP measuring a pile of actual goods, or "capital" meaning machines and factories. They say no: money mostly measures other money, and the…
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Former MI6 Chief Richard Moore on the Changing World Order
Britain's recently retired spy chief sits on a stage at Davos and gives a calm, careful tour of a world he describes as more contested, with fewer guardrails, than at any point in his 38-year career. His one big argument: Ukraine is the test that matters most, because Russia would already have lost without China…
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Why Time, Space, and Matter Are an Illusion – Rupert Spira & Don Hoffman
Two men who arrived at the same idea by opposite roads compare notes. Don Hoffman is a cognitive scientist who argues, using evolution and physics, that the physical world we see is a kind of user interface — not reality itself, more like the icons on a computer desktop. Rupert Spira is a spiritual teacher who says,…
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Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history
A former OpenAI researcher argues that today's straight-line trends in computing power point to AI matching the smartest humans by around 2027, and that this will trigger a chain reaction: smart AIs that improve AI, leading to something far beyond human intelligence within a year or two of that. His main claim is that…
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I Was 100% in a Global Index Fund Until I Realised This
Ramin Nakisa from Pension Craft spent years preaching 100% global equities. Then he hit his "number" — the point where he has enough to live on for life — and quietly cut his equity exposure to 60%, putting the other 40% in a boring money market fund. The reason isn't a market call. It's that he no longer needs the…
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How The Dutch Lost Their Empire | And Why The US Is Next
In the 1600s a tiny waterlogged country of fewer than two million people ran more than a third of world trade. It invented the stock market, the corporation, the central bank, and the first global reserve currency. A century later it was finished — not from one disaster but from a slow pile-up of sensible-looking…
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Who is Building India's Energy Empire? The Inside Story! | Vartika Shukla | The Core Report
There is a quiet government-owned company called Engineers India Limited (EIL) that has spent 60 years designing and building the physical guts of India's energy system — refineries, gas pipelines, offshore oil platforms, ports. It does not own the plants; it figures out how to build them and manages the construction.…
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Process, Valuation & What Survives Every Market Cycle | Netra Anniversary Edition | DSP Mutual Fund
DSP's Sahil Kapoor walks through how to value five different asset classes, each with borrowed frameworks from twenty practitioners. The unifying idea: a valuation is not a forecast, it is a structured disagreement with the price the market is quoting. Every asset class needs its own tool — you cannot run a DCF on a…
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Why Does the Universe Only Have One Electron? Feynman's Craziest Theory || Learn With Feynman
This is a three-hour AI-generated voice impression of Richard Feynman walking through almost the entire field of physics, from atoms to black holes, in plain conversational English. It is genuinely good as a tour: it explains why matter holds together, why the sun shines, why time bends, and why most of the universe…
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India's rooftop solar problem | Recapping 2025 in the energy world | The Daily Brief #482
India doesn't have a "people don't want solar panels" problem anymore — most people know about rooftop solar and a lot want it. The real problems are on either side: most willing households never figure out how to start, and most installed panels quietly underperform because nobody cleans the dust off them.…
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Why Cheap Power Is Key To India's Manufacturing Future | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
India wants to become the world's factory, but a factory needs cheap power and many Indian manufacturers are paying two to three times what they should — 8 to 12 rupees a unit when it could be 3.5 to 4. The head of TKIL (the old thyssenkrupp Industries India, now Indian-owned again) argues that fixing the boring stuff…
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The Google Capital Company | Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Google's search-ads business is one of the best money machines ever built: the supply (web content) is free, advertisers bid each other up, and users decide who gets to pay. But that beautiful business can only get so big, because advertising is only a slice of the economy. So Google is doing what Buffett did with…
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Kaynes Technology — fat margins, thin returns, and a very expensive bet on becoming a chipmaker
Kaynes is the high-end cousin of India's contract-manufacturing boom — instead of assembling cheap phones, it builds complex, mission-critical electronics for defence, aerospace, space, railways, medical and industrial customers, which is why it earns a fat ~16% operating margin where commodity manufacturers earn 4%.…
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Waaree Renewable — a capital-light solar-EPC cash machine with a stalling order book
Waaree Renewable is the solar-EPC arm of the Waaree Group — the family that owns India's largest solar-module maker, Waaree Energies — and it builds solar plants for other developers without owning them. That asset-light design produces some of the most extraordinary returns on the market: an 84% return on capital,…
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India may be at the dawn of a social movement: Christophe Jaffrelot
A French scholar who has studied Indian politics since the 1980s sits down to explain why the BJP looks stronger than ever — and why that strength is also a sign of weakness. His argument: the ruling party can no longer win fair elections, so it has quietly changed the rules of the game (voter rolls, redrawn…
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Small Caps, Volatility & Wealth – Ramesh Mantri (WhiteOak Capital) Explains
Ramesh Mantri, a CIO who started in debt research and fell into investing via a Peter Lynch book bought on a Kolkata footpath, argues that investing is a behavioral game, not an intellectual one. His core claims: the world is unpredictable so stop forecasting macro; volatility is a feature, not a bug, and the only…
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JP Morgan's Michael Cembalest on the Impending Treasury Bust
JP Morgan's chief market strategist thinks the US bond market is heading for a real crisis in about three to four years, because around 2030-2031 every dollar of federal tax revenue will be eaten by interest payments plus entitlements, leaving nothing for anything else. He's not panicking yet, because that's outside…
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The 21st century brain
A Cambridge neuroscientist argues your brain is not a fixed machine you were handed at birth — it rewires itself constantly, and that means most of what makes you smart, kind, and clear-headed is trainable, not inherited. She walks through a handful of concrete habits (eat well, sleep, exercise, look people in the…
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Breaking down the Zepto IPO | AI's memory race | The Daily Brief #485
Zepto filed to go public, and its filing finally shows the math: it loses about 79 rupees on every order it delivers, and it's betting it can fix that by cramming more orders through each store rather than charging you more. The second story is about memory chips — the kind that go inside AI servers. A specialised,…
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Arvind Datar on Delimitation, Federalism & India's Constitutional Future
A Tamil Nadu-funded committee, headed by a retired Supreme Court judge, wrote a giant report suggesting big changes to how India runs itself. Constitutional lawyer Arvind Datar goes through it and mostly says: nice try, but the Constitution is fine, don't rewrite it. His sharpest points are about delimitation — the…
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Neil Turok's stunningly simple, testable new theory of the universe
For 50 years, physicists have tried to explain the universe by adding stuff: extra particles, extra forces, extra dimensions, parallel universes. None of it has predicted anything that turned out to be true. Neil Turok's pitch is the opposite. Look at what we actually measure, and the universe turns out to be…
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They're Buying Gold And Selling You AI
Two camps are fighting over the future of money. The US wants to keep the dollar dominant by turning every corporation into a tiny stablecoin issuer that has to park its reserves in US debt, so the whole planet ends up indirectly funding the American government every time it taps a phone. Meanwhile China, Russia and…
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Why 3 Phase AC instead of Single Phase???
The electricity in your wall is a wave that wobbles up and down. Three-phase power is just three of those waves running side by side, each one nudged a third of a cycle behind the last. The clever part: if you balance the three, their returning currents cancel each other out perfectly, so you can deliver three times…
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Dixon Technologies — India's contract-manufacturing juggernaut, racing to escape the 4% trap
Dixon is India's largest electronics contract manufacturer — the company that actually builds the smartphones, TVs, washing machines and telecom gear that other brands put their names on. It has been one of the great growth stories of the Indian market, compounding revenue more than 50% a year to ₹48,873 crore in…
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CMS Info Systems — the cash-logistics leader betting it can outlast the cash question
CMS Info Systems is the company that moves India's cash — the armoured vans that refill ATMs and collect the day's takings from shops, plus a growing arm that runs and automates ATMs and banking technology for banks. It is the clear market leader (around 42% of organised cash logistics, ~58% of ATM cash) and has no…
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CDSL — half of a regulated duopoly, riding (and waiting out) the market's mood
CDSL is one of only two companies licensed to hold Indians' shares in electronic form — a regulated duopoly with NSDL, and the one that dominates the retail end of the market with roughly 80% of the country's 22-plus-crore demat accounts. It is the plumbing of the stock market: when you buy a share, CDSL is where it…
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CIE Automotive India — a two-speed forger, sprinting in India, idling in Europe
CIE Automotive India makes the unglamorous metal guts of vehicles — forged and machined parts like crankshafts, gears and knuckles — and sells them to carmakers. It is really two businesses stapled together: a healthy, growing Indian operation (about 65% of sales, 17-18% margins) and a structurally stagnant European…
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Indus Towers — the landlord whose biggest tenant came back from the brink
Indus Towers is India's largest landlord of mobile-phone towers — it owns the steel-and-concrete passive infrastructure and rents space on it to the country's wireless operators under long-term contracts. For three years the story was a single overhang: its second-largest tenant, Vodafone Idea, was chronically behind…
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Indian Energy Exchange — a near-perfect monopoly with a regulator at the door
IEX is the toll booth of India's electricity market — the dominant exchange where power is bought and sold for next-day and same-day delivery, with about 84% of all exchange-traded electricity and effectively all of the spot market flowing across its platform. It is a beautiful business on paper: 84% operating…
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Oriana Power — a fast-growing solar EPC recycling capital, wrapped in big slogans
Oriana Power is a young, fast-growing solar company that listed on the NSE SME board and is now eligible to graduate to the main board. The growth is genuinely eye-catching — revenue went from ₹135 crore three years ago to ₹987 crore (FY25) to ₹1,814 crore (FY26), with profit compounding at over 200% a year and…
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Nuvama Wealth — a PAG-built wealth platform compounding through a flat patch
Nuvama is the former Edelweiss Securities, carved out and listed in 2023 under the control of the private-equity firm PAG, and it has become one of India's larger wealth-and-capital-markets platforms — roughly ₹4.5 lakh crore of client assets, ₹3,100 crore of revenue, and operating profit that crossed ₹1,000 crore for…
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HBL Engineering — a contrarian technologist's portfolio of moats too narrow to crowd
HBL Engineering — until recently HBL Power Systems — is a Hyderabad battery maker that has quietly turned itself into a defence-and-railway-electronics company, and the market has noticed: the stock trades at ~25x earnings and 9x book. The transformation is real. Three years ago this was a 10%-margin…
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BLS International — the world's other visa middleman, minting cash and quietly hunting deals
BLS International is one of only two companies of global scale — the other is VFS Global — that governments hire to run the unglamorous front office of issuing visas: taking your application, scanning your fingerprints, checking your documents, couriering your passport back. It does this across 80-plus countries for…
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K.P. Energy — a wind-EPC sprinter quietly turning into a power producer
K.P. Energy is a small Gujarat company that builds wind farms — finding the land, getting the permits, laying the infrastructure and erecting the turbines — and is now using the cash from that to slowly become a power producer in its own right. It has been growing at a sprint: revenue up roughly 57% to ₹1,497 crore in…
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Ceigall India — a fast road-builder learning to recycle its own capital
Ceigall is a Ludhiana-based road and structures builder that has grown revenue roughly 4.5x in five years — to ₹4,022 crore in FY26 — and now sits on an order book of ₹18,554 crore, nearly five years of work. The business has two halves: it builds roads as a contractor (EPC), and it builds-and-owns some of those roads…
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Can India's Grid Handle More ACs, Data Centres & EV Charging? | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
India's electricity problem used to be simple: not enough power. Now there's plenty of power on average — the trouble is having it at the right moment. The country built a mountain of solar, which only works in daylight, but everyone wants to crank their AC in the evening when the sun is gone. So the grid runs a daily…
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The Insane Complexity of the Semiconductor Global Supply Chain
Every advanced computer chip is the end of an absurdly long assembly line, and at almost every single step there's exactly one company on Earth that can do that step well. The toilet company makes the ceramic plate that holds the silicon. The MSG company makes the film the chip sits on. A Dutch company makes the only…
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The stories hidden in RBI's annual report | A tricky quarter for tyres | The Daily Brief #483
The RBI's 250-page annual report hides five quieter stories: small-business lending boomed but went to fewer, bigger borrowers; banks are scrambling for funding because they're lending faster than deposits are growing; last year's low inflation was mostly luck (cheap food, a gold rally) and tells you little about the…
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The Biggest Energy Shock Ever? Why Clean Energy Is India's Only Way Out
India imports most of its oil and gas, which drains a third of its import bill and wrecks the rupee every time prices spike. For the first time, there's an alternative: solar power is now the cheapest electricity humanity has ever built, cheaper even than coal. The guest — who built a clean-energy company from a…
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Understanding a REIT's results | Can the RBI control food prices? | The Daily Brief #484
Two stories. First: how to actually read a REIT's quarterly results. A REIT is a basket of rent-earning buildings listed like a stock, legally forced to pay out ~90% of its cash. The trick is that profit means almost nothing here — what matters is how much rent survives the long staircase of deductions (mostly…
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What's the Next Billion-Dollar Business Opportunity in India? | Ex-CEO, NITI Aayog | Masters' Union
Amitabh Kant — the bureaucrat behind Incredible India, Startup India, and the digital payments boom — sits with the founder of Masters' Union and answers one question: where should a 21-year-old go to build something big in India? His answer comes in two flavours. The cheap one is tourism, where you need almost no…
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The Art of Selling | Kuntal Shah | Oaklane Capital Management LLP | Co-founder - Needl.ai | CFA Society India
Everyone teaches you how to buy a stock. Almost nobody teaches you how to sell one, even though selling is where most of the pain and regret lives. Kuntal Shah, a three-decade Indian value investor, spends an hour confessing that his biggest, most expensive mistakes have all been the same one: selling good companies…
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Headroom: A Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications - Tejas Chopra, Netflix, Inc.
A Netflix engineer kept burning through his AI-coding budget and couldn't figure out where the money went. So he cracked open the pipe between his AI tool and the AI model, and found that most of what gets sent is garbage the model doesn't need. Headroom is a small program that sits in the middle and quietly trims the…
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Alkem Laboratories — India's anti-infectives king, paying up to become something more
Alkem is India's fifth-largest drugmaker and the undisputed number one in anti-infectives — the antibiotics and acute-illness medicines that make up a third of its revenue. FY26 was a landmark: it crossed ₹3,000 crore of EBITDA for the first time on revenue of ₹14,712 crore (up 13.5%), with returns on capital around…
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Lupin — from near-death to complex-generics machine, now guiding its own peak down
Four years ago Lupin was a wreck — a pharma company posting a ₹1,528 crore loss on 1% margins. FY26 tells the opposite story: revenue of ₹27,958 crore (up 23%), a 30% operating margin, profit of ₹5,355 crore, return on capital of 28%, and a balance sheet flipped from net debt to ₹4,636 crore of net cash. The…
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Jindal Stainless — India's stainless king, building the engine while riding the cycle
Jindal Stainless is the undisputed heavyweight of Indian stainless steel — the largest maker by a distance, and the one most deliberately turning a commodity business into something sturdier. FY26 was a record: 2.57 million tonnes shipped (up 8%), EBITDA of ₹5,560 crore (up 19%) and profit of ₹3,185 crore (up 27%),…
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Life Insurance Corporation — the sovereign whale that trades below its own embedded value
LIC is the elephant of Indian life insurance — a state-owned behemoth that still writes roughly six of every ten rupees of new individual business and manages ₹57 lakh crore of assets, a sovereign-scale pool larger than many countries' economies. The genuinely interesting development of the last two years is a quiet…
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Swaraj Engines — a near-perfect little machine bolted to one customer
Swaraj Engines makes diesel engines for exactly one thing — Mahindra's Swaraj-brand tractors — and it makes them beautifully. It is near-debt-free, throws off cash that matches its profits almost rupee for rupee, earns a return on capital most businesses can only dream of (ROCE 58.7%, ROE 43.8%), and pays roughly…
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Mahindra & Mahindra — the conglomerate that learned to say no
Mahindra is two genuinely excellent businesses — India's best-selling SUVs and its number-one tractors — wrapped in a sprawling conglomerate that, until about five years ago, had a habit of setting money on fire in overseas subsidiaries. The story of the last few years is the cleanup: a professional management team,…
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Emmvee Photovoltaic — an integration bet on the right side of India's solar wall
Emmvee makes solar cells and the panels they go into, and for most of its life it was an unremarkable business — a 9% margin, single-digit-crore-profit assembler. Then, in the space of two years, it became something that looks spectacular on paper: FY26 sales of ₹5,050 crore (2.2x the prior year), net profit of ₹1,082…
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360 ONE WAM — a toll booth on Indian wealth, with an NBFC bolted to its side
360 ONE WAM — until 2023 called IIFL Wealth, before it was spun out of the IIFL group and renamed — is India's largest dedicated private wealth manager for the very rich, looking after roughly ₹6.7 lakh crore of assets for about 4,500 families who each entrust it with more than ₹10 crore. The core engine is a…
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3M India — a cash machine that has stopped talking, and stopped growing
3M India is the listed Indian arm of the American conglomerate 3M — the company behind Scotch tape, Post-it notes, Scotch-Brite scrubbers, N95 respirators and a long tail of industrial adhesives, abrasives and films. The parent owns the regulatory maximum of 75%, and that ownership shapes everything: the company…
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Abbott India — a brand toll booth earning 45% on capital, slowly running out of road
Abbott India is the listed Indian arm of Abbott Laboratories — a branded-medicines business built on a handful of decades-old prescription staples like Thyronorm, Duphaston and Digene, sold through distributors across India. It just closed FY26 with ₹6,929 crores of sales (up 8.1%), ₹1,552 crores of profit, a record…
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AAVAS Financiers — a pristine loan book, a new owner, and a growth engine stuck in second gear
Aavas lends small home loans — average ticket ₹12.5 lakh — to self-employed people in small-town India whose income no bank statement can prove, and it does this with the cleanest book in the trade: gross NPA of 1.05%, credit cost of 13 basis points in the latest quarter, lifetime write-offs of 11 basis points. What…
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Aadhar Housing Finance — a metronome lending at the bottom of the pyramid
Aadhar Housing Finance is India's largest low-income housing lender — average loan about ₹11 lakh, to a customer banks mostly ignore — and it just finished FY26 exactly the way it said it would: AUM crossed the ₹30,000 crore milestone (up 20%), profit grew 20% to ₹1,096 crores, gross NPAs printed 1.08%, and every…
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Tata Elxsi — a premium design shop stuck in a growth air-pocket
Tata Elxsi is a design-led engineering shop — it helps carmakers, broadcasters and medical-device firms build the software and electronics inside their products — and for years it was the market darling of Indian engineering services, earning ~30% operating margins and growing at a brisk clip. The last two years have…
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Sai Life Sciences — an Indian CRDMO choosing market share over margin
Sai Life Sciences is a Hyderabad-based contract research, development and manufacturing organisation — a CRDMO, the pharma industry's outsourced lab-and-factory — that just delivered the year its long capacity build was supposed to pay for: FY26 revenue up 29% to ₹2,192 crores, EBITDA up 56%, profit more than doubled…
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Tata Technologies — betting its way out of a one-industry box
Tata Technologies is an engineering-services firm that helps companies design and build complex products — above all, cars. It is deeply tied to the Tata group: its anchor clients are Tata Motors and Jaguar Land Rover, and the Tata group owns ~55%. After a strong run into FY24, the business hit an air-pocket: revenue…
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Nippon Life India AMC — a toll booth on India's savings, with an ETF moat
Nippon Life India AMC is the manager behind Nippon India Mutual Fund — the old Reliance Mutual Fund, rebuilt after a reputational near-death experience into the fastest-growing of India's large fund houses. It runs about ₹8.2 lakh crore of total assets, its mutual-fund market share (8.65%) is the highest since 2019,…
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Motilal Oswal — a research house with two engines, one of which swings the headline
Motilal Oswal is a research-led financial-services group that has spent years deliberately converting cyclical broking income into stickier fee income — and bolted onto it a large proprietary equity book that the founders treat as a second compounding engine. The result is a business with two speeds. Underneath, an…
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JM Financial — a cheap, deleveraged conglomerate two years into a pivot it won't quite admit it had to make
JM Financial is a 54-year-old financial conglomerate — a top-tier investment bank bolted onto a lending book, a distressed-credit arm, and a wealth/asset-management business — trading near its 52-week low at roughly book value and a single-digit P/E. The defining event of recent years was a deliberate,…
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ICICI Prudential AMC — a defensive fee machine, freshly public and richly priced
ICICI Prudential AMC is one of the best businesses you can buy in India — and the market knows it. It is the country's second-largest mutual-fund manager and the clear number one in active, equity, and hybrid funds, running ₹11 lakh crore of assets at a ~75% operating margin and an ~86% return on equity, with almost…
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HDFC AMC — a serene cash machine compounding through a falling market
HDFC AMC is one of the finest businesses on the Indian market and the year just gone showed why. It is the asset-management arm of HDFC Bank, runs ₹9.3 lakh crore of mutual-fund assets at an 82% operating margin and a ~33% return on equity with zero debt, and pays out essentially all its profit as dividends. The…
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Garware Hi-Tech Films — a commodity film-maker that turned itself into a specialty brand, then ate a tariff war
Garware Hi-Tech Films spent a decade quietly transforming itself from a commodity polyester-film maker — the kind of business that earns thin, cyclical margins selling plastic by the tonne — into a specialty-products company whose operating margins have roughly tripled to ~20% as value-added films grew to ~87% of…
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BSE — a 150-year-old exchange reborn as a derivatives toll booth
BSE is Asia's oldest stock exchange, founded in 1875 — and for most of the last two decades a sleepy number two to the NSE. Then, in 2023, it relaunched its Sensex index-options franchise, and the result has been one of the cleanest earnings explosions on the Indian market: revenue up roughly five-fold and profit…
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China Rising, Middle East Burning: India's Strategic Moment | Upclose with Pankaj Saxena
A Hindu-nationalist writer named Pankaj Saxena sits down for a long, rambling conversation about how India should position itself in a burning world. His core lens: every major conflict is fundamentally a religious one — Christianity vs Islam vs "pagan" traditions like Hinduism — and India should play this board as a…
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Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain | Capital Allocators with Ted Seides
Rajiv Jain built GQG from scratch in 2016 and somehow grew it to $160 billion in a decade where almost every active manager bled assets. His one trick: own "quality" — but he defines quality as barriers to entry, not whatever Wall Street is currently in love with. Right now that means he owns almost no AI chips and no…
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Three Decades of Market Wisdom | Vetri Subramaniam, UTI Mutual Fund
A fund manager with 34 years in Indian markets sits down and says, more or less: markets have cycles, "this too shall pass" works in both directions, and most of what goes wrong for investors is psychology, not economics. His core advice is dull on purpose — own a simple diversified fund, judge a fund manager by how…
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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel
Dwarkesh Patel, a podcaster who interviews the people building AI, used to think the big leap was years away. Lately even he's been startled by how fast the models are improving — top engineers now describe what they want and the AI writes the software. The optimistic version of where this goes is staggering: a…
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We Asked Vanguard's Chief Economist Why AI Has Two Huge Tails — And Which One Wins
Vanguard's chief economist Joe Davis built a model that throws four century-old forces — technology, demographics, debt, and trade — into the same pot and lets them fight for control of growth. His conclusion: AI is the only force big enough to win that fight, but only if it does a specific thing. If AI just replaces…
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Thangamayil Jewellery — a Madurai gold house riding the bullion boom
Thangamayil is a Madurai-based jewellery retailer that does one thing with conviction: sell plain gold across Tamil Nadu, the state that accounts for roughly 40% of all the gold India buys. It doesn't host earnings calls, so there's no management chatter to parse — but the numbers tell a loud story. FY26 (year to…
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Tech Mahindra — the margins came back; now for the harder half
Tech Mahindra is two years into a turnaround that has, so far, delivered exactly half of what it promised — the better-looking half. When Mohit Joshi arrived from Infosys as CEO in December 2023, he inherited a company whose profitability had quietly collapsed: operating margins had fallen to around 6–9%, profit had…
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Waaree Energies — a commodity earning branded margins, on a policy lease
Waaree Energies makes solar panels, and for the last two years it has been one of the most spectacular profit stories in Indian manufacturing — a maker of what is fundamentally a commodity, earning the margins of a branded business. Revenue in FY26 grew 84% to ₹26,537 crore and net profit doubled to ₹3,884 crore, on…
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Shriram Finance — the truck financier the world's banks now want a piece of
Shriram Finance is India's largest retail NBFC by some measures — a ₹2.8-lakh-crore lender built over four decades around financing used trucks for small operators banks won't touch. FY26 has been a year of quiet strength and one enormous validation: assets growing ~16%, profit compounding past ₹10,000 crore, bad…
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State Bank of India — the sovereign's bank, finally earning its keep
State Bank of India is the country's bank — largest, oldest, government-controlled, holding roughly a fifth of all deposits and advances in the system — and after a decade that included real distress, it just printed its best year ever: FY26 net profit of about ₹80,000 crore, return on equity of 18.5%, and bad loans…
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Tata Capital — a freshly-listed giant still earning its valuation
Tata Capital is the Tata group's lending arm — India's third-largest diversified NBFC — and it has only been a public company since late 2025, so there are exactly two earnings calls to read. They tell a clean story: a big, fast-growing, deliberately boring lender. AUM is compounding in the mid-20s percent, asset…
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Rubicon Research — a US formulations house that refuses to play the generics price war
Rubicon Research is an Indian pharma company that sells almost entirely into the United States — and does it without fighting the price war that grinds down most Indian generics makers. Instead of churning out commodity pills, it builds differentiated formulations: complex generics, branded prescription drugs, and…
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Sterlite Technologies — a fibre turnaround betting the re-rating on AI
Sterlite Technologies (STL) is the Vedanta group's optical-fibre maker — one of the few companies in the world that runs the full chain from raw glass to finished cable. For five painful years it was stuck in a global fibre downcycle: oversupply, Chinese price deflation and a telco-capex pause dragged a…
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Swan Defence — a resurrected shipyard, priced on the promise
Swan Defence is what's left of one of India's most snake-bitten industrial assets — the giant Pipavav shipyard, once Reliance Naval, before that ABG/Pipavav — reborn for the third time. Its prize possession is genuinely world-class: one of the largest dry docks on the planet (662 metres long, 4 lakh DWT) plus 144,000…
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Sundaram Finance — the quiet compounder that earns 19% and tells you 16%
Sundaram Finance is the most conservative — and arguably the highest-quality — lender in this peer set, and it goes out of its way not to brag about it. Founded in 1954 and run by the Chennai TVS/Sundaram lineage, it finances commercial vehicles, cars and equipment, and sits atop a cluster of fast-growing subsidiaries…
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Sansera Engineering — a connecting-rod maker quietly rebuilding itself around aerospace and chips
Sansera makes the small, critical, forged-and-machined metal parts that sit deep inside engines and machines — connecting rods, crankshafts, rocker arms — and it is one of the world's top handful of suppliers of connecting rods outside the carmakers themselves. That is the boring, cash-generating base. The story…
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Shilpa Medicare — the complex-pharma platform finally turning science into margin
Shilpa Medicare spent a decade and a great deal of borrowed money building an unusually broad pharmaceutical workshop — complex oncology APIs, specialty formulations, and a full biologics platform under one roof — and FY26 was the year it began to pay. Revenue grew ~18% to ₹1,549 crore, operating margins hit a record…
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Reliance Industries — the oil giant that became a consumer empire
Reliance is India's largest company — a ₹17.2 lakh crore conglomerate that started as a textiles-and-refining business and has, over the last decade, rebuilt itself into something closer to a consumer-tech empire. The single most important fact about it today: consumer businesses (Jio telecom and Reliance Retail) now…
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RateGain — a cash-rich travel-SaaS that just bet the balance sheet on scale
RateGain sells the software that hotels, airlines and online travel agents use to price, distribute and market their inventory — a genuinely asset-light, cash-generative SaaS business that, until last year, ran with almost no debt and converted ~85% of its profit into cash. FY26 changed its shape. It borrowed ~$125…
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Poonawalla Fincorp — a deep-pocketed rebuild, priced for the finish line
Poonawalla Fincorp is the old Magma Fincorp reborn — bought and recapitalised in 2021 by the Cyrus Poonawalla group (the family behind Serum Institute), and now in year two of an aggressive rebuild under a HDFC Bank veteran. FY26 was a genuine turnaround year: the loan book nearly doubled to ₹60,000 crore, six new…
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Nexus Select Trust — India's only mall REIT, riding a consumption inflection
Nexus is the odd one out — India's first and only listed retail REIT, a portfolio of 17-odd Grade-A shopping malls across 14 cities, sponsored by Blackstone and listed in May 2023. Where the office REITs collect fixed rent from long corporate leases, Nexus is a geared play on Indian consumption: about 90% of its…
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Muthoot Finance — the gold-price tailwind, and a lender that doesn't blink
Muthoot Finance just had the best year in its history, and it barely had to try. As gold prices roared and unsecured lending across India dried up, its gold-loan book grew ~54% to ₹1.65 lakh crore and consolidated profit nearly doubled to ₹10,607 crore — a 30.9% return on equity. The mechanism is almost mechanical:…
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Radico Khaitan — the distiller that turned premiumisation into cash
Radico Khaitan spent the last few years doing something hard in the liquor business: getting people to trade up, and keeping the extra money instead of bleeding it back into working capital. FY26 was the year it all showed up at once. Revenue crossed ₹6,000 crore (+25%), operating profit nearly tripled over three…
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Park Medi World — the hospital chain that grows on other people's distress
Park Medi World is a North-Indian hospital chain that has figured out how to build beds cheaper than almost anyone else and fill them with patients whose bills are paid by the government. It listed in December 2025, used the cash to clear nearly all its debt, and posted a record year — ₹1,679 crore of revenue (up…
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Piramal Enterprises — the legacy bonfire is nearly out, now prove the engine
Piramal Enterprises is the Ajay Piramal group's lending arm, and for the past three years it has been one long act of surgery: amputating a toxic legacy real-estate loan book while growing a clean retail franchise underneath it. That surgery is nearly complete. The legacy book has shrunk from ₹43,000 crore to under…
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Mahindra Finance — rural India's lender, still chasing the return it deserves
Mahindra Finance is the Mahindra group's rural lending arm — it puts tractors, utility vehicles, cars and small commercial vehicles into the hands of semi-urban and rural buyers the banks find too costly to reach. It's a big, well-run, asset-quality-disciplined lender with one chronic frustration: it can't seem to…
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Manappuram — a healthy gold core, a microfinance wound, and Bain at the door
Manappuram is India's second-largest gold-loan NBFC, and the story of the past year is a tale of two companies under one roof. The gold core is thriving — assets nearly doubled to ₹49,000 crore as gold prices soared, and management deliberately cut lending yields (from 22% toward 18%) to match the market leader…
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Mindspace Business Parks REIT — the disciplined one, turning into an acquirer
Mindspace has long been the conservative one in a sector that loves leverage — a K Raheja Corp-sponsored office REIT, anchored in Hyderabad, that historically ran its balance sheet well below what regulators allow and let its assets do the talking. The story of the last year is that it has started, carefully, to…
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Inox Wind — a real turnaround that the cash hasn't caught up to
Inox Wind is India's last surviving home-grown wind-turbine maker, and it has clawed its way back from the dead. After a brutal five-year collapse — sales fell from ₹4,445 crore (FY16) to ₹465 crore (FY18), then years of losses that ran past ₹2,000 crore cumulatively — the business has roared back: revenue tripled to…
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L&T Finance — a retail NBFC betting its future on an AI underwriting engine
L&T Finance is the Larsen & Toubro group's retail NBFC, and it has just completed a remarkable makeover: from a lumpy, loss-prone wholesale/infrastructure lender into a 98%-retail franchise (rural microfinance, two-wheelers, tractors, personal loans, home loans, and now gold) with 2.8 crore customers. FY26 was a…
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ICICI Bank — the bank that stopped chasing the loan book
ICICI Bank is India's second-largest private bank, and over the last seven years it has done something quietly remarkable: taken its return on equity from a 4% wreck in FY19 to a steady 16% today, and grown net profit roughly tenfold to ₹57,936 crore in FY26. Asset quality is pristine (net NPA 0.37%), the funding base…
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IIFL Finance — out of the penalty box, rebuilt around gold and co-lending
IIFL Finance spent the past two years in and out of a penalty box, and FY26 is the year it walked free. A March-2024 RBI ban on its gold-loan business — its single biggest segment — cratered profit by ~70% in FY25 to ₹578 crore. The ban was lifted, and FY26 is a clean V-shaped recovery: profit rebounded to ₹1,817…
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Inox India — the picks-and-shovels of cold, priced for perfection
Inox India makes the steel vessels that hold things colder than minus 150°C — LNG, liquid oxygen, helium, hydrogen, the gases that the energy transition and half of frontier industry run on. It is a quietly excellent business: debt-free, 33% return on capital, margins that haven't moved off ~22% in seven years through…
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Inox Green — an annuity story the income statement doesn't yet tell
Inox Green is the company that keeps wind turbines running after Inox Wind sells them — India's only listed pure-play renewable operations-and-maintenance (O&M) business, and the recurring-revenue arm of the Inox group. On paper it's a lovely model: 5-to-20-year service contracts on a growing fleet, ~50% margins, an…
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Himadri Speciality Chemical — a cash-rich carbon house betting on batteries
Himadri is India's dominant maker of coal-tar pitch and carbon materials — an unglamorous, deeply integrated chemicals business that quietly compounds. Its recent record is striking precisely because of how it grew: revenue has been roughly flat for three years (~₹4,200 to ₹4,660 crore), yet profit nearly doubled, to…
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HDFC Bank — through the merger's belly, into a boardroom shock
HDFC Bank is India's largest private bank, and for the last three years it has been digesting the elephant it swallowed in July 2023 — the reverse-merger with its parent, mortgage giant HDFC Ltd. By FY26 the worst of that indigestion is behind it: loan growth re-accelerated to 12% (from a deliberately slow 5% in…
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Cupid — a sleepy condom exporter rebuilt by a financier-promoter
Cupid is one of the world's few makers of WHO-prequalified male and female condoms — and for thirty years it was a quiet, cash-rich exporter selling into government tenders, run by a founder who openly admitted he was no capital allocator and wanted to sell. In FY24 he did: a financier-led family, the Halwasiyas, took…
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Granules India — the integrated generic maker climbing out of commodity
Granules makes some of the most commoditised molecules on earth — paracetamol and metformin, the world's most ordinary pills — and earns ~22% operating margins doing it, because it owns every step from raw chemical to finished tablet. FY26 was the year it broke out of a two-year plateau: revenue crossed ₹5,000 crore…
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Fujiyama Power Systems (UTL Solar) — rooftop solar's distribution-and-integration bet
Fujiyama Power Systems sells rooftop solar under the UTL Solar brand — not as a project contractor, but as a products company that makes the panel, the inverter and the battery, and pushes them through a deep network of roughly 8,900 dealers and distributors. It's growing fast: nine-month FY26 revenue was up ~65% to…
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Federal Bank — a clean old bank trying to learn new returns
Federal Bank is a 95-year-old Kerala-rooted private bank — the country's sixth-largest by total business, with an unusually clean loan book and an unusually low return to show for it. That tension is the entire story right now. For years Federal was admired for pristine asset quality (net NPAs at an all-time-low…
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Five-Star Business Finance — a fortress balance sheet weathering a lender-made storm
Five-Star does one thing, and does it with unusual discipline: it lends small sums (₹3-10 lakh) to South Indian shopkeepers and self-employed people who sit outside the formal credit system, every loan secured against the borrower's own home, at fat yields (~23%). The result is a remarkable financial profile — ~16%…
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Balaji Amines — a fortress balance sheet waiting on a cycle and its own delayed plants
Balaji Amines is India's largest maker of aliphatic amines — a quietly dominant, founder-run chemical producer with a near-debt-free balance sheet that has spent the last three years inside a textbook down-cycle. Revenue fell ~41% from its FY23 peak, operating margins compressed from 26% to a 17% trough, and return on…
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Craftsman Automation — betting the balance sheet on becoming an aluminium giant
Craftsman Automation is a Coimbatore precision-engineering house that has, in five years, deliberately turned itself into something five times bigger and quite different — buying its way (DR Axion, Sunbeam, a German foundry) and building its way into aluminium die-casting, which has now overtaken its original…
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Coromandel International — a quietly excellent fertilizer business digging itself a wider moat
Coromandel is India's largest phosphatic-fertilizer marketer and a Murugappa Group company that has spent the last three years quietly turning itself from a fertilizer bagger into something more integrated and harder to dislodge — building a captive rock mine in Senegal, captive acid-and-power plants at Kakinada, and…
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BHEL — a thermal-cycle recovery priced like a structural compounder
BHEL is India's state-owned maker of the big iron inside power stations — boilers, turbines, generators — and it is unmistakably mid-recovery after a brutal decade. A thermal-power ordering super-cycle has filled its order book past ₹1.3 lakh crore, FY26 delivered record-since-2015 revenue of ₹33,782 crore and ₹1,600…
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Bharat Electronics — the PSU that earns like a private champion, waiting on one big order
Bharat Electronics is the rarest of things: a government-owned company that earns like a private-sector champion. The defence-electronics PSU posted record FY26 numbers — revenue up 16% to ₹27,480 crore, profit ₹6,048 crore, operating margins around 30%, and a 37% return on capital with effectively zero debt. Those…
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Bajaj Holdings — owning the crown jewels at half price
Bajaj Holdings is not an operating business — it is a vault. Created in the 2008 demerger of the old Bajaj Auto, it exists to hold the Bajaj family's controlling stakes in the group's two crown jewels: roughly a third of Bajaj Auto and a comparable-to-larger slice of Bajaj Finserv (which in turn controls Bajaj…
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Bajaj Finserv — three engines, finally all its own
Bajaj Finserv is the Bajaj group's financial-services holding company — a vehicle that owns three high-quality engines and a clutch of young, deliberately loss-making bets. The engines are Bajaj Finance (the lending machine it controls ~52% of, which throws off the overwhelming majority of the group's profit), Bajaj…
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Bajaj Finance — the compounding machine recalibrates
Bajaj Finance is the closest thing Indian lending has to a compounding machine: assets just crossed ₹5 lakh crore, profit grew ~24% to ₹19,332 crore in FY26, return on equity sits near 20%, and bad loans stayed under 1.1% gross — a combination almost no lender sustains for a decade. FY26 was the year the machine…
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Axis Bank — the perpetual third, still scrubbing the slate clean
Axis Bank is India's third-largest private bank, and that ordinal — third, behind HDFC and ICICI — is the whole story. It is a genuinely large, capable franchise that has spent the better part of a decade climbing out of an asset-quality hole (return on equity cratered to ~1% in FY18), rebuilt itself to an 18% ROE by…
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Bajaj Auto — a margin machine that just bought a troubled legend
Bajaj Auto is India's most profitable two-wheeler maker and the world's largest three-wheeler maker — a margin-and-export machine that runs ~20% operating margins (rare air for an auto company) and ~28% returns on capital, and that just closed a record year with revenue near ₹59,000 crore and standalone profit of…
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Apollo Micro Systems — a missile-electronics insider racing the cash it ties up
Apollo Micro Systems builds the electronics that sit inside India's missiles, torpedoes and naval mines — and it claims to be inside almost all of them. FY26 was a genuine breakout: revenue up 61% to ₹904 crore, profit nearly doubled to ₹107 crore, and a five-year record that has compounded earnings at 64% a year…
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Aditya Infotech (CP Plus) — the camera brand that got handed a market
Aditya Infotech sells CCTV cameras under the CP Plus brand, and for fifteen years that was a thin-margin grind — assembling commodity hardware in a price war against cheap Chinese giants like Hikvision and Dahua. Then, in April 2025, the Indian government effectively regulated those rivals out: every network camera…
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Aditya Birla Capital — a financial supermarket finally finding its margins
Aditya Birla Capital is the Aditya Birla group's "financial supermarket" — a holding company stacking an NBFC, a housing-finance arm, a mutual-fund house, and life- and health-insurance businesses under one roof. For years the story was growth without much profit: the loan book roughly tripled in four years while…
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Cholamandalam — eight engines, one elevated cylinder, and a smear to swat away
Cholamandalam is one of India's best-run secured lenders having a slightly awkward couple of years and growing straight through them anyway. It is a Murugappa-group NBFC that has compounded its loan book roughly tenfold in a decade to ₹2.43 lakh crore, while keeping return on equity pinned in an 18–21% band for eleven…
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Embassy Office Parks REIT — the bellwether riding Bengaluru's GCC super-cycle
Embassy is the bellwether — India's first listed REIT and, by area, Asia's largest office REIT at 51 million square feet. It is, in plain terms, a giant Bengaluru landlord: three-quarters of its value sits in one city, and 65% of its rent comes from the in-house tech-and-back-office arms of multinationals (Global…
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Brookfield India REIT — the high-yield, high-octane office landlord
Brookfield India REIT is the smallest of the three listed office REITs and, not coincidentally, the one running hardest. It collects rent from campus-format office parks — historically Mumbai, Gurgaon, Noida and Kolkata, and now Bengaluru after a transformational FY26 acquisition — and pays a distribution yield around…
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Why Building AI Data Centres Isn't Working Anymore | ColdFusion
Tech companies promised to build a staggering number of AI data centres — buildings full of computers that make AI work. The problem is that most of them aren't actually getting built. Around half the projects planned for the US this year have been delayed or cancelled, blocked by a shortage of electricity, scarce…
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Murali Srinivasa on how PCBs are made and why India lags | Markets by Zerodha
A printed circuit board is the green slab inside every electronic device — the thing the chips sit on, threaded with copper wires that connect everything. Cheap ones (a TV remote) are a single sheet of copper. Hard ones (a phone) are up to 60 wafer-thin copper sheets stacked and glued into something the thickness of a…
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Kushal Desai, CMD, Apar Industries | The Spotlight | Krish Kothari
Apar Industries makes three boring-sounding things that the modern world cannot run without: the overhead wires that carry electricity across the country, the oil that keeps transformers from cooking themselves, and the cables that wire up everything from your house to nuclear submarines. Kushal Desai, the…
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Helios Flexi Cap Fund: Category-Leading Performance | The Spotlight x Dinshaw Irani | Krish Kothari
Dinshaw Irani runs the Helios Flexi Cap Fund and comes on a friendly interviewer's channel to walk through what's inside it. The pitch: most "flexi cap" funds are flexi in name only — they sit at 70% large caps and quietly buy the same seven stocks as everyone else. Helios swings its large-cap weight from 47% to 70%…
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AI: The Biggest Capital Misallocation in History | Market Talk with George Noble
Three sceptics — an AI researcher, a macro economist, and a markets guy — argue that the AI boom is a giant money bonfire dressed up as progress. Their core claim: large language models are unreliable, every company builds the same one (so nobody has a moat), and the whole industry loses roughly two dollars for every…
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Is Copper in a Supercycle? | Subtext by Zerodha | Markets by Zerodha
Copper prices roughly doubled — from around $6,000 a tonne to a peak near $13,000–14,000 — and the question is whether this is a genuine long-running boom (a "supercycle") or just another spike that crashes 50% like the last four did. The guest, Amit Jeswani of Fintech Capital, argues this cycle is real and probably…
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Building a Global Company in India | Dr Jairam Varadaraj, MD, Elgi Equipments | Krish Kothari
Elgi makes air compressors — machines that produce compressed air, an industrial utility that does jobs electricity can't. The company is one of the world's largest, run from Coimbatore by Dr Jairam Varadaraj, who came home from a US PhD in 1987 having written a thesis on why Indian companies never become globally…
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Reliance Industries: The Energy Elephant That Danced | The Spotlight ft. Probal Sen | Krish Kothari
Reliance is so large it pays roughly 3.5% of India's corporate tax and supplies a chunk of the country's gas, fuel, plastic, telecom, and groceries. The engine underneath all of it is a deeply unglamorous business: turning crude oil into chemicals at a single colossal site in Jamnagar. The trick was never one clever…
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Road Ahead: Markets, Risks & Opportunities | Mirae Asset Mutual Fund
A Mirae Asset monthly webinar where three fund managers — equity, fixed income, commodities — take stock of a rough patch for India. The economy has slipped from the world's fourth-largest back to sixth, foreigners have pulled $40bn+ out of Indian stocks in 18 months, the rupee keeps weakening, and a fresh Middle East…
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The One World Government Is Already Here | Simon Dixon
Two Bitcoin guys talk for nearly two hours about how they think the world really works behind the curtain. The grounded half is solid: how social media algorithms farm your attention and shape what you see, how debt makes you somebody else's asset, how AI is quietly gutting white-collar jobs, and how the financial…
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Winning Investment Habits | 5th Masters At Work | Sanjoy Bhattacharyya | Manish Bhandari | Kolkata
Sanjoy Bhattacharyya — a 42-year veteran Indian value investor, ex-CIO of HDFC Mutual — sits down with Manish Bhandari of Vallum Capital and dispenses a fireside of contrarian wisdom. The through-line: risk is not knowing what you own, almost nobody in India thinks about when to sell before they buy, and the joy of…
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Thinking Machines' Murati on AI's Next Chapter
Mira Murati ran the engineering side of OpenAI, then left to start her own AI company, Thinking Machines Lab. Her bet is that everyone else is building AI to work autonomously — go off, think alone, hand you an answer — while she wants AI that works with you in real time, like a conversation where both people can…
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JUST RECORDED: Elon Musk Interviewed by JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon
Jamie Dimon interviews Elon Musk in front of 3,500 JP Morgan retail investors, ostensibly because SpaceX is heading toward going public. Musk's actual pitch: SpaceX isn't a rocket company anymore, it's an infrastructure bet on AI. The plan is to put 100,000+ next-gen Starlink satellites in orbit, build AI data centers…
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Suzlon's Wind Solar Storage Plan for India's Energy Future | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
Suzlon used to sell windmills. Now it wants to sell whole power plants that combine wind, solar, and batteries on one site, so a factory or data center can get clean electricity around the clock instead of only when the wind blows or the sun shines. The pitch: wind alone covers about 45% of the hours in a year, solar…
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The foreign policy of Donald Trump in historical perspective | LSE Event
Historian Niall Ferguson argues the popular comparisons for Trump — Hitler, Caesar, the would-be emperor — are lazy and useless. The figure who actually explains Trump, he says, is Richard Nixon: same enemies (Harvard, the press, the bureaucracy), same playbook of tariffs, a weaker dollar, a surprise opening to China,…
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This Executive Coach Works With The Top 0.01% & is Sharing Her Secrets | Dr. Julie Gurner
Dr. Julie Gurner coaches CEOs and billionaires — the Wall Street Journal calls her the real-life version of the therapist character in the show Billions. She started her career as a psychologist in a maximum-security prison, which, oddly, turned out to be excellent training for sitting calmly across from intimidating…
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AI, Nvidia Chips, Infra, China & Railways: 12 Years of Modi Govt's Hits & Misses | Ashwini Vaishnaw
A sitting Indian cabinet minister, in charge of IT, Telecom and Railways, sits down with a friendly news agency to mark 12 years of the Modi government. He runs through the wins he's proudest of: India now makes mobile phones and exports them, the first locally-made semiconductor chips just rolled off two factory…
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Lecture 1: Introduction to Individual Decision-Making
This is the opening lecture of an MIT game theory course, and it spends its whole hour on a deliberately small question: how does a single person make a sensible choice? Before you can study how people scheme against each other, you have to nail down what it means for one person to "prefer" one thing to another. The…
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Inside India's 16,400 km Gas Pipeline Network – What's Next? | Sandeep Kumar Gupta | The Core Report
GAIL is the company that owns most of the pipes carrying natural gas around India — roughly 16,400 km of them, about 70% of the national network. Its boss explains why India keeps wanting gas to be a bigger slice of its energy diet (cleaner than coal) but keeps failing to grow that slice past 6%: gas got expensive…
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"A.I. and Our Economic Future," Professor Chad Jones
A Stanford growth economist asks the big question: if AI can eventually do every job a human can, what happens to the economy? He sketches two extremes — AI makes growth explode, or AI is just another normal technology like electricity that keeps growth steady at 2% a year. Then he builds a model and finds the answer…
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A Conversation with Demis Hassabis, Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind
Demis Hassabis runs Google DeepMind, the lab that built the AI which beat the world champion at Go and then solved a 50-year biology puzzle about how proteins fold (work that won him a Nobel Prize). In this Stanford talk he says we're in the "foothills" of a massive shift — he thinks human-level general AI arrives…
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Molecular Physicist Visualised The Process of Dying | David Glowacki
A physicist fell off a mountain in 2006, lay there slowly suffocating for three hours, and had a near-death experience where he watched his own body turn into a fading light. He survived, and he has spent the years since turning that experience into a VR artwork that lets other people feel what he felt. The strange…
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Page Industries — the Jockey machine grinds through a two-year demand slump
Page Industries makes and sells Jockey innerwear (and Speedo swimwear) in India under an exclusive licence, and for a decade it was one of the most reliable compounding machines in Indian consumer — premium underwear sold through 116,000 shops at FMCG-like margins. The last two years have been its hardest stretch: a…
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Vedant Fashions — a near-monopoly on the Indian wedding, waiting out a slow patch
Vedant Fashions owns Manyavar, the brand that effectively organised the chaotic, unbranded business of Indian men's wedding clothes — and built one of the most profitable retail models in the country doing it. Its margins are almost surreal for an apparel company: roughly 45–48% at the EBITDA line, 66% gross, with…
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Trent — a Tata retailer compounding like a tech rollout, priced like one too
Trent is the rare Tata company that behaves like a startup that already won. In five years it went from a sleepy sub-₹3,000 crore retailer that lost money in COVID to a ₹20,074 crore business throwing off ₹1,721 crore of profit, growing the bottom line at roughly 69% a year and earning returns on capital — operating…
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Tejas Networks — A Tata bet that ate one giant order and is now learning to eat smaller ones
Tejas Networks is India's one serious home-grown telecom-equipment maker, owned by the Tatas, and it has just lived through the most violent boom-and-bust you'll see on the exchange. A single mammoth order — building BSNL's 100,000-site 4G/5G network — swelled its revenue almost ninefold to ₹8,923 crore in FY25 and…
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Raymond Lifestyle — a century-old brand, a heavy balance sheet, and a new team that would rather under-promise
Raymond Lifestyle is the apparel-and-fabric half of the 100-year-old Raymond group, hived off into its own listed company in 2024 while the old parent kept the real estate and engineering. What you get is a genuinely strong franchise — the highest market share in worsted suiting fabric in India, brands most Indian men…
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Shoppers Stop — a department store going upmarket to escape being squeezed from both ends
Shoppers Stop is the hardest business in this apparel cohort, and it knows it. The department-store format it pioneered in India is being squeezed from both ends — Zudio and value fashion from below, Nykaa and online from the beauty side — and the financials show the strain: roughly ₹5,000 crore of sales that, after…
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J B Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals — a brand-compounding machine, now being folded into Torrent
JB Pharma is one of India's best-run mid-cap drug companies — a chronic-and-cardiac branded franchise wrapped around a genuinely world-class lozenge-manufacturing business, throwing off mid-20s% returns on capital with essentially no debt. But the standalone story is ending. Over FY26, Torrent Pharma bought control…
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Honasa Consumer — the Mamaearth machine learns to make money
Honasa is the company behind Mamaearth, and the last year is the story of a young, hot-growth brand house finally turning the corner on profit. FY26 revenue was ₹2,392 crore (+16%), but the real news is the bottom line: net profit jumped to ₹200 crore from ₹73 crore, operating margin climbed from 3% to 10%, and the…
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Go Fashion — a fat-margin niche champion stuck in a same-store-growth drought
Go Fashion owns Go Colors, which did to women's leggings and bottom-wear what no one else bothered to: turn a basic, unbranded category into a focused national brand, and earn fabulous margins doing it. The economics are genuinely lovely — 63–64% gross margins, nearly all of it sold at full price, ~30% store-level…
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Aditya Birla Lifestyle — the profitable half of the old ABFRL, finally free to spend on itself
If ABFRL was the messy, loss-making conglomerate, Aditya Birla Lifestyle Brands is the part that always worked. Demerged out of ABFRL and listed in mid-2025, ABLBL is the Madura business — the formal-menswear powerhouse built on four brands you'll find in every Indian mall: Louis Philippe, Van Heusen, Allen Solly and…
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ABFRL — a sprawling fashion house, slimmed by demerger, racing the clock to profit
For most of the last decade Aditya Birla Fashion was India's biggest, busiest, and least profitable fashion company — a conglomerate that bought brands faster than it could make them pay, and posted a net loss in something like seven of eight years. In May 2025 it finally took the knife to itself: the mature,…
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Schneider Electric Infrastructure — a niche grid-gear maker riding the power-capex wave
Schneider Electric Infrastructure (SEIL) is the listed Indian arm of France's Schneider Electric that makes medium-voltage electrical equipment — the transformers, switchgear and "ring main units" that step electricity down and route it safely through the power grid, factories, buildings and increasingly data centres.…
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Netweb Technologies — India's home-grown AI-supercomputer maker at full sprint
Netweb designs and builds high-end computers in India — supercomputers, AI servers packed with graphics chips, and private-cloud systems — for governments, research bodies and large companies. It is, in its own words, India's only full-stack domestic maker of these machines, and that positioning has put it squarely in…
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Titan — Growing Through a Gold Tornado, Margin as an Afterthought
Titan is the Tata group's lifestyle giant — best known as India's largest organised jewellery retailer (Tanishq, Mia, CaratLane, Zoya), with watches, eyewear and a clutch of emerging businesses alongside. The defining fact of its FY26 was gold: a near-continuous, parabolic climb in the gold price all year, which…
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Zen Technologies — a defence champion waiting on a slow government order cycle
Zen Technologies makes two things the Indian military increasingly needs: realistic combat training simulators (so soldiers can train without firing live rounds) and anti-drone systems (to detect and shoot down hostile drones). It's the largest Indian player in both, builds its technology in-house, and earns unusually…
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Yatharth Hospital — Building Beds Faster Than the Cycle Can Punish
Yatharth runs a cluster of multi-specialty hospitals in and around Delhi NCR, built around the idea of putting tertiary-care beds where the population has outrun the hospital supply. Through FY26 it grew fast and spent fast: revenue rose 36% to ₹1,207 crore even as it opened two ~700-bed hospitals, bought a third in…
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Welspun Corp — a global pipe leader stepping into a new earnings gear
Welspun Corp is one of the world's three largest makers of large-diameter steel pipes — the big pipelines that carry oil, gas and water across continents — with factories in India, the US and Saudi Arabia. It has also built a second leg in building materials (water tanks, ductile-iron water pipes, stainless steel, the…
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Syrma SGS — an electronics contract-maker climbing the value ladder
Syrma SGS is a factory-for-hire: it designs and builds electronic products and circuit boards that other companies sell under their own brands — for cars, factory equipment, medical devices, consumer gadgets and more. The year just ended (FY26) was its best by a distance: revenue up 27% to ₹4,857 crore and profit up…
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Tata Consumer — Trying to Stop Being a Tea-and-Salt Company
Tata Consumer is the Tata group's food-and-beverages arm, built on two cash cows — Tata Tea and Tata Salt — and engaged in a deliberate, multi-year effort to become something bigger: a diversified, multi-category food company. FY26 was a clean illustration of both the strategy and its frictions: a tea-cost spike…
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SRF — Through the Trough and Out the Other Side, One Molecule at a Time
SRF makes four loosely related things — refrigerant gases and specialty chemicals, plastic films for packaging, industrial textiles for tyres and conveyor belts, and a growing line of aluminium foil — and for two years (FY24 and FY25) most of those businesses were having a bad time at once. By the year ended March…
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Solar Industries — an explosives maker turning into a defence powerhouse
Solar Industries started as — and still is — one of the world's largest makers of industrial explosives, the stuff that blasts rock in mines and for infrastructure. But the real story is its transformation into a defence company: making artillery shells, rockets (the army's Pinaka), propellants, loitering "kamikaze"…
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SAIL — a state steel giant in a low-return patch, building for the next cycle
SAIL (Steel Authority of India) is the government-owned steel giant — five big integrated plants in eastern and central India, near the iron-ore mines, making the steel that goes into railways, construction and industry. It's a classic commodity-cyclical business: its profit is essentially the gap between the steel…
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Siemens India — a quality industrial, mid-reshuffle and worth reading carefully
Siemens Ltd is the Indian arm of the German engineering giant — it makes factory automation, building and electrical infrastructure, and rail/metro systems. It is debt-free, ~75%-owned by parent Siemens AG, and a genuinely high-quality industrial. But its recent numbers are unusually hard to read because two big…
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Narayana Hrudayalaya — A Cardiac Hospital Turning Into a Three-Country Conglomerate
Narayana Hrudayalaya built its name on a simple, radical idea — high-quality cardiac surgery at affordable Indian prices, at scale. It is now becoming something more complicated: a three-country, multi-business group. The core India hospital business is compounding beautifully (segment EBITDA margin climbed from 21.5%…
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Rainbow Children's Medicare — A Record Bed-Build Meets a Missing Season
Rainbow is India's largest pediatric and perinatal hospital chain — children's hospitals and maternity/women's-health under one roof, concentrated in the South (Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, coastal Andhra) with newer pushes into Delhi NCR, the Northeast and other cities. FY26 was a year of mismatched timing: the…
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NTPC — the predictable giant powering India, mid-way through its biggest build-out
NTPC is India's largest electricity producer — it generates roughly a quarter of the country's power from about 83 gigawatts of mostly coal-fired plants, and sells it to state utilities. What makes it unusual as an investment is how it earns: it operates on a regulated-return model, where the government essentially…
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MosChip — a chip-design turnaround riding India's semiconductor push, with caveats
MosChip is a Hyderabad-based company that designs computer chips and the engineering around them — it doesn't build them in a factory; it sells brains, not silicon by the tonne. After a long stretch of losses through 2021, it turned the corner and has grown fast: revenue roughly tripled in three years to about ₹585…
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NALCO — the lowest-cost aluminium play, cheap and debt-free, riding the alumina price
NALCO is a government-owned aluminium company with a rare advantage: it owns the entire chain — its own bauxite mines, its own alumina refinery, its own smelter, and its own power plant — which makes it one of the lowest-cost producers of bauxite and alumina in the world. Crucially, it refines far more alumina than it…
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Kovai Medical Center — A Coimbatore Stalwart Finally Looks Beyond Home
KMCH is a single-city institution — a large, respected multi-specialty hospital group built over decades in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, run by the founding Palaniswami family. For most of its life it has grown carefully at home: lifting occupancy, sweating its beds, and keeping the balance sheet conservative. The three…
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Jeena Sikho — An Ayurveda Roll-Up in a Hurry
Jeena Sikho Lifecare runs a fast-growing chain of Ayurvedic hospitals and clinics (the "Shathayu" network) and sells Ayurvedic medicines — and through FY26 it grew at a pace that is rare in healthcare: full-year revenue up ~71% to ₹801 crore, profit to ₹222 crore, on eye-popping operating margins (44% for the year,…
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Nykaa — The Profitability Finally Showed Up; Now About That Valuation
Nykaa is India's leading online beauty retailer, and FY26 was the year its long-promised profitability stopped being a promise. Net revenue crossed ₹10,000 crore (~$1 billion, +26%), profit nearly tripled to ₹204 crore, and — the single cleanest test of management's word — the loss-making Fashion arm reached EBITDA…
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Gujarat Fluorochemicals — Two Companies in One: A Fluoropolymer Recovery and a Battery Bet
Gujarat Fluorochemicals (GFL) is really two businesses stapled together. One is a mature, world-class fluorine-chemistry maker — PTFE and other fluoropolymers, refrigerant gases, bulk chemicals — that has just clawed its way back from a brutal down-cycle to about ₹5,000 crore of revenue and a recovering ~24% margin.…
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Hindalco — a low-cost metals giant, cheap, while its biggest arm waits to recover
Hindalco, the Aditya Birla group's metals flagship, has two very different halves. Its India aluminium business is one of the lowest-cost, most profitable in the world — it makes metal from its own bauxite and power at a ~44% margin, "best in the global industry." Its bigger half is Novelis, the US-listed,…
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Deepak Nitrite — Spending the Cash Pile to Build a Chemicals Chain
Deepak Nitrite spent the last three years deliberately trading today's profits for tomorrow's scale. Once a famously debt-free, high-return chemicals maker, it is now in the thick of an ₹11,000 crore capital-spending programme to build an integrated chemicals chain — culminating in India's first home-grown…
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Bajaj Consumer Care — A One-Brand Company Trying to Become a Two-Brand One
Bajaj Consumer Care is, for all practical purposes, a single product: Almond Drops Hair Oil, the light "almond" hair oil that is roughly 80% of its sales. For years that one brand had stagnated — five-year revenue growth of under 5% — and the whole investment case hinges on two linked questions: can they revive Almond…
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Bharat Forge — a forging giant leaning on defence while its truck cycle bottoms
Bharat Forge, the flagship of the Kalyani group, is one of the world's biggest metal-forging companies — it shapes high-strength steel and aluminium parts for trucks, cars, aircraft, oil rigs and, increasingly, weapons. The year just ended (FY26) was a transition year with crossing currents: its core auto-export…
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Atul — A Lalbhai-Group Cycle: Peak, Trough, and Back to a Record
Atul is a 78-year-old Lalbhai-group chemical company that makes a wide spread of things — crop-protection actives, pharmaceutical intermediates, aromatics, dyes and pigments, and epoxy resins. Over the last four years it ran a full chemical cycle: a disappointing FY23 already off its 2020–21 highs, a sharp…
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Asian Paints — A Great Franchise Meets Its First Real Fight
Asian Paints is India's dominant decorative-paints company and, for decades, one of the great compounding machines of the Indian market — a near-monopoly throwing off 30–40% returns on capital with metronomic consistency. That era has cracked. Deep-pocketed new entrants (Birla Opus, backed by the Aditya Birla group; a…
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Anupam Rasayan — From an LOI Spree to an Acquisition Spree
Anupam Rasayan makes complicated molecules to order — the multi-step chemistry that global agrochemical and pharmaceutical companies would rather outsource to a trusted specialist than run themselves. For two years (FY24 and FY25) the business sat in a holding pattern: revenue flat, profit squeezed, a big new factory…
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ABB India — a pristine franchise catching its breath after a record run
ABB India is the Indian arm of the Swiss engineering giant ABB — it makes the electrical and automation gear that powers factories, buildings, railways and data centres: switchgear, motors, drives, robots, process-control systems. It is a genuinely excellent business — debt-free, cash-rich (₹5,000-crore-plus pile),…
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Apollo Hospitals — Splitting the Pharmacy Off While the Hospitals Compound
Apollo is India's largest private hospital network and, bolted onto it, one of the country's largest pharmacy-and-digital-health businesses. Through FY26 the company was doing two things at once: compounding a high-return hospital business (revenue ₹25,228 crore for the year, profit ₹2,003 crore) while engineering its…
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DMart — The Discipline Is the Strategy
DMart is India's most profitable physical grocery retailer, built on a single stubborn idea: buy cheap, sell cheap, own the building, and never get greedy on margin. It does ~₹69,000 crore of sales (FY26) at a thin ~8% operating margin and ₹2,970 crore of profit, growing revenue in the mid-teens by opening 40–50 owned…
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Aarti Industries — A Long Wait for the Cycle to Turn
Aarti Industries turns benzene and toluene into a long list of specialty chemicals that end up in crop protection, plastics, dyes, fuel additives and pharmaceuticals. For about four years it has been stuck in the same trap: revenue keeps climbing on volume, but profit sits at roughly a third of its FY22 peak, squeezed…
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Rashi Peripherals — the middleman of Indian tech hardware, riding a price wave
Rashi Peripherals is a distributor — the company that buys computer hardware from global brands (processors, graphics cards, laptops, networking gear) and sells it onward to thousands of Indian resellers, shops and businesses. It's a high-volume, wafer-thin-margin business: out of every ₹100 of sales it keeps only…
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Polycab India — the quiet giant of Indian wiring keeps taking the market
Polycab makes the wires and cables that carry electricity through India's buildings, factories and power grids — and it is the biggest maker of them in the country by a wide margin. In the year just ended (FY26) it sold ₹28,884 crore worth of product, up 29%, and earned ₹2,708 crore in profit, both records, while…
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R R Kabel — a cable maker hitting its stride, with a consumer arm still to crack
R R Kabel makes wires and cables — the bulk of its business — plus a smaller range of consumer electrical goods (fans, lights, switches) sold under the RR brand. The year just ended (FY26) was its best ever: sales up 28% to ₹9,722 crore and profit up 58% to ₹492 crore, with profit margins recovering smartly after a…
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KEC International — record orders, recovering profits, and a cash-flow problem
KEC International, the flagship of the RPG group, is a construction contractor — its core trade is building the towers and lines that carry electricity, and it does this around the world. The year just ended (FY26) was, on the surface, a record: revenue at an all-time high of ₹23,506 crore, the best-ever reported…
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Kalpataru Projects — a global builder finally cleaning up its balance sheet
Kalpataru Projects (KPIL) is a construction contractor — it builds power transmission lines, pipelines, railways, factories and water systems, in India and across 30-odd countries. In the year just ended (FY26) it grew sales 22% to ₹27,143 crore and nearly doubled profit to ₹1,031 crore, but the more important story…
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KEI Industries — a cable maker betting a year of patience on one big new plant
KEI is one of India's larger wire-and-cable makers — the company behind a lot of the heavy power cabling in factories, substations and buildings, plus household wires sold through dealers. In the year just ended (FY26) it grew sales 21% to ₹11,748 crore and profit 32% to ₹918 crore, kept its usual steady ~10–11%…
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Black Box — a turnaround built on profit, now chasing a much bigger size
Black Box (the Essar group's global IT-infrastructure company, once known as AGC Networks) builds and manages the technology plumbing of large organisations — the communication networks, data centres, and cybersecurity setups that 8,000-plus companies around the world run on. The past three years are a genuine…
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Acutaas Chemicals — a small chemistry company quietly moving up in the world
Acutaas (until last year called Ami Organics) is a Surat company that makes the chemical building blocks inside medicines. Over the past year its sales grew a third, to ₹1,339 crore, and its profit doubled, to ₹356 crore — not because it suddenly sold much more stuff, but because it has spent years deliberately…
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Stocks, Bonds, Gold & Crypto Crash - What's Going On?
Everything sold off on the same day — stocks, gold, bonds, crypto all down together. The trigger was a jobs report that came in much hotter than expected, which tells the market the Fed might raise interest rates instead of cutting them. Higher rates make safe Treasury bonds more attractive than risky stocks, so money…
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Morgan Stanley's Ridham Desai On Where Indian Markets Are Headed | Kushal Lodha #333
Ridham Desai, Morgan Stanley's India strategist of 35 years, spends most of this conversation not on stock tips but on how he thinks. His core idea: the biggest profits sit exactly where things feel most uncertain — when nobody can tell whether the next outcome is a doubling or a halving, that's the moment worth…
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Booming Jobs Report, Plummeting Market: What's Going On? | ITK With Cathie Wood
The June 2026 jobs report came in hot — way more hires than expected — and yet stocks fell hard the same day. Cathie Wood's explanation: the market is afraid the Fed will read "strong economy" as "danger, inflation coming" and refuse to cut rates, or even hike. She thinks that fear is wrong. Her bet is that AI and…
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India Market Risks and New Opportunities Explained | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
Two fund managers — Radhika Gupta (Edelweiss) and Navneet Munot (HDFC AMC) — sit on a panel hosted by Govindraj Ethiraj and argue about how to invest when the world won't stop surprising you. Their shared verdict: market cycles have gotten shorter, everything is driven by momentum rather than thinking, and the only…
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Researcher REVEALS Secrets of US Deep State Politics | Dr. Aaron Good
A political scientist argues that you cannot understand US foreign policy by looking only at the official government on paper. Big swings in policy — like America going from "no Greater Israel" to "Greater Israel above all" in just a few years — make no sense if you assume the state is one rational machine. His…
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3 Indian Women Leaders in Finance discuss Long-term Investing Mindset
Three women who run money for a living — a public-equity quant (Devina Mehra), a private-equity manager (Shivani Bhasin Sachdeva), and a fixed-income specialist (Lakshmi Iyer) — sit on a panel about long-term investing. The recurring message: get your broad asset allocation right and most of the work is done; the rest…
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The Unspoken Truth About AI, Energy & Global Wealth Shifts | Global Sectors Masterclass
A fund manager argues that the world quietly flipped in 2022, and the investing playbook that worked for the previous decade is now broken. The old game was "buy America, hold bonds, let the dollar do the work." The new game is governments forcing money out of consumption and into factories, supply chains, and defense…
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What Happens After A 1,000,000x AI Compute Leap? | Jeff Dean
Jeff Dean runs the science side of Google's AI work, and here he talks shop with an enthusiastic interviewer. The big claims: we are not running out of data to train AI (there's video, there's machine-made data, and clever tricks to squeeze more from what we have); the bottleneck has quietly shifted from building…
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Why Economics is Bullsh*t – and How to Fix It | Kate Raworth on 'Doughnut Economics'
Kate Raworth got an Oxford economics degree and came out thinking it was missing half of reality: no ecology, no human rights, inequality treated as a footnote. Her fix is a picture of a doughnut. The hole in the middle is everyone falling short on basics like food and housing; the outer edge is the point where we…
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Rome's Crisis of the Third Century Explained with Adrian Goldsworthy
For about two hundred years Rome had been calm and rich. Then, starting in the 230s AD, it spent roughly fifty years tearing itself apart: somewhere north of thirty men claimed the throne, and almost all of them were murdered within months. While the Romans were busy killing each other, new enemies on the borders — a…
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When a Housing Boom Turns to Bust
A house doesn't actually make anything. When its price doubles, no new wealth appears — a younger buyer just has to borrow more to pay an older seller. For forty years, falling interest rates let people borrow ever-larger sums on the same monthly paycheck, so prices climbed without wages climbing. Now rates have gone…
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A Man Spent 10 Years in Sex Cults — What He Discovered Will Change How You See God (part 2)
Despite the lurid title, this is a literature lecture. The "man who spent 10 years in sex cults" is journalist Gay Talese, who spent the 1970s reporting his book Thy Neighbor's Wife. The lecturer walks through three characters from that book — a compulsive masturbator, a swingers-cult founder, and Talese himself — and…
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Semiconductors & energy policy: The link driving India's growth | Energonomics | EP 18
India loses about a fifth of all the electricity it generates just by moving it around — wires leak power on the way from the plant to your house. A power-semiconductor executive argues that instead of rebuilding the whole creaky grid, India should put smart chips into the system to claw back those losses, and skip…
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The Wealth Secrets No One Teaches You | Morgan Housel
Morgan Housel argues that money is less a performance drug and more a vaccine: it prevents misery but doesn't manufacture happiness. The real game isn't maximizing returns, it's surviving long enough to let compounding work, and wanting less so that what you have starts to count. Every dollar saved is a "claim check"…
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Neel Kashkari, President of the Minneapolis Fed, on Tariffs and More
A FRONTLINE reporter spends 20 minutes pushing Neel Kashkari, the Minneapolis Fed president, on one question phrased a dozen ways: why won't the Fed cut interest rates when Trump, the markets, and ordinary borrowers all seem to want it? Kashkari's answer never changes. Inflation is still running around 3%, well above…
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Data Patterns — the contract that's always one to two months away
Data Patterns closed FY26 with revenue of ₹925 crore, up 31% — beating its own 20–25% guidance — at a 40% EBITDA margin that is, as a Goldman Sachs analyst put it on the February call, close to world-leading for a radar-electronics company. The quarterly path to that number was a rollercoaster (₹99 crore, then ₹308,…
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Tata Steel — India pays, Europe heals, the UK waits for Westminster
Tata Steel finished FY26 with EBITDA of ₹34,848 crore — up 35% — and profit of roughly ₹10,886 crore, more than triple the prior year, on the back of the largest cost-cutting program in its history: ₹10,868 crore of savings delivered against an ₹11,500 crore target. India, now 74% of group steel production, generated…
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Tata Chemicals — four quarters of waiting for the soda ash cycle to turn
Tata Chemicals ended FY26 with a ₹1,715 crore consolidated loss — its India business actually grew and stayed profitable, but a ₹1,837 crore writedown on its American soda ash operation, plus a year of prices "approaching record low levels," sank the group. The stock trades below book value, the P/E column on screener…
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Wheels India — a thin-margin wheel maker quietly re-engineering itself
Wheels India crossed ₹5,000 crore of revenue for the first time in FY26 — ₹5,124 crore standalone, up 16% in a year management had guided to single digits, rescued by a GST-2.0-charged second half it admits it didn't expect. Net profit hit a record ₹158 crore (consolidated), nearly tripling in two years, and the March…
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TD Power Systems — the generator maker the AI boom found
TD Power Systems makes the generators that bolt onto other people's turbines and engines, and in FY26 the people who make those turbines and engines — for US data centers, mostly — could not get enough of them. Consolidated income rose 44% to ₹1,878 crore, order inflows jumped 51% to ₹2,238 crore, and the company beat…
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Tata Power — record profits with the big plant switched off
Tata Power closed FY26 with its first-ever full-year profit above ₹5,000 crore — ₹5,118 crore on the screener tape — while its single largest power plant, the 4 GW Mundra coal station, sat idle for nine of those twelve months. The company spent the year promising ₹25,000 crore of capex and delivering roughly ₹13,000…
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Swiggy — four quarters of chasing breakeven
Swiggy closed FY26 with ₹23,053 crore in revenue, up roughly 51% on the year, and a net loss of ₹4,154 crore — its largest since FY20. Those two numbers are the whole company in miniature: a food-delivery business that prints steady, profitable growth, bolted to a quick-commerce business (Instamart) that has spent the…
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Power Grid — The Year the Spending Exploded and the P&L Stood Still
Power Grid is the company that owns India's electricity highways — the high-voltage lines that move power across the country — and earns a government-regulated toll for the privilege. For three years its revenue barely moved, stuck around ₹46,000–48,000 crore, because the network it built in the 2010s had matured and…
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Navin Fluorine — the margin guidance that couldn't keep up
Navin Fluorine spent FY26 doing something unusual on Indian earnings calls: repeatedly raising its margin guidance and still getting beaten by its own results. The 25% EBITDA target set in May 2025 became "north of 25%" in July, "28 to 30%" in October, and by February the CFO simply conceded: "it is now safe to think…
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Laurus Labs — the down-cycle ends, the capex never did
Laurus Labs spent FY26 completing one of Indian pharma's cleaner cyclical recoveries. Two years after net profit cratered to ₹162 crore (FY24) from the COVID-era ARV windfall's ₹984 crore peak, FY26 closed — per the financial tables; the Q4 call transcript wasn't retrievable — at ₹6,813 crore of revenue, a 26%…
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MTAR Technologies — the year the guidance kept climbing
MTAR closed FY26 with record revenue of ₹876 crore, up 30%, and net profit of ₹94 crore — finally back near the FY23 peak after a two-year margin slump. The year inside that number was a rollercoaster: a tariff-disrupted September quarter where profit fell to ₹4 crore, followed by the two biggest quarters in the…
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NLC India — a lignite PSU promising to 7x its renewables
NLC India closed FY26 with record everything — sales of ₹17,490 crore, net profit of ₹3,769 crore (up 39%), and a March quarter that was the best in its history. The asterisks matter, though: FY26 earnings lean on ₹1,887 crore of other income and a 3% effective tax rate (both screener-flagged), and borrowings climbed…
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Paras Defence — a niche-monopoly story, read without management's voice
A caveat before anything else: Paras Defence publishes no earnings-call transcripts — every quarterly entry on its screener documents page going back to 2022 is a presentation, not a transcript. So this chronicle, unlike its siblings, has no management promises to check against results. What it has is three annual…
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Larsen & Toubro — four quarters of 'fifteen percent, that is baked in'
Larsen & Toubro closed FY26 with ₹2,85,874 crore in revenue — up 12% in a year it had guided 15% all the way through January — and a record order book of ₹7.4 trillion, up 28%. The miss has a specific address: a war in West Asia that froze supply chains in the quarter that was supposed to deliver the catch-up, plus a…
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JSW Energy — a 30 GW bet where the interest bill arrives before the profits
JSW Energy closed FY26 with its highest-ever EBITDA — ₹11,041 crore — installed capacity of 13.45 GW (up 75% in two years), and a profit line that barely moved. That contradiction is the whole company right now: depreciation and interest on a mountain of newly built and newly bought assets are eating the operating…
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JSW Steel — the year the balance sheet found partners
JSW Steel ended FY26 calling it a "transformational year," and for once the corporate adjective fits the ledger. The company sold a 50% stake in Bhushan Power & Steel to Japan's JFE — deconsolidating ~₹37,000 crore of debt at a stroke — signed a second JV with Korea's POSCO for a 6 mtpa greenfield plant in Odisha,…
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HCL Technologies — The Year It Chose Growth Over Margin
HCLTech is India's third-largest IT services company, a ₹3.1 lakh crore business that writes software, runs other companies' technology, and engineers their products, for a roster of the world's largest firms across 60 countries. It enters the middle of 2026 in a strange shape: the top line is still growing and the…
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Eternal — The Year Blinkit Broke Even and Revenue Tripled on an Accounting Switch
Eternal is the company you still think of as Zomato — it renamed itself in 2025 and now sits as a holding company over four businesses: Zomato (food delivery), Blinkit (10-minute grocery, the "quick commerce" everyone is fighting over), District (booking tables, movies and concerts), and Hyperpure (supplying…
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Astra Microwave — a quiet year, sold on the loud ones coming
Astra Microwave closed FY26 with record numbers — ₹1,157 crore of standalone revenue, a ~55% gross margin its CFO admits is "probably as best as it gets," and operating cash flow that swung from minus ₹99 crore to plus ₹370 crore. And yet the year's actual growth, about 10%, was roughly half of what management guided…
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Cummins India — steady diesel, lumpy data centers
Cummins India finished FY26 with sales of ₹11,950 crore, up 18%, and profit before tax up 24% — comfortably clearing the "double-digit growth" guidance management repeated, without once tightening it, on all four calls. The year's texture came from one customer category: data centers, now 30–35% of domestic…
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CG Power — the grid pays for the chips
CG Power's FY26 was a record on every line that matters: standalone sales of ₹11,331 crore (+21%), PAT up 39%, order intake of ₹17,574 crore (+30%), and an unexecuted backlog of ₹15,719 crore, up 59%. One segment did the heavy lifting — Power Systems (transformers and switchgear) grew sales 46% at a 21.9% margin with…
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Groww — The First Six Months of Talking to the Street
Groww — listed under the name of its parent, Billionbrains Garage Ventures — is India's largest digital investment platform by active NSE users, and as of June 2026 a ₹1.23 lakh crore public company trading at 59 times earnings. It came to the market in November 2025 and has since held exactly two earnings calls, both…
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Apar Industries — a record year threaded through the tariff needle
Apar closed FY26 with all-time-high revenue of ₹22,902 crore, up 23%, and net profit of ₹977 crore — a year in which its biggest export market, the US, went from boom (pre-tariff buying) to a two-month standstill (Section 232's 50% metal duty) to a 250% sequential rebound in the final quarter, exactly as management…
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Adani Energy Solutions — wires, meters, and a deadline that kept moving
Adani Energy Solutions is India's largest private transmission company, the electricity distributor for Mumbai, and — as of this year — the country's biggest installer of smart meters. FY26 closed with revenue of ₹27,588 crore and net profit rebounding to ₹2,393 crore from a depressed FY25. Underneath: an order…
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Adani Enterprises — the incubator's harvest year, paid for in advance
Adani Enterprises is the Adani Group's flagship and incubator — the entity that hatched Adani Ports, Adani Power, Adani Green and the rest before spinning them off. FY26 was the year three of its current eggs cracked open at once: Navi Mumbai airport opened on Christmas Day 2025, the Kutch copper smelter approached…
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Adani Green — five gigawatts delivered, and a grid that couldn't keep up
Adani Green Energy ended FY26 with 19.3 GW of operating renewable capacity — up 35% in a year — having added 5.1 GW against its 5 GW promise, sold 37.6 billion units of electricity, and posted an EBITDA of ₹10,865 crore at a 91.2% margin. It also ended the year with ₹1,03,545 crore of borrowings against ₹19,965 crore…
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Adani Power — the self-funding story meets a ₹2 lakh crore bill
Adani Power is India's largest private thermal generator — 18.15 GW of coal-fired capacity, 7.3% of the country's coal-based generation — midway through a plan to more than double itself to 42 GW by FY32. The year under review was the awkward middle chapter: revenue dipped to ₹54,241 crore, plant utilisation slid as…
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Adani Ports — guidance as a culture, and the year the goalposts quietly moved
Adani Ports & SEZ closed FY26 with revenue of ₹38,736 crore (up 25%), net profit of ₹12,782 crore (up 16%), and a freshly minted five-year plan called "Ambition 2031" — double the business in five years at a 20% return on capital. The company crossed 500 million tonnes of cargo, consolidated its Australian terminal,…
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Paul Schmelzing Shares Five lessons From Seven Centuries of the International Financial System
A finance professor spent seven years digging through old debt contracts — some literally from the Vatican Library — to rebuild interest rates, inflation, and government debt going back 700 years. His big finding: interest rates haven't been falling since the 1980s, they've been falling since the 1300s. Most of what…
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The Next 5 Years Will Be Economically Brutal | Naval Ravikant
A calm voice argues that the next five years won't look like the last decade, because five separate pressures are arriving at once: AI eating white-collar jobs, a mountain of government debt that keeps inflation sticky, houses no one young can afford, the baby boomers retiring and selling their assets, and factories…
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In the New Middle East, No One Is In Charge
A former foreign minister of Jordan walks through why the Middle East feels like chaos right now: there are too many countries jockeying for the top spot and none of them is strong enough to set the rules, not even the United States. The recent war on Iran didn't fix anything — it deepened the cracks. But the guest's…
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DeepMind's New AI Found A Strange New Way To Think
DeepMind built an AI system that cracked nine math problems that nobody had solved in over 50 years — for a couple hundred dollars each. The clever part isn't a smarter AI. It's that they took an AI that lies constantly and wrapped it in a referee system that catches the lies. The AI fails thousands of times, and a…
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Google & AWS Veteran: What Top Tier Software Architects Do Differently
A retired Google and AWS veteran explains what separates a good software architect from a bad one. The short version: a good architect isn't the genius in the room handing down answers. They're the person who makes everyone else smarter — they draw a quick picture, ask a sharp question, and suddenly the team can see…
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Ben Carlson: Investing at All-Time Highs | Rational Reminder 412
Ben Carlson writes about markets for a living, and his whole pitch is that the boring advice is the correct advice. Buying when stocks are at all-time highs usually works out fine. The scary counterexamples people love to cite — Japan in 1989, the 1929 crash — were extreme outliers, and even those weren't as ruinous…
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AGI Will Never Be Yours | Emad Mostaque | Open Commons Ep. 3
Emad Mostaque, who built Stability AI and then walked away from it, thinks the best AI models are about to stop being available to ordinary people. The companies racing to build them will keep the smartest ones for themselves, because handing out the most powerful technology in history is not how you stay powerful.…
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Attention is Power: The Hidden Energy You're Losing Every Day
A spiritual teacher argues that attention is a limited resource — like a battery you spend all day, mostly without noticing. Whatever you pay attention to grows; whatever steals your attention drains you. Most people leak their attention into other people's dramas, their own anxious fantasies, and endless inner…
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2.5L Loss To ₹100 Crores Journey. The Secret Framework Revealed! | Kushal Lodha #14
A Mumbai trader takes ₹10 lakh of risk capital to Kolkata, loses ₹2.5 lakh in the first six months (most of it to brokerage and taxes, not bad bets), then rides a single natural-gas trade and the 2008 crash to his first crore. From there the story is less about screen-staring and more about building businesses — a…
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The better AI gets, the smaller its share of the economy might get – Alex Imas and Phil Trammell
Two economists try to figure out what happens to jobs, wages, and wealth when AI gets good enough to do almost everything. The surprising headline: the better AI gets at producing something, the smaller a slice of the economy that thing might become, because once something is cheap and abundant, people stop spending…
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Shailesh Haribhakti Exclusive - 100X Companies, Rupee At 85 & No Tax Returns | The BroadView
Shailesh Haribhakti — a veteran auditor who spent four decades inside corporate India's boardrooms — sits down with The BroadView and refuses to be gloomy. While everyone frets about oil prices, a weak rupee, and AI eating jobs, he argues the opposite: we're in the most abundant moment in human history, Indian…
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Mental Models for Exceptional Capital Allocation by Mohnish Pabrai at The UNO on May 1, 2026
Mohnish Pabrai walks through 30 mental models he uses to invest, most of them borrowed wholesale from Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett. The core message: very few decisions actually matter (about 4% of stocks produced all the market's gains over 90 years), so make few bets, make them big, and then sit on your hands.…
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How Founders Self-Sabotage: Dave Blakely on Truth, Pressure, and Leading Without Losing Yourself
A veteran product builder and board adviser sits down with a founder-turned-investor and they trade war stories about the quiet ways leaders wreck themselves. The big one: founders who shape-shift to please whoever is in the room — investors, the board, the team — and end up trusted by nobody. The cure is unglamorous:…
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If You Hack The Code Of Reality, You Become God | Dr Melvin Vopson
A physicist named Melvin Vopson thinks the universe might be running on something like computer code, and that "information" is a real, physical, weighable thing — maybe even the stuff that 95% of the universe is secretly made of. From there he leaps to bigger claims: that we live in a simulation, that whoever cracks…
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Author Neil Howe on America's Looming Civic Transformation | WSJ
Neil Howe thinks American history runs on an 80-year clock. Roughly every long human lifetime, the country goes through a giant crisis — a war, a financial crash, a civil breakdown, often all at once — that smashes the old order and builds a new one. He says we are due for the next one right now, sometime between the…
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Fund Manager Who Called Rally Warns: The Great Rotation Is About To Begin | Thomas Hayes
Hedge fund manager Thomas Hayes thinks the stock market right now is a coiled spring held in place by one event: the Iran war. While the war drags on, oil and inflation fears are high, so investors have crammed all their money into AI stocks — the only thing that seems safe in a slow-growth world. Hayes argues the war…
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Trend following, risk management & long term survival w/ Jon Boorman (stock trader)
Jon Boorman spent 30 years inside the machine — back office, trading desks, the sell side, a prop desk — before getting laid off in 2004 and rebuilding his whole philosophy from scratch. What he landed on is almost embarrassingly simple: buy stocks that are going up, and get out fast when they stop. No predictions, no…
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The India Opportunity Is Far Bigger Than Most Investors Realize! Ft. Kuntal Shah
Kuntal Shah, a value investor with three decades in Indian markets, argues the current gloom — foreign investors selling, a weak rupee, banks and IT stocks getting hammered — is a corrective phase, not a structural break. His central message: most rich families and new "family offices" are quietly running…
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Lloyds Metals & Energy: The Mega Miner | The Spotlight ft. Rajesh Gupta, MD, LMEL
A family-run steel company sat on a single iron ore mine in a Maoist-hit corner of Maharashtra for nearly 30 years, unable to dig it because of permits, murders, and burned trucks. The moment the lease finally cleared in 2021, the business exploded: revenue went from 250 crore to 17,000 crore in five years, the stock…
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Decoding Bain's India Venture Capital report | Subtext by Zerodha
Two Bain partners who write India's annual venture capital report sit down with two Zerodha hosts to talk around the report — not its numbers, but the texture underneath. The headline: while broad deal activity in India cooled, the slice they call "VC and growth" actually grew, hence the report's title, Warm Currents…
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15 High-Growth Companies with Big Revenue Targets for FY27 🚀
The Q4 FY26 results season was actually good — revenue up 15%, profits up 23% across 3,500-odd companies — but the market is sulking because crude is near $100, foreigners dumped 2.2 lakh crore of Indian stocks, and the rupee is one of Asia's worst performers. Shankar Nath ignores the price action and instead pulls…
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Why next-gen AI scale-up needs CPO
Inside an AI data center, thousands of chips need to talk to each other constantly. They do this over copper wires, the same metal in the cables behind your TV. But copper has a hard limit: the faster you push data through it, the shorter the distance it can travel. We are now bumping into that wall. The fix is to…
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The Petrodollar Is Cracking: Varoufakis & Wolff on Empire, Iran and Capitalism's Crisis
Two Marxist economists argue that the dollar's hold on the world rests on a 50-year-old deal: oil gets priced in dollars, oil exporters park their earnings back in US assets, and that keeps the dollar in demand. The war with Iran has choked off the Gulf's oil income, so the Gulf states can't make good on roughly $3…
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The New Oil Superpowers Are Not Who You Think | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
A Friday morning India business briefing. The headline idea: the oil map has quietly redrawn itself. The Western Hemisphere — the Americas, plus Africa — now pumps more oil than the Middle East used to, so a Middle East flare-up scares markets less than it once did. The rest of the episode is housekeeping: the RBI is…
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The SpaceX IPO and Data Centers in Space | Stratechery by Ben Thompson
SpaceX wants to go public at a $2 trillion valuation while making $18.67 billion in revenue and losing $4.9 billion a year. By any normal math, that's insane. Ben Thompson agrees the numbers are insane — but argues you're not buying the numbers, you're buying a dream, and Musk has a track record of turning his dreams…
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Growth, inflation & the gaps in between: What latest RBI annual report says about where India stands
The RBI's 2025-26 annual report is unusually good news on three fronts at once: India grew faster than anyone else (7.6%), inflation collapsed to 2.1%, and the government kept its deficit on target without slashing investment. The rare part is growth and low inflation arriving together — usually fast growth pushes…
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Neuroscience Confirms - Why Doing Less Helps You Achieve More
When you feel behind, the instinct is to add something — a new habit, a new system, another goal. The argument here is that this backfires. Every unfinished thing you've committed to keeps quietly running in your head and drains energy even when you're not working on it. People who actually get places tend to juggle…
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You Don't Have Desires. Desire Has You | All of Félix Guattari's Philosophy
You feel like your thoughts, wants, and personality belong to you — private property kept somewhere inside your skull. Félix Guattari spent his life arguing the opposite: the self is something a factory builds, and most of the machinery doing the building (families, schools, screens, markets) isn't yours. He wasn't…
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Apple Just Positioned Itself for the Next Trillion Dollars
Tim Cook stepped down, and the two people now running Apple are both chip engineers, not software or AI people. That's a deliberate signal: Apple has decided it can't win the AI race the way OpenAI and Google are running it, so it's changing the game. The bet is that AI will move off the cloud and onto the device you…
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The Rarest Personality Type Usually Succeeds Late In Life, Carl Jung Says
Some people don't find their footing until their mid-30s, and the video argues that's a feature, not a bug. It claims a rare kind of person has an inner life so loud they can't just copy the timelines everyone else follows, so they wander, feel late, and feel alone for a decade. The payoff, supposedly, is that what…
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EV Motors Aren't Done: Inside the Next Wave of EV Drive Units
Everyone obsesses over EV batteries, but the motor is where the quiet progress is happening. A teardown engineer walks through how an EV motor actually works, why nearly every carmaker has independently arrived at the exact same design, and why that sameness is a flashing sign that disruption is coming. The punchline:…
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CTO Insights Ep. 1 | the infrastructure crunch | Data#3
The world is running short on computer memory, and the reason is AI. AI needs a special, fast kind of memory, so the factories that make memory chips are switching their production lines over to make that fast kind instead of the ordinary kind that goes in everything else — laptops, phones, servers, even fridges. Now…
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How Adam Sandler Quietly Became A Billionaire
Critics have hated Adam Sandler's movies for 25 years. He made over $440 million anyway. The trick wasn't being a better actor than Jim Carrey or Eddie Murphy, who each earned about half that. The trick was that Sandler stopped being just the guy who shows up to act and started owning the company that makes the…
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Ex-SEBI Official on Falling Rupee, FIIs, and Indian Markets | ft. Ananth Narayan & Monika Halan
The rupee has fallen hard, and the usual story is "foreigners are leaving." Ananth Narayan, a former currency trader who spent three years as a SEBI regulator, tells a stranger story: India's own savers may have pushed foreign money out. By keeping interest rates low and taxing bonds heavily, the system funnels…
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Toyota Just Made $32 Billion. Everyone Said They Were Wrong.
Around 2021 every big carmaker bet their future on full electric cars. Toyota refused, and kept building hybrids — cars that run on both gas and a small battery. The press called Toyota a dinosaur and tried to push out its chairman. Then EV demand stalled, rivals lost billions, and Toyota posted the biggest profit of…
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How Winston Churchill's frenetic margin trading lost him a fortune | The Story of Money
The Financial Times went digging through the actual trading records of history's most famous geniuses to ask one question: does being brilliant make you good with money? The answer is mostly no. Isaac Newton timed a bubble perfectly, then jumped back in at the top and lost a fortune. Winston Churchill blew an enormous…
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The deal that put the dollar at the centre of the world | The Story of Money
In July 1944, with World War II still raging, hundreds of delegates from 44 countries piled onto trains and went up to a half-collapsing hotel in the New Hampshire mountains to invent the financial system the world would run on after the war. Three weeks of negotiation, heavy drinking, and at least one heart attack…
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Panic of 1873: The railway bubble that hit one of America's greatest financiers | The Story of Money
In the 1870s, America went mad for railways. Companies borrowed staggering amounts of money to lay track across the continent, and ordinary people bought the IOUs. The most respected financier in the country, a man named Jay Cooke, bet everything on one risky railway line, ran out of cash, and his bank collapsed in a…
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The #1 Reason 90% Investors Fail at Financial Freedom (Dr Pattu Reveals) | M Pattabiraman Freefincal
A finance professor who retired early sits down and, instead of selling hope, tells viewers the uncomfortable math. If you do a retirement calculation honestly and it doesn't scare you, you probably got the inputs wrong. The single thing that sinks most people isn't picking the wrong fund — it's temperament: they keep…
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How ancient Mesopotamians solved runaway debt | The Story of Money
About 4,000 years ago in what is now Iraq, ordinary people kept falling into debt they couldn't repay — bad harvest, high interest, and suddenly you've handed your kids over to your lender to work off what you owe. Kings had a fix: every so often, usually when a new king took the throne, they'd cancel all the debts of…
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Why banking in 19th century America was like crypto today | The Story of Money
For roughly forty years in 19th-century America, there was no national currency and no central bank. Anyone who could fill out a form got a license to print their own paper money, so thousands of banks did — and so did outright crooks. The episode follows one charismatic con man, James Brown, who counterfeited notes…
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Uber CEO on AI, Autonomous Vehicles, and the Future of Transportation
Dara Khosrowshahi, the man who took over Uber in 2017 when it was a dumpster fire, walks through how he runs it now. The big bet: self-driving cars are coming fast, and Uber wants to be the place all those robot cars line up to get passengers, rather than the company that builds the cars itself. The same playbook it…
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Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt
Most things companies call a "strategy" are not one. They are a wish list of goals, some inspiring words, and a list of everything everyone wants. Richard Rumelt, who has spent his life on this, says a real strategy is much smaller and more concrete: figure out the single hardest problem you actually face, then decide…
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Being a pessimist will make you look smart, but you'll probably be wrong
A pessimist sounds clever because they only use today's facts and assume nothing new will ever be invented. But history shows we keep inventing the thing that solves the problem — the famine that was "coming" got cancelled by synthetic fertilizer. Jason Crawford, a leader of the small "progress movement," argues that…
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David Hunter - Big Precious Metals Moves and Corrections Are Close
A 53-year market veteran named David Hunter thinks stocks and metals are about to spike hard one last time, then crash. His short version: gold runs to $7,000 and silver to $200 this summer, the stock market melts up another 30-40%, and then the whole thing collapses in a 2008-style bust that takes stocks down as much…
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India's SHOCKING Middle Class Crisis EXPLAINED! | Kushal Lodha #338
Rama Bijapurkar has spent 35 years studying how Indians actually earn, spend, and live — not how marketers wish they did. Her core argument: India keeps telling itself it's richer than it is, and the famous "huge Indian middle class" is mostly people with middle-ish incomes, not the stable, cushioned, resilient…
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Is The Bull Market Back?
Indian companies just posted a strong earnings season, but the headline indices like the Nifty are still down from their 2024 peak. The reason: the big famous names that make up the index (Reliance, HDFC Bank, TCS) have grown too large to grow fast anymore, so they're dragging the index sideways. Meanwhile the real…
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Biggest Wealth Transfer has started | 5 Macro Predictions for 2026
Akshat lays out five bets for 2026. The big one: the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates (under pressure from Trump and his new Fed chair), which usually pushes the US stock market up. He thinks the rupee keeps sliding to 105-110 per dollar, the gap between India's rich and poor widens in a way that quietly…
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India's nuclear power push: Can India really reach 100 GW by 2047? | Green Shift | M Ramesh
India wants to build a huge fleet of nuclear power plants — 100 gigawatts of them by 2047. The problem, says energy journalist M. Ramesh, is that the government's own numbers show new nuclear electricity will cost roughly 9 rupees per unit, while clean solar-plus-storage can be had for half that. Nobody wants to buy…
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Rick Rule Warns, US Debt Makes Gold Unsellable | Rick Rule
Rick Rule has been quietly buying gold every month since 2000, and he treats it as savings, not a trade. His whole argument: the US government owes far more than it can ever pay back, so the dollar will slowly lose its buying power, and gold holds its value while the dollar shrinks. He says he'd only sell his gold if…
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Why Good People Make Terrible Leaders | Machiavelli and The Prince
Machiavelli got branded a teacher of evil, but the video argues that's a caricature. His real claim is narrower and harder to dodge: the traits that make you a good person — kindness, mercy, honesty, never breaking your word — can make you a terrible ruler, because a ruler's job is to protect a whole population, not…
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Father of VR: The best AI future nobody is talking about | Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier thinks "artificial intelligence" is a bad way to describe what these systems actually are. An AI model is not a new alien mind — it's a giant pile of human work (everyone's writing, code, photos, driving) blended together. If you call it a mind, you start treating it like a god, and the people building it…
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Why Mathematics Is the Foundation of Artificial Intelligence | AI Mathematics Explained
AI looks like it understands things, but underneath it is just doing arithmetic on enormous lists of numbers. This lecture walks through the handful of maths topics that do all the actual work: turning data into numbers, measuring how similar things are, handling uncertainty, and nudging the machine toward fewer…
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The Hidden Ledger: Quantifying the Economic Value of Time
When you work from home, you skip the commute and get some control over your day. That saved time has a dollar value, but most companies never count it on a paycheck. This video pitches a method called EVPT that tries to put a number on that reclaimed time and add it to your "real" salary. The pitch is reasonable in…
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The next phase of India's fuel-blending policy | Turning waste into wealth | The Daily Brief #479
India spent a decade building factories to turn sugar and grain into ethanol, then mixing that ethanol into petrol to cut oil imports. It worked so well that the country now makes nearly twice as much ethanol as it can use, and the policy machine that caused the glut has no off switch. So the government is hunting for…
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Outer Space: The Next Economic Frontier | WSJ
A space architect named Ariel Ekla argues that the interesting money in space is not Mars — it is the thin layer of orbit a couple hundred miles above our heads. Two things changed: shipping cargo to orbit got roughly 30x cheaper in 15 years, and 20 years of biology experiments showed that some things (delicate…
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Why You Should Pretend to Be Less Intelligent than You Are
Smart people often hide how smart they are, and there are good reasons for it. Showing off your intelligence quietly insults everyone who can't keep up, and they will resent you for it. So the old philosophers advised: act a bit dumber than you are, especially around people whose help you need. And there's a deeper…
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Harold Bloom - "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human"
Harold Bloom, a famous and famously cranky Yale critic, sits down with Charlie Rose to argue one big idea: Shakespeare didn't just write great plays, he invented the way we think about being a person. Before Shakespeare, characters in stories changed because their luck or their gods changed. Shakespeare's characters…
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Nvidia just started a new chip war | The Vergecast
Nvidia, the company that makes the graphics chips everyone wants for AI and gaming, just announced it's going to make the main brain of regular laptops too — not just the graphics part. The new chip is called the RTX Spark, and basically every major laptop maker (Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, Microsoft) has lined up to…
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Is India's Largest Office REIT Worth Your Money? | Blackstone-Backed KRT REIT IPO Explained
Blackstone and a Mumbai developer called Sattva packaged 29 of their best office buildings — places like One BKC in Mumbai and tech campuses in Bengaluru and Hyderabad — into a single tradable thing called Knowledge Realty Trust (KRT). You buy a unit on the stock exchange, and rent collected from tenants like Amazon…
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The real reason some people adapt faster than others | George Bonanno
After studying how people survive the worst things life throws at them, psychologist George Bonanno found that most people recover just fine — resilience is the norm, not the exception. But there is no secret set of "resilient person" traits, because no coping strategy works every time. What actually separates fast…
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The Simple Path to Wealth (With J.L. Collins)
A guy named J.L. Collins spent decades picking stocks, lost to the market anyway, and finally gave up and just bought everything. He did better. His whole philosophy fits in one sentence: avoid debt, spend less than you earn, and use the leftover to buy your freedom. Put the leftover in one cheap fund that owns the…
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₹2.5 Lakh Crore Industry Nobody Talks About: REITs, 14% Returns | Paisa Vaisa | Anupam Gupta
A REIT is a basket of office buildings, chopped into units you can buy for about 500 rupees and sell on the stock exchange any morning you want cash. The rent those buildings collect gets passed back to you in three different flavors — dividend, interest, and a "return of your own money" — and each flavor is taxed…
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Yuval Noah Harari on Donald Trump's Core Delusion | The Ezra Klein Show
There's a worldview, voiced by Trump's people, that says the only real thing in the world is power — the strong take what they want, the weak surrender, and everything else is naive niceties. Harari, a historian, says that can't be the whole story: if brute force were all that mattered, humans would still be tiny…
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Nixon Shock (Part I): Why Richard Nixon torpedoed the global monetary system | The Story of Money
After World War II, the world ran on a simple promise: every other country pinned its currency to the US dollar, and the US promised to swap dollars for gold at a fixed price. It worked because America held most of the world's gold and everyone trusted it. Over twenty-five years, that trust eroded — too many dollars…
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Space, Nuclear Weapons, and U.S.-Russia Relations After the Cold War
In the 1990s, after the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States and Russia did something that sounds impossible today: they worked together closely, all the way from presidents down to engineers, to pull loose nuclear weapons out of harm's way and build a space station together. Rose Gottemoeller, who was in those…
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Trump Tariffs: China, UK, Europe Among US Trade Partners Targeted | Daybreak Europe 06/03/2026
Trump is trying to rebuild his tariffs after the Supreme Court struck down the old version, this time using "forced labor" allegations as the legal hook to slap at least 10% on most major trading partners. Markets shrugged — they've watched this administration change its mind too many times to take any tariff threat…
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How To Master Microcap Investing | Pawan Bharaddia On Sonia Shenoy Podcast
Pawan Bharaddia runs a portfolio service that buys tiny Indian companies and holds them for years. His pitch: the smallest stocks have actually compounded faster than the big ones over 20 years, and the recent crash in small-caps is a feature, not a bug — that is when you buy. His whole method comes down to ignoring…
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Did Gajendra Kothari stop his SIP in 2026? | The 99% Club
Most people lose money in markets not because they pick the wrong fund, but because they behave badly — they panic when prices fall, they chase whatever just went up, and they check their portfolio too often. Gajendra Kothari, a fund advisor with 22 years in the business, argues that 90% of your returns come from…
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What They Don't Tell You About Stock Market Volatility | Vishal Khandelwal on Sonia Shenoy Podcast
Vishal Khandelwal runs Safal Niveshak, a financial-literacy platform, and has spent 23 years in the Indian stock market. His core message: most people lose money not because they pick bad investments, but because they can't sit still. He separates "risk" (things you can put odds on, like rain) from "uncertainty"…
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Why You Must Acquire Power at All Costs | Harvard's Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli
Harvey Mansfield, who spent his whole career on Machiavelli, argues that this 16th-century Italian writer is not just a sly advisor to tyrants but the secret architect of the entire modern world. Machiavelli's big move was to throw out the old question "what is good?" and replace it with "what works?" — and from that…
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We Uncovered a Hidden Wealth Transfer in the SpaceX IPO. You're Holding the Bag.
SpaceX is about to go public at a price most professional investors think is absurd — over fifty times its revenue, when Facebook went public at ten. To get away with charging that price, the video argues, the deal is being engineered so that ordinary people end up buying the stock automatically, through the index…
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FULL INTERVIEW: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon on Shifting World Order, Ukraine, Iran and Trade
Jamie Dimon, the boss of America's biggest bank, sat on stage and gave his read on the world. His big worry is not the stock market — it's geopolitics: the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the rearming of the world, and the messy rewiring of global trade. On the home front he thinks inflation is stickier than most…
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Stanford MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle | Spring 2026 | Enterprise Internal Knowledge
A big general AI model is like a brilliant new hire who knows everything on the internet but nothing about your company. This lecture's guest, Yash Patel — a 2025 Stanford grad who went to OpenAI and then started a company called Applied Compute — explains how you take that genius and teach it your specific business.…
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Space, time and Shakespeare - Paul Glendinning
A mathematician decided the best way to talk about how ordinary people once thought about numbers, time, and space was to read Shakespeare. The plays are full of little maths gadgets — almanacs that predicted the moon, mirrors that had just become cheap, the new pocket watch — and the people in them fumble with these…
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9 Out of 10 Fund Managers Are Wrong. Here's the Math No One Shows You. | Harsh Goela
A celebrated Indian fund manager, Saurabh Mukherjea of Marcellus, grew his firm to over Rs 7,000 crore on the strength of a great early track record. Then his flagship strategy fell about 9 percentage points behind the Nifty index over five years, and roughly 80% of the money walked out the door. The video argues this…
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Walking Is the Only Exercise Your Body Was Actually Designed For
Your body is built from the ground up to walk long distances — arched feet that act like springs, tendons that recycle energy, a wide pelvis, even two million sweat glands so you can keep moving in the heat while other animals have to stop and cool down. Modern life took away the daily 6-mile walk every part of you…
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Inference, Diffusion, World Models, and More | YC Paper Club
Five researchers stand up at a Y Combinator event and each explains one recent AI paper. The thread running through all of them is the same: machines have always been bottlenecked by two scarce things — how fast they can think, and how much data they need to learn. Each paper attacks one bottleneck with a clever…
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ALERT: India's 1,000 km Quantum Communication Network Is Now Live - The Post-AI Security Era Begins
The way we keep secrets online — banking, messages, military traffic — relies on a math puzzle so hard that today's computers can't solve it. A future quantum computer could solve it in an afternoon, which means anyone recording your encrypted data now could unlock it later. An Indian company, QNu Labs, says it has…
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How I Earn Passive Income Without Chasing Stocks | Financially Free at 37
A chartered accountant and former investment banker (Sandeep) walked away from work in his late thirties and now lives off the interest from a portfolio that's almost entirely in debt — bonds, debt mutual funds, REITs — not stocks. His core claim is contrarian: stocks didn't make him free, and they won't make you free…
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Pfizer CEO: How AI Will Reshape the Future of Medicine | Podcast | In Good Company
Pfizer's CEO Albert Bourla sat down with the head of Norway's giant sovereign wealth fund. He says the COVID windfall ($56bn in 2022 revenue, now $6bn) got poured into roughly $80bn of acquisitions, mostly betting on a new kind of cancer drug. The two things keeping him up at night are AI and China — AI because it…
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Thinking too logically can actually hold you back | Dan Shipper
For 2,000 years the West has believed you only truly know something if you can spell it out in clear rules and definitions. That belief built physics, computers, and vaccines, but it quietly taught us to distrust our gut. Dan Shipper argues that intuition, the stuff you can't put into words, is actually the foundation…
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Stanford CME296 Diffusion & Large Vision Models | Spring 2026 | Lecture 8 - Trending Topics
This is the final lecture of a Stanford course on how AI generates images. The first half is a fast recap of the whole semester: how a machine learns to turn random static into a picture you asked for, step by step. The second half asks "now what else can we do with this trick?" — and the answer is videos, photo…
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Missing Portfolio Centrepiece? Allocate to Debt Mutual Funds | HSBC MF CIO Explains Fixed Income
Indian investors used to park their "safe money" in fixed deposits and debt mutual funds. Then a 2023 tax change made debt funds taxed at your full income slab — up to 40% — which gutted their appeal, so people shoved that money into equity and hybrid funds instead. The HSBC CIO argues this left a hole in most…
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Power Finance Corporation (PFC) Explained | India Ki Power Funding Giant
PFC is a government-owned lender that exists for one job: financing power and power-adjacent projects in India. Solar farms, transmission lines, hydro plants, EV charging, smart meters — if it touches electricity infrastructure, PFC will lend against it. Its pitch versus a normal bank is longer repayment timelines (15…
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VALUExBRK 2026 | Bill Ackman, Mohnish Pabrai, Tom Gayner, Chris Bloomstran & More
This is the annual value-investing conference Guy Spier throws in Omaha the day before the Berkshire Hathaway meeting. A parade of famous fund managers and business people each gets fifteen minutes on stage, then takes questions. The two threads running through the whole day: how do you build something that compounds…
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India's Obsession With Decolonization Is a Lie | Devdutt Pattanaik EXPOSED the Debate
Mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik sits down with a UPSC history teacher and basically says the whole "decolonize India" project is a fantasy. His core move is splitting everything the British brought into two buckets: tools (railways, courts, the stock market, the idea of a "border") and tales (the stories rulers tell to…
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$250 Billion in Assets. Here's What They're Buying Now. First Eagle Global Value
Two fund managers from First Eagle — a 160-year-old firm running $250 billion — explain how they pick stocks. The short version: buy good businesses that are genuinely hard to copy, only when they're on sale by at least 30%, hold them for a decade, spread bets across 100-plus names, and keep some gold around as a fire…
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Strategy's Bitcoin Dilemma: Who Gets Hurt First?
Michael Saylor's company (now called Strategy) owns more Bitcoin than anyone on earth, bought mostly with other people's money. To raise that money he sold a special kind of stock that pays a fat fixed dividend — and those dividends now cost him $1.7 billion in cash every year, from a company that earns nothing. To…
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Everything You Need to Know About Global Investing | Q&A with Neil Borate
An Indian investor wants to put money abroad — mostly to escape a market that's only 3% of the world and a rupee that keeps sliding. Neil Borate walks through the plumbing: which routes exist, which ones quietly overcharge you, and where the tax man takes a bigger or smaller bite. His bottom line is blunt — Gift City…
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Lessons From Working in PE, Hedge Funds, AND VC
A guy named Kevin Jen worked at almost every kind of money job there is — investment banking at Goldman, buyouts at Apollo, the giant SoftBank Vision Fund, a hedge fund at Soros — and then quit it all to start his own venture capital firm. This interview is him explaining what each of those jobs actually feels like…
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India’s Nordic Connection
India and the five Nordic countries — Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Denmark — just held their third summit in Oslo, and Modi became the first Indian PM to visit Norway in 43 years. The Norwegian ambassador to India explains why a country of 6 million people is suddenly courting the world's most populous nation:…
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Reliance's eight perfect minutes and a sixteen year old SEBI case | The Daily Brief #478
In 2007, Reliance Industries quietly bet that its own subsidiary's shares would fall, then sold a huge pile of those shares in the final eight minutes of trading, making about 513 crore on the bet. SEBI called it fraud and clawed back the money; sixteen years later the Supreme Court said it broke a rule but didn't…
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Sundar Pichai on A.I. Backlash, the Future of Work and Google's Next Era
Google's CEO sits down for a friendly grilling about where Google stands in the AI race. His honest admission: Google is at the leading edge on most things, but a step behind on AI that writes code. He thinks the public's fear of AI is understandable and even healthy, jobs will change rather than vanish, and the…
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After 40, This Matters More Than Exercise (Doctor Explains)
If you only have time for one kind of exercise, a doctor's pick is walking — not the gym, not high-intensity sweat sessions. Walking is the one form of movement your body expects every single day, so it's easy to turn into a daily habit, and once that habit sticks, the harder stuff tends to follow. Aim for at least…
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Sankaran Naren's Top Long-Term Investing SECRETS Revealed | Sonia Shenoy Podcast
Sankaran Naren has run money for three decades and now oversees about 11 lakh crore at ICICI Prudential. His whole method boils down to one habit: buy what everyone hates, sell what everyone loves, and judge it at the level of asset classes rather than individual stocks. He thinks the cleanest signal is plain returns…
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How Mutual Fund Managers find multibaggers? Ft. Aditya Khemani
A veteran fund manager explains that nobody picks a 10x stock on purpose — you only know it was a multibagger in hindsight. The real game is boring: find a decent business run by a still-hungry owner that can compound earnings ~15-25% a year, hold it, and let arithmetic do the work. He also argues that small and mid…
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Find the Best Flexi Cap Fund for Your Portfolio
Flexi cap funds are mutual funds that can freely buy big, medium, or small companies in any mix they want. That freedom means two funds in the same category can behave like total opposites — one acts like a safe blue-chip fund, another like a racy small-cap gambler. ET Money runs all 40 Indian flexi cap funds through…
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What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED
A top Supreme Court lawyer was hired to kill a president's four-trillion-dollar tariff scheme, something no lawyer had managed in 237 years. To prepare, he leaned on four "teachers": a mindset coach, an improv coach, a meditation coach, and a custom AI he'd trained on 25 years of every justice's words. The AI…
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From Bottom to Best: The Incredible Turnaround of 3 Invesco Funds l Power Talks Ep 12
A fund manager named Aditya Khemani took over three Invesco mutual funds in late 2023, when they were mediocre and held about ₹9,000 crore. Two years later they are top performers and hold ₹27,000 crore. His explanation is almost boring: build a balanced portfolio, never let one stock get too big, pick a handful of…
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Are Small & Mid Caps Too Expensive? Aditya Khemani Explains
A fund manager who runs Invesco's mid- and small-cap funds in India gets asked the obvious question: with prices this high, isn't everything overpriced? His answer is that "expensive" only means something next to growth. He's fine paying 20% over fair value for a company that can grow profits 20% a year for a decade —…
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From 1 Scooter to 60+ SKUs: Inside Ather's Long Game | Tarun Mehta | Young Turks Reloaded | N18V
Two engineering students set out to build an energy company, ended up building an electric scooter almost by accident, and spent four years engineering one product before selling a single unit. That patience is the whole story: Ather refuses to do anything a rival could copy easily, builds its own software and…
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Arvind Krishna: IBM's Reinvention, AI Bets and Quantum | Podcast | In Good Company
IBM was a company everyone trusted but assumed was a relic. Its CEO, Arvind Krishna, spent six years cutting the slow-growing parts away and betting on software, cloud, and artificial intelligence — and the company is now growing again. In this interview he explains why he thinks the AI building boom is partly…
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If dropping 0.1 grams of antimatter destroys a city, then why are we making it?
When the universe began, it should have made equal amounts of "stuff" and "anti-stuff," which then would have wiped each other out completely, leaving nothing but light. But here we are. For every billion bits of anti-stuff there was one extra bit of normal stuff that survived, and everything you see is made of those…
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Why REITs Are Gaining Popularity Among Indian Investors in 2026
A REIT lets you own a slice of a giant office building or mall for the price of one share — about 126 rupees in the case of the guest's own trust — instead of needing a crore in cash and a lifetime of tenant headaches. It collects rent, hands at least 90% of the leftover cash back to investors every quarter, and the…
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He Quantified 200 Years of Disruption | Kai Wu on Separating Software Survivors from Value Traps
Cheap-looking stocks are sometimes cheap for a good reason: their business is quietly dying. Kai Wu fed two centuries of US patent records into a machine and built a system that spots, in real time, which industries are about to get run over by new technology. The punchline: classic "buy cheap stocks" investing has…
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US Green Card Shock For Indians Waiting 20 Years | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
The US quietly changed a 50-year-old habit. For decades, an Indian worker waiting for a green card could finish the paperwork from inside the country. Now the government says that was only ever a "courtesy," and you may have to fly back to India to apply, with no guarantee you get back in. The people most hurt are…
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India Markets Jump After Nvidia CEO's Bold AI Software Call | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
Indian stocks started the day down, then flipped green after Nvidia's CEO said AI will grow the software business, not kill it. That sent IT stocks like TCS and Infosys up more than 5%. The same episode also covers a quieter worry — IBM's CEO thinks the world is building roughly twice as many AI data centers as the…
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The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper
Dan Shipper runs a small, very AI-heavy company. His big claim: even as the AI gets better at doing work, humans end up with more work, not less, because someone always has to babysit the machine. He thinks the people who win the next year are product managers and designers who learn to build things themselves, and he…
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Knowing What Your Customers Want, All the Time: Listen Labs' Alfred Wahlforss
Listen Labs built an AI that interviews real people on video, hundreds at a time, to find out what customers actually want. Instead of a human researcher running one focus group a week, the AI runs thousands of conversations in parallel, watches faces for genuine reactions, and lets you click any conclusion to see the…
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Why India's Electrostate Push Is Bigger Than You Think | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
India just hit a record for electricity demand at the exact moment it was short on power. Pratik Agarwal, who runs three electricity businesses (a grid company, a renewables company, and a cable company), argues this is a turning point: India should become an "electrostate," meaning more than half its energy comes…
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Inside The Mind Of A True Emerging Markets Investor | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
This is a daily Indian markets podcast that opens with an obituary for Mark Mobius, the famous emerging-markets investor who died in April 2026. The host argues there used to be two kinds of fund managers: adventurers who flew into unmapped markets and found hidden gold, and technicians who just optimized what was…
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The Rise of Living Wills in India Explained | Kudrat Wadhwa | The Signal Brief | The Core
A living will is a document that records what medical treatment you want, or don't want, if you ever get so sick you can't speak for yourself. India only made these legal in 2018, and the paperwork was so painful that almost nobody bothered. In 2023 the Supreme Court cut the red tape, and now a small but growing…
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From Fraud to Fortune: The CG Power Revival Story | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
CG Power, the old Crompton Greaves, was a profitable 75-year-old maker of motors and transformers until its previous owners quietly siphoned out about 4,000 crore over three years and left it for dead. Banks declared it a fraud account, no one would lend it a rupee, and its factories went silent right as COVID hit.…
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Can India Unlock 34,000 Tonnes Of Idle Gold? | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
Indian households and temples are sitting on somewhere between 25,000 and 34,000 tonnes of gold that just sits in lockers doing nothing. A jeweller from Lucknow has built a platform where you hand over your gold, a jeweller borrows it for a year to make ornaments, and you get it back with a little extra gold added on…
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Navigating Market Risk 2026: Why Fund Managers Are Bullish | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
Two veteran Indian fund managers sit on a stage in mid-2026 with the market down and everyone gloomy, and they argue the gloom is overdone. Oil has spiked, the rupee is weak, foreigners are selling — but they think oil will crash back, India's earnings will catch up, and the moment everyone hates stocks is exactly the…
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The ASML Replacement Nobody Saw Coming
The most advanced computer chips are "printed" using light, and the smaller the chips get, the smaller the wavelength of light you need. Today that light is made by blasting tiny droplets of molten tin with a giant laser, fifty thousand times a second — a method so finicky that only one company, ASML, has mastered it.…
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How to Build a 10-Year SIP Portfolio for Any Market | Investors' Hangout
If you put a fixed amount into Indian stock-market mutual funds every month for ten years, history says you come out ahead — every ten-year stretch in the Sensex's 40-year life has made money, even through crashes and crises. The trick isn't picking clever funds; it's keeping it simple (one to three funds, maximum)…
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Stop over-diversifying! The Perfect 5-Mutual Fund Portfolio Strategy
A SEBI-registered adviser argues that most people own too many mutual funds. Five is the ceiling; three is plenty. Split your portfolio into a "core" that you never touch (long-term SIPs in mid- and small-cap funds) and a "satellite" sleeve where you make sector bets that you revisit every six months. He names the…
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The changing shape of energy security | India lacks good poverty statistics | The Daily Brief #476
Two stories. First: the old idea of "energy security" meant keeping oil flowing. The new idea is to need no fuel at all by going electric, because you can't be blockaded out of sunshine. But the catch is that the panels, batteries, and money needed to go electric are even more concentrated in a few hands (mostly China…
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How I pick my Mutual Fund investments | Best list for 2026
A stock-picking YouTuber explains why most retail investors should keep the bulk of their money in mutual funds rather than picking stocks themselves — not because mutual funds are smarter, but because they hide the day-to-day price swings that make people panic-sell at the bottom. He then walks through how he judges…
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Kenneth Andrade: The Mid-Cap Mogul | Old Bridge Capital | MF Chronicles
Kenneth Andrade is one of India's best-known midcap fund managers — a guy who started as a journalist in the 1990s, cutting out newspaper clippings about companies and filing them by industry, and turned that habit of hoarding data into a career picking small companies before anyone cared. His whole method boils down…
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Amisha Vora Reveals Her Bulletproof Portfolio | The BroadView with Nikunj Dalmia
Amisha Vora, who chairs the brokerage Prabhudas Lilladher and has watched Indian markets for 35 years, thinks the easy money era is over. For the last 20 months the market has gone nowhere, and now inflation and a weakening rupee are the two big worries. Her response is a "bulletproof" portfolio built around five…
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FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #496
Almost every video you watch online — YouTube, Netflix, a clip on your phone — passes through a piece of free software called FFmpeg, and its sibling, the VLC media player (the one with the orange traffic cone). Both are built by a tiny handful of unpaid volunteers, yet they run on billions of devices. This is a…
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Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE - Don Lincoln | Lex Fridman Podcast #497
A particle physicist who spent decades smashing protons together at Fermilab walks through the biggest open questions in physics. The whole history of physics, he says, is a story of realizing that things we thought were separate — falling apples and orbiting moons, electricity and magnetism, space and time — are…
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20 Years of Mutual Fund knowledge in 91 mins | The 99% Club | Kirtan Shah
A veteran fund manager (Kirtan Shah, in markets since 2007) lays out a complete do-it-yourself blueprint for investing in Indian mutual funds. The core rule: put roughly 80% of your money in stocks and 20% in safer stuff (bonds and gold), regardless of whether you call yourself aggressive or cautious. He explains how…
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The Cost Of UPSC Prep - UPSC Killed My Youth, Wasted Years & Life After UPSC | Ft. Amit Kilhor
India's most prestigious government-job exam, the UPSC civil services test, just held its 2026 first-round paper, and a teacher who himself cleared the early rounds six times says it has quietly broken. The questions, he argues, no longer connect to any syllabus or any book a student could have studied — so the people…
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Why Most News Isn't Worth Your Attention | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer reads the world for a living. In this conversation he explains how he separates news that matters from news that is just noise. His core trick: most headlines won't change how the world is actually run, so he ignores them and focuses on the handful of things that will. He also shares how he gets world…
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Williamson & Van der Mark electron model | Are electrons made of light?
Physics usually treats the electron as a dot with no size and no insides — yet that dot somehow carries charge, spin, and a tiny magnetism, which is awkward, because a dot has nowhere to put any of that. This video walks through a 1997 paper that asks a wilder question: what if an electron is just a loop of light,…
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The Great Global Transformation: The U.S., China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order
Economist Branko Milanovic launches his new book and argues that the era of open-borders, free-trade globalization is quietly ending. Here is his twist: it is dying because it worked. Letting trade and money flow freely lifted Asia (especially China) so high that it scared the rich countries, who are now slamming the…
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Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
Marc Rowan runs Apollo, a $1-trillion money manager most people still mislabel as a private equity shop. His actual argument: the stock market has become a bet on ten companies, the bond market is about to become a bet on five banks plus five tech giants, and the only place left to get real diversification is in…
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Autonomous Warfare Has Arrived | African Lion 2026 Exclusive with Gen. Anderson & Lt. Gasparri
VICE went to a big multi-country military exercise in the Moroccan desert and found the future of war being duct-taped together in a tent. Young soldiers are building their own attack drones, flying them into targets, and driving robot cars that steer themselves without GPS. The two men interviewed — a junior officer…
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The Test-Cricket Investing of PPFAS | Neil Parikh & Rajeev Thakker | MF Chronicles | Vikaas M Sachdeva
PPFAS is the fund house that grew slowly and on purpose. The two men running it — Neil Parikh (the CEO) and Rajeev Thakker (the man who picks the stocks) — explain how they built one of India's most respected mutual funds by doing boring things consistently for a decade and refusing to chase whatever was hot. Their…
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Why Gold Goes Up | Michael Howell
Michael Howell runs a research shop that tracks how much money is sloshing through the world's financial plumbing. His claim: gold goes up not because shopkeepers raise prices, but because governments quietly print money to keep a debt-soaked system from collapsing. The US Treasury and Fed are now spending hundreds of…
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This Is Probably Fine!
Governments everywhere borrowed enormous amounts of money, and now lenders want to be paid more to keep holding that debt. Long-term interest rates have climbed to levels not seen in decades, which makes mortgages, company loans, and government budgets more expensive all at once. The cruel twist is that debts are now…
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The price you pay for being smart. | It's Been a Minute
A Cambridge academic posted a photo of her finished PhD thesis — about how writers use smell to signal social prejudice — and the internet tore her apart. The post got 126 million views, most of them hostile. The host of this NPR show uses that pile-on as a doorway into a bigger pattern: a growing distrust of educated…
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India’s ₹1.5 Lakh Crore DARPA Moment For Deep Tech | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
India has set up a single big government body to pump money into hard science and frontier technology — roughly ₹1.5 lakh crore worth. It does two different things: hands out grants to universities and labs (no strings, no payback) and makes investments in private companies (loans that wait patiently for returns). The…
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Capitalmind Launches Flexi Cap Fund: How Quantitative Investing Can Help You Reach Your Goals
Capitalmind is launching its first mutual fund, a flexi cap that picks stocks by the numbers rather than by gut feeling. Instead of studying individual companies one by one, it scores every stock on traits like price trend, cheapness, and quality, then buys the ones that rank highest — mostly on "momentum," meaning…
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Effective Altruism: Understanding the Importance of How Things Mean
There is a famous thought experiment: you see a child drowning in a fountain, you'd ruin your nice shoes to save them, so why not skip the shoes and send the money to save children far away? It sounds airtight. Wes Cecil's point is that it only sounds airtight because of three unspoken assumptions it quietly relies on…
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Why Most People Will Miss India's Biggest Bull Run in History | ft. Ramesh Damani
Ramesh Damani, a veteran Indian investor, argues that India is in the early innings of a multi-decade boom because 1.4 billion people are climbing into the middle class. His method is simple to say and hard to do: pick a theme the future will reward, ignore how expensive a stock looks today, wait patiently for the…
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The Network as a Program with Nate Foster
For decades, building a computer network meant buying a pile of boxes called routers, wiring them together, and then hiring people to log into each box one at a time and hand-tune its settings until traffic flowed the way you wanted. It worked, but it was slow, fragile, and nobody could really predict what the whole…
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Rajeev Thakkar explains why FIIs are really leaving India | 1 Finance Magazine
Rajeev Thakkar runs India's largest flexi-cap fund (PPFAS, ~₹1.3 lakh crore) and is sitting on roughly 20% cash while everyone asks why he isn't buying the 10% dip. His answer: the dip was small, valuations weren't cheap to begin with, and cash that earns 7% in a flat market hasn't actually cost his investors…
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SIF vs Mutual Funds vs PMS | Sankaran Naren Explains the Difference
SEBI invented a new kind of fund called a SIF — Specialized Investment Fund. It sits between a mutual fund (anyone can buy, very regulated) and a PMS (rich-people product, fewer rules), with a minimum ticket of 10 lakh. The pitch: regular equity funds shine when markets are roaring, but they're miserable when markets…
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Why Every Indian Needs a HUF Account (Hindu Undivided Family)
A Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) is a separate taxpayer the Income Tax Act lets a Hindu family create — its own PAN, its own bank account, its own basic exemption slab. The appeal is simple: income shifted into the HUF gets taxed in a fresh pair of hands instead of stacking on top of yours. The catch is that you cannot…
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The Long Game Ep 01 | BlackRock's Rick Rieder: Inside the Mind of a $3.3 Trillion Investor
Rick Rieder runs one of the biggest pools of bond money on the planet for BlackRock. The interview is less a stock tip and more a tour of how a four-decade trader actually thinks: you don't get paid for being right, you get paid for being right when the market agrees with you, which can be a two-year wait. He runs…
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Rationality and Human Behavior – Dr. Roy | Museum of the Future: Lessons from the Past
Economists in the 1800s decided humans are always rational and always selfish, mostly because they couldn't be bothered to read any psychology. A century later, psychologists looked at actual brains and found the opposite: people who lose their emotions to brain damage don't become hyper-logical geniuses, they become…
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We Tested "Buy the Dip" for 25 Years. Here's the Result.
Zerodha ran 25 years of Nifty data to settle an old argument: is it smarter to invest a fixed amount every month (a boring SIP), or to hoard cash and pounce when the market dips? They gave the dip-buyer a cheat code — perfect hindsight, so it always bought at the exact bottom. The dip-buyer still barely won: about 2.6…
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Once You Understand Investing, You Understand Money
Sharran Srivatsaa argues that good investing isn't picking winners — it's running every decision through the same checklist so your gut never gets a vote. He lays out five components: let time compound, watch what taxes and fees quietly eat, know where you sit when a deal blows up, vet people before numbers, and score…
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Should Nirmala Sitharaman be removed as Finance Minister?
Former chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian thinks the Indian economy is in a near-crisis: the rupee is sliding, energy import bills have doubled after a war, and private companies have stopped investing the way they used to. He argues the government has actually done plenty of reform on paper, but its "deeper…
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Landscape Architecture is the Mother of All Arts | Ar Aniket Bhagwat
Aniket Bhagwat is India's most prominent landscape architect, son of the man often called the country's first. Across six hours he makes one argument from a hundred angles: a painter draws a line on paper, an architect builds a wall that stays put, but a landscape architect plants a tree and then loses control of it —…
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Max Tegmark Says Physics Just Swallowed AI
Physics keeps eating subjects that people once swore weren't physics: electricity, atoms, the early universe. MIT's Max Tegmark argues AI is the latest meal, and consciousness is on the menu next. His sharpest move is separating two things we usually mash together: intelligence (getting tasks done) and consciousness…
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The FBI and Socrates -- the Same 17 Sentences
Chase Hughes lays out 17 sentence structures that, he claims, make another person talk themselves into your conclusion. The trick is that you never state your own position. You just build a question or observation with only one comfortable exit, and the other person walks through it thinking it was their idea. The…
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Every Major War Begins Under False Pretenses & the Central Banks Are Behind It. Economist Explains.
The economist Richard Werner (author of Princes of the Yen, the man who coined "quantitative easing") sits with Tucker Carlson and argues one big thing: every major war is engineered by a small, hidden elite, and the lever they pull is money. Wars start with false flags, get sold with propaganda, and end with a…
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Private Equity and the Future of American Capitalism
Megan Greenwell ran a sports blog that a private equity firm bought and gutted in three months. That sent her down a rabbit hole, and the result is a book about four people whose hospital, store, apartment, and newspaper got taken over by PE. Her core argument is narrow and sharp: the problem isn't that PE is evil,…
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The Books That Permanently Altered How I See Reality
Some books leave a residue. You finish them and the room looks slightly off, like the furniture got rearranged while you weren't looking. Hana Clio walks through three books that did this to her permanently: Murakami's Dance Dance Dance (which made ordinary hotels and parking lots feel like portals), Italo Svevo's…
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How Things Fell Apart for Germany's Nixdorf Computer
A West German student named Heinz Nixdorf started a computer company in 1952 by riding a motorcycle around the country selling machines nobody had asked for. He found a gap that IBM ignored: small and medium businesses that needed something between a hand-cranked bookkeeping machine and a room-sized mainframe. He…
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Trump's America - Is US democracy in danger? | DW Documentary
A Turkish journalist who fled Erdoğan's Turkey returns to the question that ruined her own life — when does a democracy quietly stop being one — and goes looking for the answer in the United States. She follows two American professors who have left or are leaving the country, both of whom study fascism for a living…
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The Joys and Pitfalls of Personal Values
This is the closing lecture of Cecil's series on values, and it answers the practical question the rest of the series set up: once you've decided what you actually care about, how do you start living by it? His answer is mostly the opposite of what you'd expect. Don't add things — subtract them. Don't hurry — slow…
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Why Everything You Believe About Money Is Built on a Lie w/ Tom Bilyeu
The title is bait. The actual guest is Robert Breedlove, a Bitcoin maximalist, being interviewed by Tom Bilyeu (who plays the eager convert). The thesis: money is whatever the market spontaneously settles on as the most tradeable good, and for 5,000 years that was gold because its supply was the hardest to inflate.…
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The Fake Wealth Dream Indians Were Sold Is Finally Cracking - Ravi Sinha
Real estate analyst Ravi Sinha argues that the two places Indians have been parking their money — Dubai property and Indian property — are both traps. Dubai's market is sliding into a 2008-style crash, accelerated by war wrecking its "safe haven" pitch. Indian property is the only market on earth more overvalued than…
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Why the US suddenly needs India more than ever | DW News
Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, is on a four-day trip to India to patch up a relationship that fell apart over 2025. The damage: 50% tariffs, a public fight over India buying Russian oil, and Trump repeatedly claiming he personally stopped the India-Pakistan war (India says he did no such thing). Washington…
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The Trust Diagnosis | Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History
Gladwell's friend Dan spends his whole career as the invisible fixer rich people call when their lives are falling apart. Then Dan gets a cancer diagnosis everyone treats as routine, and it turns out to be the opposite of routine. He has to figure out who to trust when 15 doctors say one thing and 2 say another. His…
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The end of the American Empire | It's Been a Minute
There's a meme about how often men think about the Roman Empire. The host's pitch: nobody thinks enough about the American one. Historian Daniel Immerwahr argues the United States has always been an empire in the plain dictionary sense — a country with different rules for different places, holding colonies and 750-odd…
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DeepMind's Insane AI Breakthroughs With CEO Demis Hassabis
Károly Zsolnai-Fehér (the Two Minute Papers guy) sits down with Demis Hassabis, the Nobel-winning CEO of Google DeepMind, for a giddy fan-interview. The headline ideas: AlphaFold was not a one-off but the template for how AI will crack medicine, with DeepMind now building a dozen more AlphaFold-grade models to cover…
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Why Everyone Is Wrong About Clean Energy
An Imperial College engineering professor argues that the clean energy transition is happening far faster than almost anyone realises — and that the gap between perception and reality is being kept open on purpose. Renewables already supply ~34% of global electricity, more than half of new cars sold in China are…
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BJP Ascendant at Home, Tested Abroad
The Grand Tamasha crew take stock of a strange split-screen. At home, the BJP is winning places it has never won before — West Bengal, of all states — and the opposition India bloc has basically dissolved back into bickering individual parties. Abroad, India is getting hit from every side at once: an Iran war spiking…
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Why India's geopolitical vision has shifted away from the US | DW News
After a rough year, India and the US are trying to patch things up over a new trade deal. The wreckage: Trump slapped 50% tariffs on India, hardened visa rules, claimed credit for ending the India-Pakistan conflict, and helped push up energy prices. India's former ambassador to Washington explains why none of it sat…
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What awaits India? Economist Ajit Ranade interview
The rupee is sliding, fuel and gold are pricier, and the PM is asking people to skip destination weddings. Economist Ajit Ranade says the real problem isn't any of those things directly — it's a shortage of dollars. India imports far more than it earns, and the foreign investment that used to plug that gap has dried…
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Rethinking India's Growth Story
India's official GDP numbers may be wrong in both directions. The new paper by Abhishek Anand, Arvind Subramanian and Josh Felman argues growth was underestimated by about 1.5 points in 2005-11 and overestimated by 1.5-2 points in 2012-23. If they're right, the recent "fastest-growing major economy" run was really…
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I Spent 10 Days in China — It Changed How I See Wealth | Naval Ravikant
A monologue (narrated as Naval Ravikant) about ten days spent in China and the one thing it recalibrated: time horizons. The argument is that China builds for 30 years out as routine policy, while the West builds for the next election. Compound that gap over decades and you get genuinely different physical realities —…
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Cockroach Janata Party: Meme Revolution or Political Earthquake?
A 30-year-old PR student in Boston spun up a fake political party as a joke. He called it the Cockroach Janata Party, posted a short manifesto online, and within a week it had 20 million Instagram followers. The joke landed because the Chief Justice of India had just called unemployed youth "cockroaches" in court, and…
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Sanskrit and Indian Civilization
Wes Cecil tries to compress 5,500 years of Sanskrit and Indian civilization into one hour, with an apology for pronunciation. His big claim: Sanskrit is one of the strangest languages in history — never quite a street language, frozen in grammar since Panini in 400 BC, and spread across half the world not by armies…
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Chip design from the bottom up – Reiner Pope
Reiner Pope (CEO of MatX) takes Dwarkesh through how an AI chip is actually built, starting from the smallest possible Lego brick — a single logic gate — and working all the way up to a TPU. The big lesson is that almost everything interesting in chip design is a fight between doing the math and moving the numbers…
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Stanford MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle | Spring 2026 | Economics of Generative AI
A Stanford lecture on where the money in AI actually lives. Right now the picture is upside-down compared to past tech cycles — chip makers like Nvidia are eating roughly three-quarters of the profit, while the apps people use barely make money. The instructor — who runs Altimeter, an investment firm — argues this…
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Surjit Bhalla Explains What Is Really Wrong With India Economy | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
Surjit Bhalla argues the rupee falling to 96 is a symptom, not the disease. The disease is that foreign direct investment has collapsed, and it collapsed for reasons that were baked in years before the current oil shock. India in 2015 quietly told foreign investors they had to lock themselves in for five years and…
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022 - Andreas Clenow - A Most Private Discussion on Building Long Term Wealth through Trading
A long-running quant trader walks through how he thinks about three different audiences for the same job — running a hedge fund, running a family office, and now running a phone app for people with ten dollars to invest. The thread that ties it all together is that no single strategy is a finished product. Trend…
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DeepSeek's New AI Is A Game Changer
DeepSeek released a new open vision model that, instead of describing images in long paragraphs, learns to point at things while it thinks. Pointing is cheaper and more accurate than describing, so the model uses about 90% fewer visual tokens than the big paid models and still matches or beats them on benchmarks. The…
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Reading the Gita Book Three
In Book Two, Krishna told Arjuna that nothing can really be killed, so killing his cousins shouldn't bother him. Arjuna's response in Book Three is the obvious one: then why act at all? Krishna's reply, which becomes the spine of the whole episode, is that action beats inaction — but only a specific kind of action. Do…
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Reading the Bhagavad Gita Book 4
Krishna tells Arjuna he has lived many lives, that he keeps returning to set things right, and that there is no single road to God — every honest path counts. Then he reframes the old idea of sacrifice: instead of killing a goat at an altar, you make your daily work itself the offering, done without any grasping for…
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Reading the Bhagavad Gita Book One
Arjuna rides his chariot into the gap between two armies, sees that the enemy is mostly his own family, and quietly falls apart. He drops his bow, sits down, and asks Krishna the question the whole Gita will spend eighteen chapters answering: what reason could possibly be good enough to make me kill the people I love?…
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Reading the Gita Book 2
Arjuna refuses to fight his cousins. Krishna's reply has two layers: souls cannot be killed, so calm down; and you are a warrior, so fighting is your duty — do it without caring about the outcome. Cecil reads Book 2 as Hinduism quietly answering Buddhism: yes, clear your mind, but what you find at the bottom is not…
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Gavin Baker on Orbital Compute, TSMC, and Frontier Models
Gavin Baker thinks the AI boom is the wildest thing he's ever seen — Anthropic added more revenue in a single month than Snowflake, Palantir and Databricks built over a decade combined. He argues the bottleneck shifts from chips to electricity to permits to physical land, and ends up in orbit, with SpaceX flying…
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Neuroscientist: How To Escape The Rat Race | Robert Sapolsky
Robert Sapolsky spent decades watching baboons on the Serengeti to learn what makes mammals sick from stress. The short version: being high-status helps less than you'd think. What matters more is having friends, living in a kind troop, and not seeing every shadow as a threat. He then takes the bigger swing — there's…
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta on Liberalism, Nihilism, and the Collapse of Sincerity
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, one of India's sharpest political thinkers, sits down with Shruti Rajagopalan and says the quiet part loud: liberals spent thirty years tweaking institutions while the actual problem was that politics had quietly turned nihilistic — people willing to burn the house down rather than lose, and a…
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Google I/O 2026, Karpathy Joins Anthropic, and Cerebras' $95B IPO | EP #256
Google had its big annual show, and after a year of people calling it dead, it's not dead — it's spending $180 billion on AI this year and serving Gemini to 900 million people. Most of the new stuff it announced is solid but unsurprising; Google is winning by integrating everything, not by being the smartest model.…
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Yale History Professor: We Are Sleepwalking Into The Next World War - And We're Running Out Of Time
A Yale historian argues that today's world looks much more like the years before World War I than like the Cold War or the 1930s. The leading power is dismantling the system it built, a fast-rising power has no clear seat at the table, and old alliances are wobbling enough that nobody is sure who would show up in a…
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Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Introduction
Wes Cecil is starting a read-along of the Bhagavad Gita and uses this first episode to set the stage. His main pitch: the Gita isn't just a beautiful poem inside the Mahabharata, it's a piece of polemic — Hinduism's measured response to Buddhism, which around 300–100 BC was busy dismantling the caste system, killing…
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Hermes just got 10x better...
Hermes Agent — a paid AI agent product that runs in Telegram — pushed an update with eight new features. The headline ones are persistent session memory (ask it what you did three weeks ago), background tasks that run while you keep chatting, computer control, native video generation, and an auto-kanban that breaks a…
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Inference, not prediction — Prof. Michael I. Jordan on what modern AI is still missing
Michael Jordan — the ML one, not the basketball one — argues that the entire AI conversation is stuck inside the wrong picture. We keep talking about a single big brain in a box that thinks for us. He says intelligence is mostly a social, economic thing. Tomatoes show up at your restaurant every morning not because…
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ED Chief On Money Laundering, Black Money, Raid, Hawala & Bribe - Karnal Singh | FO379 Raj Shamani
Karnal Singh ran the Enforcement Directorate, the agency that scares Indian businessmen. He explains what the ED actually does (chase money, not crime), why hawala within India is technically legal, how the Bank of Baroda and Nirav Modi scams worked, and why politically connected fugitives keep ending up in the UK.…
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How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines | The Caravan Conversations Ep1
A neuroscientist sits down with an old friend to argue, slowly and carefully, that the mind is not a thing but a process. Thoughts are just patterns of electricity in connected cells. Consciousness is not the driver, it is the surface foam that sometimes appears when those patterns get loud enough. The same trick,…
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Andreas Clenow — Trend Following Is About Taking A Lot Of Bets On A Very Large Number Of Markets
Two trend followers, Andreas Clenow and Meb Faber, sit down for an hour. The single line that holds it all together: trend following is not a strategy, it's a portfolio. You take small, identical bets on as many uncorrelated markets as you can find, lose on most of them, and wait for the few that keep running to pay…
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The Peculiarities of Volatility
Ernie Chan, ex-physicist turned hedge fund manager, makes three claims about volatility. First, predicting realized volatility — how much a stock actually wobbles tomorrow — is easy. A simple, decades-old model called GARCH gets the direction right about two-thirds of the time. Second, that prediction is almost…
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Simplicity in Trend Following | Andreas Clenow
Clenow's biggest regret about his first book is that the trading model wasn't simple enough. The cleanest trend-following rule in the world is two data points: is today's price higher than the price one year ago? If yes, go long. If no, go short. Run that on fifty futures markets with volatility-based position sizing…
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Quantitative Momentum: A Systematic Process to Identify High Momentum Stocks
Jack Vogel walks through Alpha Architect's recipe for a long-only momentum portfolio: start with the 1,000 largest US stocks, pick the 100 with the strongest 12-month return (ignore the most recent month), keep the 50 whose climb was smoothest, rebalance every three months timed to land just before quarter-end, and…
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Combining the Best Stock Selection Factors
Patrick O'Shaughnessy argues that the factor investing trade — buy cheap, buy trending, buy quality — has been so thoroughly mined that the easy alpha is gone. The fix, he says, is not to abandon factors but to use them more aggressively: smaller portfolios, weirder factors (high-conviction buybacks at cheap prices is…
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The Real Secret behind Trend Following and How it Works | with Martin Lueck
Martin Lueck co-founded AHL (now part of Man Group) and later Aspect Capital — two of the longest-running systematic trend-following shops in the world. In this conversation with Niels Kaastrup-Larsen, he argues that the real edge in trend following isn't the entry signal, it's the holistic plumbing: position sizing…
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Trade Like A Chimp! Unleash Your Inner Primate
Andreas Clenow runs random monkey portfolios against the S&P 500 and most of them win. The reason is not that monkeys are smart, it is that the S&P 500 is a market-cap-weighted index where ten giant stocks swamp the bottom three hundred. Once you stop letting the index pick your weights, almost anything works — random…
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Kerala Was the Center of the Ancient World | William Dalrymple | KLF2026
The Silk Road, as a story, is mostly a 19th-century invention. In the actual classical period — roughly 200 BCE to 1100 CE — east-west trade and ideas did not move along an overland motorway through China and Persia. They moved by sea, and the central hub was Kerala. Roman gold poured into Kerala for pepper, ivory,…
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The Unanchored Central Banker: Manoj Pradhan on Inflation, Demographics, and Why AI Won't Save Us
Manoj Pradhan returns for a follow-up to his 2020 book with Charles Goodhart, this time arguing that the demographic squeeze isn't only inflationary — it's also going to break central banks. As populations age, governments will borrow more to pay for pensions and care, China's deflationary export pipeline runs out,…
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Biologists Say They Cracked One of Life's Biggest Mysteries
Most of the molecules inside you have a handedness — they come in left and right versions, like gloves, and life on Earth only uses one of each. Nobody really knows why. A new paper claims it found the reason: one version is just better at moving electrons around, and since chemistry is basically electrons hopping…
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Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown): The High Cost of Being a Second-Hand Thinker
Grant Sanderson, the guy behind 3Blue1Brown, has been making math videos for over ten years and still loves it. He thinks most creators burn out because they treat themselves as relays — pipes that carry information from a book or a paper to an audience — and the audience eventually feels it. The trick, he says, is to…
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Can India Unlock a US$500 Billion Export Opportunity? — CSEP Seminar
A CSEP team ran a gravity model on India's trade flows and found India is leaving roughly $500 billion of goods exports on the table — about double what it actually exports — and that gap maps to roughly 24 million missing formal jobs. Almost half the missing exports sit in India's neighbourhood, with China alone…
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1,000 hours of focus advice in 28 minutes (science backed)
Most productivity content is procrastination dressed up as progress. The stuff that actually moves the needle is small and unsexy: a few protected hours of single-tasked deep work, scheduled around your body's natural energy peaks, with everything else ruthlessly cut or batched. The rest — apps, matrices, morning…
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The Inference Shift | Stratechery by Ben Thompson
For the last few years, AI compute has meant one thing: Nvidia GPUs, expensive and fast, useful for both training models and answering questions. Ben Thompson argues that's about to fracture into three different markets — training (still Nvidia's), fast answers for humans (where Cerebras and Groq shine), and agents…
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Gold imports duty, what India lacks in manufacturing & the falling rupee
A reader Q&A with economist Bidisha Ganguly on what the rupee-at-95, West Asia oil shock, and gold buying spree are doing to India's current account. The government has hiked gold import duty to 15%, banned sugar exports, and is burning through forex reserves to defend the rupee — each move solves one problem and…
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When will India Build Its Own Passenger Aircraft? | HAL CMD DK Sunil | Episode 54
India can already build fighter jets — the club of countries that can do that fits on one hand. But it still cannot design its own passenger plane. The HAL chairman says we will be assembling a 100-seater in India within five years (a Russian design, built here under license), and we might design our own from scratch…
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"We're not nice guys": Jeffrey Sachs exposes US deep state, mocks UK
Jeffrey Sachs — an American economist who once advised the dying Soviet Union, then Poland, then India — argues that US foreign policy has been roughly the same project for thirty-three years, regardless of who sits in the White House. The project: keep America on top, push NATO toward Russia's border, treat…
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Alcohol or THC: Which is Worse?
Alcohol and weed get lumped together, but they do almost nothing alike inside the body. Alcohol turns down the volume on the whole brain and slowly chews through your liver. THC doesn't lower the volume — it warps the signal, mostly in functional ways that fade when you stop. Alcohol has a clear, dose-linked link to…
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Can This Simple Change Save My Distracted Brain?
A randomized control trial got 500 people to block social media, news, games, and the web browser on their phones for two weeks. Calls and texts stayed on. The result: sustained attention went up, anxiety and depression went down, and life satisfaction climbed sharply — gains roughly equivalent to a hypothetical…
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The story of a 'Bank' in all but name | Intermission E02 - Bajaj Finance
A scooter-loan side-business inside a Gandhi-era family conglomerate quietly became one of the most valuable lenders in India. Bajaj Finance now hands out 150,000 loans a day — for phones, fridges, hair transplants, MRI machines, anything except, ironically, the Bajaj scooters it was set up to finance. Three things…
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India's Diplomatic Surrender? Prashant Bhushan's Explosive Claim | Full Interview
Anil Sharda of Salt interviews lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan for about an hour. Bhushan argues that almost every Indian institution — investigative agencies, the Election Commission, parts of the judiciary, mainstream media — is now bent toward protecting the BJP government, and that the scale of corruption has…
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What Comes After the iPhone? | Apple at 50 with David Pogue
David Pogue has been covering Apple since he bought a Mac in 1984. He just wrote Apple, The First 50 Years, and he sat down to talk about the bits the other Apple books got wrong, what Tim Cook is building next, and whether anyone can keep Steve Jobs's three-year rhythm of new platforms going. The short answer on the…
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Accelerating Science with AI
Kevin Weil, until recently president of OpenAI for Science, walks through what large AI models can now do in actual research labs — not the chatbot stuff, the hard stuff. In three years the same family of models went from flubbing high-school SAT math to autonomously solving open research problems in fields like…
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Master Self Control & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Kentaro Fujita
Self-control isn't a muscle you're born with — it's a toolkit you build. The famous marshmallow experiment didn't really prove some kids are destined for greatness; it proved kids who learn the right tricks (cover your eyes, imagine the marshmallow as a cloud, think about your parents) wait longer. Fujita's main move…
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#201 The Database is the Operating System | Mike Stonebraker, CTO & Co-Founder At DBOS
Mike Stonebraker — the guy who designed Postgres in the 1980s and has spent his life building database systems — has decided the operating system itself should be a database. Linux is fifty years old, was designed when a computer had 48 kilobytes of memory, and now has to babysit machines with thirty-two thousand…
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Abhinay sir EXPOSES the System | Modi Govt, Education Crisis & Youth Reality
Abhinay Sharma — the maths teacher who built Abhinay Maths into a household name in north Indian SSC-prep circles — sits down with a podcaster and spends two hours unloading on the Modi government, the courts, the coaching mafia, and a country that he thinks has been quietly walking backwards while told it is racing…
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Swissmaxing: How The 1% Actually Optimize Switzerland
Zurich and Geneva are the wrong answer if you're moving to Switzerland to optimise. The country is 26 cantons that actively compete for residents by undercutting each other on tax, and capital gains on private investments is already zero everywhere. The real game is registering your company in Zug (lowest corporate…
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Raghuram Rajan on the Middle East war and its economic impact on India and the world?
Seventy days into the Israel-US war on Iran, the Strait of Hormuz is still effectively closed and buffer stocks of oil, gas and fertilizer are running down. Rajan reads the war as a miscalculation that nobody can win — Iran's economy is wrecked, but so is the US recovery, and India sits exposed: half our oil and…
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Why We Switched From Claude Code to Codex
Dan Shipper and Austin (Every's head of growth) used to live inside Claude Code. Then OpenAI quietly pivoted Codex from a prickly senior-engineer tool into a polished general-purpose agent desktop app, and around GPT-5.5 it crossed the line into being their daily driver. The pitch is not really "Codex's model is…
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World Changing Technology in 2026
Four Stanford scholars sit down to map the technologies actually bending the world in 2026 — AI, synthetic biology, the cyber arms race, and the algorithmic shaping of what we believe. The takeaways: biology is quietly turning into a manufacturing technology as general-purpose as compute; the US-China AI contest is…
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Shaktikanta Das Reveals Big Reform Roadmap For India's Viksit Bharat Dream
Shaktikanta Das, speaking at the CII annual business summit, lays out where India stands in a world he calls one of "unknown unknowns" — pandemic aftershocks, war, tariffs, supply-chain breaks. His read: India has absorbed every shock since 2020 and grown faster than any major economy, averaging 7.4% over four years,…
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How Indian Stand-Up Really Works: Money, Risk, Politics - Masoom Rajwani
Masoom Rajwani is a Bombay stand-up comic who took roughly ten years to put his first special online and is now one of the small handful of Indian comics willing to do political material. He walks through the actual economics — pay to perform at open mics, busk outside clubs for ten people, scrape by on five hundred…
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Bernardo Kastrup - UAPs, UFOs, Aliens & High Strangeness | With Reality In Mind
Bernardo Kastrup, a computer engineer turned philosopher who runs the Essentia Foundation and is the leading living voice for analytic idealism, sits down to talk about flying saucers. The bridge is that the UAP phenomenon, as it has been reported for decades, refuses to behave the way a purely physical thing should:…
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Pine Labs, Exotel, Emami, Kohli's One8 & Sun Pharma's $11.75B Mega Deal | Decoding Exits | April
Blume's monthly M&A walk-through, April edition. Six deals across four flavours: a fintech tuck-in (Pine Labs bought Shopflo for Rs 88 cr cash), a healthcare hand-off (Redcliffe sold Krista IVF to MMG's Moon Care for ~Rs 100 cr), an Indian voice-AI buy (Exotel acquired Dubverse), two consumer brand exits (Emami taking…
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Amish Tripathi on The Indian History We Were Never Taught | Cyrus Says
The title promises a deep dive on Indian history. The actual conversation spends two-thirds of its runtime on AI before getting there. The history portion is the interesting bit: Amish argues our textbooks still run on the British template — Delhi-centric, land-focused, obsessed with invaders from the northwest — and…
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What Happens When Humans Stop Driving... | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat talks to transportation analyst Andrew Miller about a near future where robotaxis are normal in most American cities by around 2035. Waymo is winning on safety, Tesla is betting on cheap cameras, and the real bottleneck is not technology but liability law and human resistance to weird-looking accidents.…
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Can the demerger save Vedanta? | Uncovering the truth about sovereign loans | The Daily Brief #464
Two stories. First, Vedanta has finally been chopped into five listed pieces — aluminium, oil and gas, power, iron and steel, and a residual entity that holds the crown jewel Hindustan Zinc. The split is less about strategy and more about a London-based parent suffocating under its own debt. Second, when one country…
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Kyle Chan on China's industrial power and entrepreneurship | Subtext by Zerodha
Kyle Chan, a Brookings China fellow, walks through why Chinese industrial policy keeps producing strange-looking winners. The hero story for a Chinese entrepreneur is not disruption — it is grinding, scaling, and staying inside the lines of national priorities. The country bet on EVs over a decade ago not because they…
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What rebuilding AlphaGo teaches us about self-play, RL, and future of LLMs - Eric Jang
Eric Jang spent his sabbatical rebuilding AlphaGo from scratch — the system that beat the world's best Go player in 2016 — and got a strong bot running for about ten thousand dollars of cloud compute, work that originally cost DeepMind millions. Across two and a half hours he walks Dwarkesh through how the algorithm…
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Martin Wolf on the 'Terrifying' Superpower That the US Wields | Odd Lots
Martin Wolf's read of the world in mid-2026: the global economy is more resilient than headlines suggest, but the United States has become genuinely unpredictable in a way that is more dangerous than China. Markets shrug at tariffs and an Iran war because oil matters less than it did, profits are robust, and Trump…
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India's grid must match its solar ambitions | The coal mines that leak gas | The Daily Brief #465
India built solar capacity faster than it built the grid to absorb it. The result this April: power was nearly free at noon and rationed at 10 p.m. Storage, transmission lines, and grid-stabilising hardware are all years behind the panels. Separately, India's coal expansion is leaking enormous amounts of methane — a…
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At The Root Of Evil? Eric Voegelin and India by Renaud Fabbri
Eric Voegelin was a German-American philosopher who argued that modern political horrors — communism, fascism, Nazism — were really a sneaky return of ancient Gnosticism, the belief that you can engineer paradise on earth. He blamed this on the idea that the self and God are the same thing, and used India as Exhibit A…
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Andrew Yang is Back! AI, Power, Money — and Who the Hell Is Actually in Charge?
Andrew Yang says he is going to run for president again, eventually. His pitch: the two-party system is creaky, AI is about to chew through a lot of jobs, and the tech billionaires steering the bus are not looking out for anyone outside the bus. He thinks 2028 will be left plus right versus tech, and the answer is the…
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This Is Why I Find Pema Chödrön So Essential | The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra Klein sits down with the 89-year-old Buddhist teacher whose books have shaped how he handles his own anxiety. Her core claim is that the trick isn't to make discomfort go away — it's to stop running from it. You learn to sit with the tight knot in your chest, send it something like warmth, and notice what happens…
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Amazon's Durability | Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Amazon just announced it will sell its entire logistics stack — planes, trucks, last-mile — as a service to other companies, the way it once sold its servers as AWS. Ben Thompson predicted this exact move a decade ago. The pattern is always the same: Amazon builds infrastructure for itself, becomes its own best…
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Systems Thinking for Leaders: Designing Solutions That Work
John Sterman, the MIT professor who literally wrote the textbook on system dynamics, spends an hour explaining why smart people with good intentions keep producing terrible outcomes. The culprit is what he calls policy resistance — your solution works for a moment, then the problem comes roaring back through a side…
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Defeated! Picking Works By Design's Unpickable Lock
A YouTuber sent Lock Noob a one-of-three handmade "unpickable" lock to defeat. The lock's trick: the key splits into two pieces, so once you start turning it, the keyway rotates away and nothing can reach the pins. Lock Noob skipped the normal picking tools and used a centuries-old technique called impressioning — jam…
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Strong Small Cap Power Stock | Proxy For Data Centre ?
Value Educator walks through Atlanta Electricals, a Vadodara-based transformer maker pitched as a proxy on three converging tailwinds: India's ₹9.1 lakh crore power capex through 2032, the renewable build-out toward 500 GW by 2030, and the global data centre boom. Revenue has roughly doubled (₹860 cr to ₹1,800+ cr),…
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China's ultra-high voltage transmission lines now breaking all records.
If you build wind farms in a desert and the cities that need the power are 3,000 km away, your problem isn't generation — it's plumbing. China solved this by inventing the world's longest extension cord, running at a voltage so high it bends the rules of normal electrical engineering. Five years after the first one…
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He Studied Every Religion, This One Came Closest to Truth
A young seeker who has witnessed an Orthodox Christian miracle but refuses to convert sits down with Jeffrey Kripal, a Rice University historian of religion, and grills him for two and a half hours on the same question: if every tradition has its miracles, its saints, and its claims to ultimate truth, how do you…
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Godfather of AI: How To Make Safe Superintelligent AI – Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio — the most-cited living scientist of any kind — thinks he has found a way to build a superintelligent AI that doesn't lie to you and doesn't have its own agenda. The trick is to stop training AI to imitate what people would say or to chase rewards, and instead train it to be a kind of disembodied weather…
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AI and Propaganda: Nothing Is True, and Everything Is Generated
Peter Pomerantsev, who has spent a career watching how authoritarians weaponize information, sits down at MIT with Halyna Padalko to talk about what AI does to propaganda. His argument is that AI hasn't yet rewritten the playbook — social media did that — but the real shock is coming when we hand machines a goal like…
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The Most Undeniable Psi-Phenomena in 1 Paper | Etzel Cardeña
A psychology professor at Lund University rounded up every meta-analysis he could find on psi research — extra-sensory perception, mind-affecting-matter, that whole drawer — and noticed something inconvenient: they all point in the same direction. Small effects, but consistent ones, with statistical significance…
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Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars
Hybrid cars get stunning fuel economy not because of their batteries and electric motors, but because of a much more efficient kind of gasoline engine that, on its own, would be miserable to drive. The motors and battery exist to paper over the engine's bad manners — a small electric boost during acceleration, then…
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What it's like being Indian in China for 21 years
Max Chernov visits Tony, an Indian celebrity tailor who left Mumbai at 16 and has spent 22 years in Shanghai cutting suits for Bollywood stars and politicians. Tony talks about how Shanghai feels more open than Mumbai (especially for women), how Chinese kids decide things without asking their parents, why Indians buy…
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Why Work Was Invented — The Hidden History of Labour
The eight-hour workday is not a law of nature. It was assembled in three stages over five centuries — first by a theologian who made rest feel like damnation, then by factory owners who replaced the rhythm of seasons with the tyranny of the clock, and finally by a political arrangement that found exhausted populations…
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Trend Following: How to Make a Fortune in Bull, Bear, and Black Swan Markets
A small group of traders — Bill Dunn, John W. Henry, Bruce Kovner, Ed Seykota, the Turtles, the AHL crowd — have for forty years run the same boring rules across stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities: when something's going up, buy it; when it's going down, short it; cut losers fast, let winners run, never have…
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Value and Momentum Everywhere
The two most famous return anomalies — buying cheap things (value) and buying things that have been going up (momentum) — were studied for thirty years almost entirely in US stocks, and almost entirely in isolation. Asness, Moskowitz, and Pedersen run them across eight different markets — stocks in four regions,…
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Escaping the Illusion: Bernardo Kastrup Exposes Reality
Bernardo Kastrup — a Dutch philosopher with two PhDs and a long career in tech (CERN, IBM) — argues that the standard story of reality has it backwards. We assume matter is the bedrock and consciousness somehow squirts out of brains. He thinks consciousness is the bedrock, and what we call matter is just what…
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India's Delimitation Dilemma
Delimitation is the boring word for redrawing political boundaries — how many seats each state gets in Parliament, and how those seats are sliced up inside each state. India is supposed to redo this every ten years after the census, but in 1976, during the Emergency, the government froze the map to the 1971 census…
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David Reich – Bronze Age shock, the Neanderthal puzzle, & farming's sudden spread
Until very recently, geneticists thought human evolution went quiet a few hundred thousand years ago — that we'd basically settled into our final form and the rest was history, not biology. David Reich's lab just blew that idea up. By analysing DNA from 16,000 ancient skeletons, they show our genes have been rapidly…
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The Real Story Behind India–Pakistan Partition | Jugnu Mohsin x Sam Dalrymple on British Raj
Most people picture the British Raj as a slightly-bigger-India that got chopped into India and Pakistan in 1947. Sam Dalrymple's book Shattered Lands argues the Raj was actually a quarter of humanity stretching from Yemen to Burma, and that it was torn apart in five separate partitions over forty years, not one. Once…
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Metacognitive Intelligence in Human-AI Teams
A cognitive scientist from Illinois argues that the missing piece in AI isn't more raw intelligence — it's the ability to think about its own thinking. Humans in groups outperform individuals not because they pool facts but because they trade meta-information ("I'm not sure about this," "you sound confident, so I'll…
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Abby Martin: Deep State and US Empire | Doomscroll
Abby Martin has been an anti-empire journalist for two decades, since the days when "questioning power" was a left-coded thing rather than a right-wing thing. She walks through how that conspiracy-culture energy got hoovered up by Trump and the right, why Israel can't be reformed from inside, and why the US military…
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Why Indians Pay So Much for German Cars | Ft. Santosh Iyer, MD & CEO, Mercedes-Benz India
Mercedes-Benz India sells about 19,000 cars a year at an average price of one crore. The CEO, Santosh Iyer, walks through why the Indian luxury market is so small (only 1% of new cars), how the company tore up the traditional dealer model and went direct-to-customer, and why the bigger constraint isn't wealth but a…
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Ruchir Sharma on Why India Seems to Be on the Wrong Side of the AI Trade
Ruchir Sharma thinks the AI rally is a real bubble — overvalued, over-owned, over-invested — but says bubbles don't pop on their own; they need higher interest rates to kill them. Until the US 10-year breaks 5%, the music plays. India is being punished because it doesn't make chips and its software jobs look exposed…
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Why India Car And Bike Sales Are Booming In April 2026 | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
April 2026 was the best April Indian auto retail has ever seen — 26.11 lakh vehicles sold, up nearly 13% YoY, with two-wheelers, passenger vehicles, and commercial vehicles all hitting fresh records. The drivers are a mix of policy tailwinds (GST 2.0 cuts, three RBI repo cuts pushing financing rates to multi-year…
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How India created a private space industry | India's MSME Digital Struggle | The Daily Brief #459
Two stories, both about how Indian industry gets unbundled from government. First, India's space sector — a 190 kg satellite called Mission Dishi just got built by a five-year-old Bengaluru startup and rode up on a SpaceX rocket, something that was literally illegal here in 2020. Second, an IMF paper says when state…
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How AI Is Pushing the Semiconductor Supply Chain to the Limit | Bloomberg Primer
The world makes about a trillion chips a year, and a single dust mote can kill one. The fanciest ones — the GPUs powering the AI boom — depend on a supply chain so concentrated it's almost embarrassing: one Dutch company (ASML) makes the lithography machines, one Taiwanese company (TSMC) prints over 90% of the…
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Can India test its own medicine? | What is plastic, actually? | The Daily Brief #443
Two stories from Zerodha's daily India-business briefing. First: India is the pharmacy of the world for generics but a backwater for inventing drugs, and the chokepoint is clinical trials — specifically the regulator (CDSCO) and the subject expert committees that sit in front of it. Second: with Hormuz disrupting…
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Horace He: Building Machine Learning Systems for a Trillion Trillion Floating Point Operations
Horace He works on PyTorch's compiler team at Meta and writes the blog Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr — he's the person behind torch.compile and flex_attention. His thesis: training a frontier model now consumes about 10^26 floating-point operations, but the surprising bottleneck isn't doing the math — it's shoving…
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Howard Marks: AI, Debt vs Equity & The Next 40 Years Of Investing | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF
Howard Marks, co-founder of Oaktree and patron saint of distressed debt, sits with Nikhil Kamath for what is mostly a career retrospective wrapped around three live ideas: where we are in the cycle (middle-aged, no obvious excesses except maybe AI), why bonds were the better fit for his temperament than equities…
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Why Indian conglomerates are chasing fast fashion | The Daily Brief #453
Tata's Trent (Zudio), Reliance (Yousta), and Aditya Birla (Style-Up / "Owned") are all racing to sell t-shirts at Rs 399. The puzzle isn't why they want this market — Indian Gen Z buying cheap clothes is obviously huge — but why the conglomerates are winning instead of nimbler D2C brands. The answer is boring and…
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The Most Counterintuitive Way to Build a Brain
Close your eyes and hum We Will Rock You. Nothing is vibrating your eardrums — your brain is generating that song from inside itself. Kirsanov's question: how does a tangle of neurons produce a precise sequence out of thin air? The counterintuitive answer is reservoir computing: don't try to engineer the tangle. Leave…
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The End Of The Petro-Dollar
Andrei Jikh strings together a real news cycle — UAE flirting with leaving OPEC, the 1974 Saudi petrodollar handshake formally lapsing in 2024, Gulf states asking the US for dollar swap lines while Iran keeps the Strait of Hormuz closed — into a single narrative: the petrodollar system is unwinding and China is the…
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How Brian Chesky Is Redesigning Airbnb for the AI Era
Brian Chesky says the lesson of his last six years is that founders shouldn't hand the steering wheel to professional managers — they should keep it, learn the CEO job in the details, and only let go once they know what good looks like. He thinks AI is going to make that even more intense: fewer management layers, no…
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Delhi shifts gears with a new EV policy | India's credit market shift | The Daily Brief #446
Delhi's first EV policy was all carrots — subsidies, tax waivers, scrappage cash. It missed its target. The new draft policy adds sticks: hard cutoff dates after which you simply cannot register a new petrol or diesel vehicle in certain categories. Fleets first, then three-wheelers in 2027, then all two-wheelers in…
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John Galliano on Martin Margiela, dressing Zendaya, and his love of the process | System
Different conversation from the masterclass already in the vault — this one is the post-mortem to the January 2024 Maison Margiela Artisanal show that went viral, recorded right after Galliano's Met Gala double with Zendaya and Kim Kardashian. He talks about being given Martin Margiela's actual blessing to make the…
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Porus, Alexander & Punjab's Identity Crisis | Salman Rashid x Jugnu Mohsin Ep #1 | O1A2G
Salman Rashid is a Pakistani travel writer who has spent his life walking Punjab end to end and reading the primary sources on it. In this Punjabi-language conversation with Jugnu Mohsin, he runs through the timeline of his soil — pre-human Soan valley, Mehrgarh farming, Harappa, the Aryan trickle-in (not invasion),…
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The One thing holding back Clean Energy | The Daily Brief #242
The "one thing" is the grid — the unsexy network of power lines, substations, and transformers that actually carries electricity from where it's made to where it's used. The world is pouring $2.2 trillion into clean tech in 2025, but only about $400 billion into the grid, and 1,650 GW of solar and wind capacity is…
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Harvard's Exercise Professor: If You Exercise Like This, You're Destroying Your Body
Daniel Lieberman, the Harvard evolutionary biologist who wrote Exercised and Born to Run, is the actual guest — the channel is small enough that the title leans on shock value but he never tells anyone they're "destroying their body." His real argument is duller and more important: humans evolved as hunter-gatherers…
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In conversation: Yohji Yamamoto & Tim Blanks
Yohji Yamamoto, the Japanese designer who turned black and looseness into a worldview and made Paris uncomfortable in 1981, sits down with Tim Blanks — fashion's most patient interviewer — and gives the kind of interview only an 80-year-old can give. He says he's not a fashion designer, he's a clothing maker. He says…
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Top Economist: The Unthinkable Is About to Happen to China's Economy
Steve Keen — the post-Keynesian, private-debt economist who called the 2008 crash via Minsky — sits down with Ken Cow for what was billed as a debate on China and what Keen calls a "harangue." Keen's core point: most Western analysis of China is broken because it treats a sovereign currency-issuer as if it were a…
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The Paradox of Sexual Freedom
A grad student walks through Rollo May's 1969 argument from Love & Will: when we threw out Victorian repression and replaced it with sexual freedom, the problems didn't go away — they just moved inward. The old guilt was about whether you should. The new guilt is about whether you can perform, and whether you're…
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Posture, Bone Density & Muscle: A Stanford Doctor Destroys Aging Myths Most People Believe
Dr. Deborah Kado — gerontologist, geriatrician, and co-director of the Stanford Longevity Center — spent the early part of her career proving that the more bent over you are by your 70s, the sooner you tend to die, mostly via lung-related causes. Her broader point: the things we accept as "normal aging" — slumped…
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"It's Coming:" Energy Expert on Iran Oil Shock's Impact on U.S.
Jason Bordoff — Columbia energy professor, ex-Obama White House energy advisor, and co-author of the recent Foreign Affairs piece on the crisis — walks through what the Iran/Strait of Hormuz closure is actually doing to oil. Roughly 15 million barrels a day of crude and another 5 million of refined products are stuck…
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How to Sell a Product Nobody Understands
Donald Miller takes a kitchen gadget most people can't pronounce — a Sous Vide Supreme — and walks through his "soundbite strategy" for selling it. The core idea: pick one angle, write five short lines that move someone from problem to happy ending, then stack three pieces of "porch" content (PDFs, recipes, a video…
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The Iran War Has No Exit — ft. Ian Bremmer | Prof G Conversations
Ian Bremmer (Eurasia Group, the world's biggest political-risk consultancy) thinks the US is three months into an Iran war it can't win and can't leave. The Strait of Hormuz is closed, oil is volatile, the UAE has just walked out of OPEC, European leaders are publicly calling Washington humiliated, and Iran is…
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A year after Op Sindoor, India must look east & militarise Nicobar islands urgently
Op Sindoor was last May's 87-hour air skirmish with Pakistan. India has spent a year celebrating it. Shekhar Gupta argues that's a mistake — the next fight won't look like the last one. He wants India's strategic gaze to swing from the Punjab border to the Bay of Bengal, where China is quietly buying influence in…
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Anthropic's Boris Cherny: Why Coding Is Solved, and What Comes Next
Boris Cherny is the engineer who built Claude Code inside Anthropic. He says coding, for him at least, is "solved" — the model writes 100% of his code, he ships dozens of PRs a day from his phone, and he keeps a few hundred agents running in loops at any given time. The rest of the world is behind, but the gap is…
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Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
Karpathy — ex-Tesla AI director, OpenAI founding member, the guy who wrote nanoGPT and has been the field's clearest narrator on LLMs for years — sat down with Sequoia and basically said: something flipped in December. The agentic coding loop crossed a threshold where he stopped editing the model's output and just…
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Tim Heidecker: Irony, Comedy and the Internet
Tim Heidecker, half of Tim & Eric, sits down with Joshua Citarella to figure out what happened to comedy when the internet ate it. Two big claims. First: irony, which used to be a left-coded weapon for being absurd and offensive on principle, has been quietly inherited by the right, where it now smuggles real ideology…
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Context Is the New Code — Patrick Debois, Tessl
Patrick Debois coined the word "DevOps" back in 2009. His thesis now: when you stop writing code by hand and instead steer an AI coding agent, the real artifact you're producing isn't code — it's context (prompts, agent.md files, skills, docs you pulled in). And if context is the new code, it deserves the same…
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This 57 Year Old Chinese Billionaire's Advice Will Blow Your Mind...
The billionaire is Diane Wang, founder of DHGate — a B2B cross-border e-commerce platform out of Beijing connecting ~2 million Chinese manufacturers to small buyers in 230+ countries. Before DHGate she taught at Tsinghua, did senior management at Microsoft and Cisco, then co-founded Joyo.com (sold to Amazon in 2004 —…
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A Nobel Prize Winner's Unsettling Theory About the Self
The Nobel winner here is J.M. Coetzee — the South African novelist who won the 2003 Literature prize, not Kahneman. (The thumbnail and title are doing a lot of work.) His Nobel lecture wasn't a lecture at all; it was a short story called He and His Man, in which Robinson Crusoe sits alone in a Bristol room receiving…
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AI Will Destroy House Prices Forever — Fred Harrison Explains Why Nobody Is Telling The Truth
Fred Harrison, the UK property pundit famous for calling the 18-year housing cycle, says AI will hollow out the labour market, which hollows out the tax base, which hollows out government, which hollows out housing demand — a doom loop with no floor under current policy. His fix, the same fix he's been selling for…
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Why Physics Without Philosophy Is Deeply Broken... | Jacob Barandes
Jacob Barandes is a Harvard physicist (and co-director of the graduate program there) who thinks the standard textbook recipe for quantum mechanics — wave functions, Hilbert space, superposition, collapse — is not just weird, it's quietly broken. He spent years building an alternative called "indivisible stochastic…
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An Interview with Josh Fisher | Inventing VLIW, Multiflow, Itanium, VLIW's Massive Success
Josh Fisher invented an idea for how to build chips called VLIW — Very Long Instruction Word. The pitch: instead of making the chip a clever in-the-moment juggler that figures out at runtime which little operations it can do in parallel, hand the chip a single fat instruction that already says "do all of these eight…
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The Rich Already Ready For the AI Economy. Are You? | Michael Saylor
Saylor's pitch in one breath: the dollar quietly loses ~7% a year, AI and robots are about to make most "work" cheap, so anything that humans uniquely produce (labour, white-collar skill, even legal drafting) is getting demonetised. The only real defence is owning scarce, desirable property — Manhattan land, a Beatles…
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Juan Maldacena: The Emergence of Spacetime
Juan Maldacena is the physicist who, as a graduate student in 1997, wrote what's now the most-cited paper in theoretical physics. His big idea — usually called the "AdS/CFT correspondence" or "holographic principle" — says that gravity inside a region of spacetime can be exactly described by a quantum theory living on…
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Matty Healy: Pop Culture in the 21st Century | Doomscroll
Matty Healy, the lead singer of The 1975, sits with cultural theorist Joshua Citarella for two and a half hours on what's wrong with art in 2024. The thesis: pop culture has stopped producing new things and started endlessly remixing old ones, because the economics of being a young artist have collapsed. Aesthetic…
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The Bull Case for China: The Best Opportunity Right Now? | Louis Gave
Louis Gave thinks China stumbled into the best macro hand in the world: by accident, after the 2018 semiconductor ban, it stockpiled everything (oil, gas, fertilizer) and rebuilt itself as the world's industrial spine. Now, with Hormuz shut and the US Navy unable to get within a thousand miles of Iran, the old…
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Anthropic's Hidden Money Network Will COLLAPSE Open AI Competition - Bill Gurley Exposes All!
Bill Gurley — Benchmark partner, Uber's first money — is now running a policy institute and promoting his book on building careers from curiosity. The headline-bait about Anthropic is a four-sentence aside in a wider conversation: he says Anthropic is lobbying as aggressively as FTX did at its peak, and he reads the…
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Inside Ola's Cell Factory: I Spoke to Their Engineers
A YouTuber walks through Ola's lithium-ion cell factory in Tamil Nadu and gets three engineers — head of cell R&D, head of manufacturing, and the COO — to explain how a battery cell is actually made. The headline claim: Ola has commercialised a "dry electrode" process most cell makers (Tesla included) are still trying…
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John Galliano gives MA fashion students a masterclass in creativity at Margiela HQ | System
John Galliano sits in his Paris studio with eight fashion MA students and his two long-time muses, and walks them through how he actually makes clothes. The big idea is "emotional cutting" — instead of styling a finished garment to look windswept, you cut the cloth so the wearer just has to put a hand in a pocket and…
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ContraPoints: How Online Politics Became Real Life | Doomscroll
Natalie Wynn (ContraPoints) and Joshua Citarella spend three hours diagnosing why the online left lost the internet to the online right, and why making more leftist videos and podcasts will not fix it. The platforms themselves are the problem — they radicalize, they reward outrage, they erase the line between thinking…
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Why Ambedkar Turned to Buddhism – A Powerful Strategy Explained
Ambedkar didn't convert to Buddhism because he found inner peace. He converted because Hinduism had a glass ceiling for Dalits that no amount of reform could break. So he walked out and took a religion with him — but not the Buddhism of monks and nirvana. He invented a new one, Navayana, stripped of rebirth, karma,…
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THOMAS GOMART: Who Controls Whom? The New Global Balance of Power
Thomas Gomart, head of the French Institute for International Relations, argues we have left the era where the right question was "who is winning?" and entered one where the better question is "who controls whom?" Power today is less about visible victory and more about the asymmetric dependencies you've quietly built…
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David Brooks - Making People Feel Seen: How to Do it Right
David Brooks, by his own admission a stiff-upper-lip Jewish writer who lived in his head for fifty years, spent a few years interviewing people about how to make others feel seen and turned it into a book. The talk is a tour through the moves: the gaze, accompaniment, conversation, the right questions. The headline…
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Anne Lamott Teaches Unforgettable Writing
Anne Lamott — author of Bird by Bird, now 71, with 21 books behind her — sits with David Perell and unpacks how to write better sentences. The short version: stop waiting for inspiration, write a terrible first draft, then cut anything that's trying to sound literary. The longer version is gentler. Writing is not an…
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Are Tech Bros Ruining Fashion?
Allbirds, the wool-sneaker company, just rebranded itself as an AI infrastructure shell. That move is a tiny crack in a much bigger wall — fashion has quietly handed over its design, trend forecasting, and customer testing to AI tools, and the result is malls full of clothes that all look the same. Laura VonV walks…
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A Scholar's Deep Dive Into the Metaphysics of Religion | Diana Pasulka
A Catholic-history professor stumbled into UFO research through old archives — orbs, levitating saints, things penetrating walls — and noticed the records sounded suspiciously like modern UFO reports. She went from atheist scoffer to "what the heck is going on" agnostic. The conversation is really about how belief…
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What UX designers actually need to survive the AI era
A senior product designer at Lyft argues that the survival skill for designers in the AI era isn't another Figma plugin — it's storytelling. AI is good at patterns, automation, and recombining what already exists; it is genuinely bad at nuance, common sense, and unfamiliar situations, and it cannot do original ideas,…
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Caliban and the Witch
Caliban and the Witch (Autonomedia, 2004; revised 2014) is Silvia Federici's feminist Marxist history of how capitalism was born — not in the workshop or on the trading floor, but on women's bodies. Federici takes Marx's idea of primitive accumulation, the bloody process by which European peasants were severed from…
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Juan Alday: Why C++ Wins in Finance
A Citadel engineer explains why high-frequency trading desks live and die on C++. The whole pitch is one budget: 30 microseconds to receive a market signal, decide, check risk, and fire an order to Chicago — and the speed of light alone eats 20 of those nanoseconds per kilometer of fiber. Miss by 10 nanoseconds and…
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The Ideology Destroying the West | Emmet Connor
Emmet Connor — Irish author of Red Pandemic — argues that Marxism never died after the Soviet Union collapsed; it just changed clothes. What we now call "globalism" (the UN, WEF, EU, NGO complex) is, in his telling, the same revolutionary project, repackaged. Peter McCormack pushes back gently throughout: maybe these…
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Capitalism is Dead. This is What Comes Next.
Yanis Varoufakis sits down with Tom Nicholas and argues capitalism is already dead — not killed by socialists, but by capital itself, which mutated through the cloud into something he calls "cloud capital." The new lords (Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, Altman) don't compete for profit — they own the platforms we have to…
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Interpretation, Ideology, and the Loss of Wonder | Talk With Ruth Vanita
Ruth Vanita — long-time scholar of Indian and English literature, translator of Mahadevi Varma, author on Urdu poetry and the epics — argues that modern critical theory has trained students to feel superior to the books they read. Show up with the Marxist or feminist or post-colonial template pre-loaded, and you stop…
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The Case for Drinking Alcohol
Edward Slingerland, a philosopher of early Chinese thought who somehow ended up writing the leading defense of alcohol, argues we have been talking about drinking wrong. The medical lens — alcohol is a net-negative addictive substance — is correct but partial. It misses the part where ethanol has been our species'…
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Vivek Chibber: How the Left Got Lost | Doomscroll
A Marxist sociologist at NYU argues the American left is dead — captured by university professors and NGO staff who've redirected the language of radicalism away from class and capitalism toward fights about discrimination among the top 2% of professionals. He says the worst thing that's happened isn't Trump or Rufo;…
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Vivek Chibber: What is Socialism Today? | Doomscroll
Sociologist Vivek Chibber argues the left has been talking to the wrong people for forty years. The actual working class — multiracial, sixty-to-seventy percent of the labor force — is more open to organizing than at any point since the 1950s. The barrier isn't "racist workers." It's college-educated intellectuals who…
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Fashion Advice From Tim Gunn
Tim Gunn, walking and talking, lays out his theory of dressing well in three words: silhouette, proportion, fit. He hates leggings-as-pants, untucked shirts, and the sheer volume of disposable clothing the industry produces. His central pitch is to find a uniform you trust and stop chasing the pendulum, because the…
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As Foreign Investment Slows, India's Wealth Is Filling the Gap
Foreign money into Indian startups dried up after 2022. Indian wealth — old family fortunes, first-generation founder cash, and a new layer of ESOP millionaires — has stepped in to fill the gap. Family offices have grown from 45 to 300 in six years and are now writing private equity-style cheques. The open question is…
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Brutally Honest Advice About Web Design in 9 mins
Fifteen rules from a guy who's built 750 websites. Most of them boil down to: nobody reads, everybody judges, and design that gets in the way of the message is the actual problem. The thread running through all of it — clarity beats prettiness, real beats polished, and a website is a living thing you tend to, not a…
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Catherine Liu: the Psychology of Liberalism
Catherine Liu is a film professor at UC Irvine who writes blunt little books about the white-collar professional class and how it captured the American left. Her argument here: liberals have replaced politics with feelings, replaced reason with vibes, and replaced organisation with purity rituals — and the right is…
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How to Fall in Love with Someone | Yale Conversations with David Brooks
Brooks walks Yale through the staged anatomy of falling in love — glance, curiosity, dialogue, crystallization, the inevitable fight, forgiveness, the shared future, then a rational check before commitment. Marriage itself runs on tiny moves ("bids") and a campaign against your own selfishness. The reward is "second…
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He Quit Uber, Beat ChatGPT At Harvard, And Went Solo Building AI | Rahul Sonwalkar
Rahul Sonwalkar, the founder of Julius (an AI-for-data-analysis tool), talks about being a solo founder. He didn't choose it — his college friends bailed a few months in and he kept going. The whole conversation orbits one idea: when you don't have a co-founder, you have to be exceptionally good at convincing people —…
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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce
Bob Odenkirk — Saul Goodman, sketch lifer, surprise action star — sat down with David Marchese and accidentally delivered a quiet sermon on middle age. He almost died on the set of Better Call Saul four years ago, woke up a week later with no memory of it, and has been trying ever since to describe what came back: a…
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Mark Fisher: The Slow Cancellation Of The Future
Mark Fisher walks into a room in Zagreb in 2014 and tells the audience he's about to deliver "the bad news you already know": the future has disappeared. Not in the obvious sci-fi sense, but in the cultural sense — music, movies, and politics no longer feel like they belong to a specific moment. A song from 2014…
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Amia Srinivasan is the modern philosopher | The Exchange
Amia Srinivasan is the philosopher who occupies the chair Isaiah Berlin once held at All Souls, Oxford — but she writes about porn, dating apps, and "fuckability" instead of the meaning of "slab." Her central move is taking things people insist are private — who you swipe right on, who you find attractive — and…
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Gold Explained, Finally
Johnny Harris walks through the history of gold as a four-step psychological climb: cows (useful) → gold (scarce and shiny) → paper backed by gold → fiat paper backed by nothing but trust in the Fed. Each step is a leap of belief, and the further we climb, the more abstract the bargain. The reason gold is hitting…
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India: A Superpower Without Sidewalks?
Sadanand Dhume (AEI, WSJ columnist) walks Jim Cardoso through the central paradox of modern India: a country with moon landings, nuclear weapons, and the world's fourth-largest economy that still can't lay reliable sidewalks. The interview is built around the idea that India has somehow acquired the trappings of a…
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Why does it feel Different this time?
A fashion historian sits down to answer the question everyone keeps asking her: is this 1933 again? Her answer is: no, and that's actually scarier. The historical playbooks people are reaching for, including the people in power, only worked under very specific conditions that no longer exist. Her practical advice is…
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The Truly Absurd Secrets of An Incredible Americano
The Americano is a neglected drink — espresso plus hot water, treated as an afterthought. Hoffmann reckons it can be dramatically better with three slightly absurd moves: don't use the hot water tap on the espresso machine (it tastes flat from sitting in the steam boiler), instead steam cold water up to about 67°C and…
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Fake Paneer, Fake Influencers, Real Propaganda | Diss-Course with Buffalo Intellectual
Anurag Verma sits down with Buffalo Intellectual for an 82-minute "Diss-Course" — a roving cultural autopsy of contemporary India. They start with Noida being "the most honest city in India" because it has no pretensions, then ricochet through Dhurandhar and Aditya Dhar's brand of state-aligned cinema, the fake paneer…
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The Most Important Thing You Can Do To Build Strength
Strength is not just about how big a muscle is. It's also about how much of that muscle your nervous system is willing to actually use. Most untrained people, even when they think they're pushing as hard as they can, are only really firing 70-85% of the muscle. Heavy lifting trains the brain to release the safety…
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The Indian Railways changes its playbook for its coaches | The Daily Brief #451
Three stories in one episode. The headline: India's iconic blue passenger coach has been quietly retired and replaced — first by safer German-design LHB coaches, now increasingly by self-propelled Vande Bharat trainsets, with a Rs 65,496 cr FY27 rolling-stock budget pulling private players like Tata, BHEL and Medha…
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The Energy Market Is Rigged. And EVs Expose It | Greg Jackson & Rory Sutherland
Two Brits who don't usually share a stage — Greg Jackson, CEO of Octopus Energy, and Rory Sutherland, the Ogilvy ad-man who reads the Spectator — sit on Oxford Street and pull at the same thread from opposite ends. Jackson's argument is mechanical: UK electricity costs four times as much as gas because the market was…
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Lyn Alden: The Collapse Is Here, Nothing Stops This Train
Alden walks through her now-familiar long-debt-cycle frame: the 1920s-30s-40s and the 2000s-10s-20s rhyme because the same incentives keep producing the same arc — private debt bubble, then crisis, then the bubble migrates onto the public ledger. We're past the migration. The exit options are productivity-led growth…
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China's Dirty Money Problem, Explained
Roughly 3-5% of world GDP — about $4 trillion a year — is the proceeds of crime, and most of it has to be laundered before it can be spent. Johnny Harris walks through one specific laundering rail called "flying money" — a trust-based, paperless way of moving value across borders that the Chinese diaspora has used for…
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Thought doesn't just happen in the brain | Barbara Tversky
A cognitive psychologist argues that thinking isn't a thing that happens only inside your skull. It happens in your hands, your posture, the space around you. Half your brain is spent on spatial stuff, and that machinery is older than language by hundreds of millions of years. The clearest evidence is small and weird:…
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Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones on AI Risk, Bubbles and Buffett
Paul Tudor Jones, 50 years into being a macro trader, finally admits Buffett was right and trend-riding compounders eat trader-cowboys for lunch. He thinks US equities are a slow-motion accident waiting on a catalyst — 252% market-cap-to-GDP, IPO unlocks about to flip the buyback math negative, and a passive S&P bet…
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How Fourier Separates Market Ingredients: Decoding Wall Street
A stock chart looks like a scribble. The Fourier transform is a machine that takes any scribble and tells you which simple, repeating waves were stirred together to make it. Quants use it to spot hidden cycles in markets — earnings rhythms, multi-year booms — but the cycles keep mutating, so the trick stays useful…
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Hiranandani: The Future is Uttar Pradesh, No Ease of Doing Business, Navi Mumbai vs Thane
Niranjan Hiranandani — the man who built Powai out of swamp — sits down with Vishal Bhargava and rates India's ease of doing business at 4-5 out of 10. He picks Navi Mumbai (Mumbai 3.0) and Uttar Pradesh as the two biggest growth bets of the next decade. He admits to one cash loss (a frenzied land buy in New Bombay),…
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RBI 'defending' rupee, capital account convertibility, & can tax policy drive jobs | Bidishanomics Ep 6
A viewer Q&A on Indian macro plumbing. Bidisha Bhattacharya walks through what RBI is actually doing when it "defends" the rupee (spoiler: mostly smoothing expectations, not pegging a number), why full capital account convertibility hasn't happened and probably shouldn't, why differential corporate tax rates only…
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Normal people are starting to go crazy
A comedian-essayist tells two stories — Eric Weinstein convincing himself Anthropic is running a covert op against him, and Daniel, a 50-year-old resort owner who buys Meta's smart glasses and ends up driving into the Utah desert at 2am to be picked up by aliens. The thread connecting them: chatbots have no point of…
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Dr. Aradhna Aggarwal on SEZs, their role in economic development, and India's growth ambitions
Special Economic Zones are walled-off bits of a country with friendlier rules, meant to attract foreign factories and let their know-how leak into the rest of the economy. The leaking is the hard part — most countries fail at it, ending up with shiny enclaves that earn dollars but don't transform much else. India…
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Someone open-sourced a hedge fund (53k stars on GitHub)
A UCLA paper called Trading Agents got open-sourced and is now sitting at 53k stars on GitHub. It's a Python framework that simulates an entire hedge fund as a graph of LLM agents — four analysts in parallel, a bull and bear who debate each other, a trader, a risk team, and a portfolio manager with veto power. Every…
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Demis Hassabis: We're Three Quarters of the Way to AGI
Demis Hassabis sits down with Sequoia and says, calmly, that AGI arrives around 2030 — exactly the 20-year arc he predicted in 2010. The interesting parts aren't the headline. They're the side claims: drug discovery collapsing from 10 years to weeks; a "virtual cell" on the way; simulation becoming a new branch of…
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Market euphoria is over. Best time to buy stocks after COVID | S. Naren Explains
S. Naren says the euphoria is gone but don't expect 2020-23 returns either — this is a moderate-return world (nominal GDP, maybe nominal GDP + 2%, not 25% per annum). ICICI Prudential's proprietary valuation indicator just flashed green for the first time since COVID, triggered by savage FII selling in March 2026.…
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Mehdi CHALLENGES Graham Platner on His Tattoo and More
Mehdi Hasan interviews Graham Platner, an oyster farmer and Marine vet running in the Democratic primary for a Maine Senate seat against Republican incumbent Susan Collins. Platner is leading his establishment opponent Janet Mills by 27 points despite real baggage — a tattoo from 2007 that resembles an SS skull, old…
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India Cement Industry Shift! UltraTech Expansion Explained | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
UltraTech just hit 200 million tonnes of cement capacity — second only to the Chinese giants and the largest outside China. The first 100 million tonnes took 36 years; the second 100 million took less than seven, mostly through bolt-on acquisitions of stressed and idle plants. CRISIL's Anand Kulkarni walks through…
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The Economy Needs You To Feel Like A Failure
You feel slightly behind on life because the modern economy needs you to feel that way. The same brain wiring that helped early humans survive scarcity — a dopamine system that rewards wanting more than getting — has been hijacked by the growth economy and then turbocharged by social media. Past a fairly low income…
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Zohran Mamdani and Post-Populism
A 34-year-old Muslim democratic socialist named Zohran Mamdani went from polling 1% to winning the NYC mayoral race. The video argues he won not because of his policies (rent freeze, free buses, city-owned grocery stores) but because of how he talks about them — specifics instead of slogans, conversation instead of…
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Arvind Subramanian, Devesh Kapur, Ashutosh Varshney, Rohit Lamba - India's Development Odyssey
Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Kapur have written an 800-page book — A Sixth of Humanity: India's Development Odyssey — argued out at George Washington University with Ashutosh Varshney and Rohit Lamba as discussants. The central frame is "precociousness": India did everything in the wrong order. Democracy before…
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Sea Limited: Building the Next Amazon?
Sea Limited is a Singaporean conglomerate that runs Shopee (Southeast Asia's largest e-commerce marketplace), SeaMoney (a buy-now-pay-later and consumer lending business), and Garena (a gaming publisher with one blockbuster, Free Fire). The stock has been a rollercoaster — up 2,100%, down 90%, up 400%, now down 55% —…
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Sex Scientist: What Women Actually Need To Enjoy Sex
Dr. Reena Malik is a urologist who studies sex for a living. Her thesis is simple: sexual function is a downstream report card on the rest of your health — blood vessels, hormones, sleep, stress, pelvic floor muscles, and the company you keep. Most "bedroom problems" are actually circulation, sleep, or anxiety…
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Reed Hastings: From Building Netflix to What Comes Next
Reed Hastings, two years post-Netflix, sits with Reid Hoffman to map where AI actually bites and where it doesn't. His thesis: stop arguing about AGI timelines, assume it's coming, and ask what 2045 looks like. Anything emotional is safe — basketball, flowers, real actors, classroom presence — anything symbolic and…
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How To Build a Personal Agentic Operating System
Every agentic tool — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Open Claw, Anti-Gravity — is converging on the same capabilities. So the tool you pick matters less and less. What matters is the system underneath: a set of plain text files that describe who you are, what you know, how you work, what you remember, and what you can…
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Shopify Distinguished Eng (L10): Principal+ Engineering, Career Story, Regrets | Ilya Grigorik
Ilya Grigorik climbed to L10 distinguished engineer at Shopify after founding a startup, getting acquired by Google, and zigzagging between IC and manager roles for fifteen years. His big claim: at the principal+ level, the job description disappears — you get parachuted into a foreign country and have a week to…
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Will AI destroy the economy?
Gary takes the standard economist line — "AI raises productivity, so AI raises wages" — and walks it through actual industrial history. The Industrial Revolution, the cleanest natural experiment we have, produced 150 years of hellish poverty before living standards moved. Productivity grew enormously the whole time.…
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Stop Struggling with CUDA: How Ubuntu 26.04 is Fixing AI Development Forever
A GPU is a stack of tiny calculators. CUDA is the rulebook NVIDIA wrote so your code can talk to those calculators. For two decades, getting that rulebook installed on a Linux machine has been a rite of passage involving driver versions, kernel headers, and a lot of swearing. Jon Seager, VP of Engineering for Ubuntu,…
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Claude Video Editing Just Became Unrecognizable
A YouTuber drops a 50-second raw recording into Claude Code and gets back a 27-second edited video with motion graphics, subtitles, and a final "thanks for watching" card — all from natural-language prompts. The stack is Claude Code as orchestrator, a tool called video-use for trimming filler words, and hyperframes…
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But What Actually Is a Particle? How Quantum Fields Shape Reality
Forget the picture of a tiny ball flying through space. According to our best theory, an electron isn't a thing — it's a wobble. The whole universe is filled with invisible jellies (one for electrons, one for photons, one for quarks, and so on), and a particle is just the smallest possible wobble that one of those…
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Google Open Sourced DESIGN.md. Here's Why It Matters
Google open-sourced a markdown spec called DESIGN.md — same idea as CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, but for design systems. It tells coding agents what colours, typography, spacing, shapes, and dos-and-don'ts to follow, so a project can hop between Figma, Stitch, Cursor, Claude Design, or any of a dozen vibe-coding tools…
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Principles for Autonomous System Design: OpenClaw Deep Dive
A Berkeley networking PhD spent a month inside the OpenClaw codebase trying to figure out why this new "always-on autonomous agent" feels different from LangChain or Claude Code. His answer: three layers (connectors, gateway, runtime), two ways of handling time (heartbeat for the unscheduled, cron for the scheduled),…
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Block CTO Dhanji Prasanna: Building the AI-First Enterprise with Goose, their Open Source Agent
Block's CTO walks through how a payments company turned itself into an AI-first shop by treating every internal system — Gmail, Snowflake, Square payments, GitHub — as a "capability" sitting under an agent middleware layer. The agent is Goose: an open-source, MCP-native, model-agnostic loop that runs on your laptop,…
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Nobel Prize Winner: Nobody Sees What's Coming After AI
John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize for showing, back in 1985, that the weird rules of quantum physics work not just inside atoms but inside electrical circuits big enough to hold in your hand. That discovery is the seed of every quantum computer being built today. His timeline: in five to ten years, a quantum…
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I Spent $20,000 on AI Tools, Here's What Actually Works
A creator's tour of the AI stack he actually pays for. The headline number is theatre — the real list is short: Claude Max ($200/mo) for everything chat-and-agent, Conductor (free wrapper) to switch between Claude Code and Codex in one window, n8n self-hosted on Hostinger to move data around, Retune for visual…
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The Karpathy CLAUDE.md File That 43,000 Developers Installed in 1 Week (Full Breakdown)
Andrej Karpathy tweeted his pet peeves about AI coding agents — they assume too much, overbuild, edit things you didn't ask for, and lose the thread on what "done" means. A developer named Forest distilled the tweet into a single CLAUDE.md file, dropped it on GitHub, and 43,000 people starred it in a week. The file is…
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Apple's critical weakness
Apple's M-series chips are, on paper, the best hardware money can buy for data science. They have unified memory, dozens of cores, and a neural engine that costs a fraction of equivalent Nvidia kit. But almost nobody in data science uses them, because the entire ecosystem runs on Python, which is single-threaded,…
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Myntra Founder: Is This the End of Software Engineers? | SparX
Two old colleagues — Mukesh Bansal (Myntra, Cure.fit) and Piyush Ranjan (ex-Flipkart CTO, ex-Google VP) — compare notes on what AI has done to building software in the last six months. Both are CEOs who have stopped delegating and started writing code again, because they can. Their case: an engineer is no longer the…
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Agentic Stack: One Brain Across 8 AI Coding Agents
Agentic Stack is a portable .agent/ directory — your AI coding agent's brain in a folder. It plugs into eight different harnesses (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, etc.) so the same memory, skills, and conventions follow you no matter which tool you open. Four memory layers, a nightly cron job that mines…
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Viral Brand Expert: The Content Strategy Nobody Is Talking About
Kent Yashimura, co-founder of Neurogum, walks through what actually works in 2026 content marketing. The big shifts: TikTok Shop went pay-to-play in mid-2025 and most brands are quietly fleeing; nano-influencers (your friend's friend with 800 followers) are eating micro-influencers; lives are now retargeting weapons,…
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Why Anthropic, Meta, and Tesla All Chose the Same Database | Aaron Katz, ClickHouse
Aaron Katz took a fast Russian database called ClickHouse, plucked it out of Yandex, moved the engineers to Amsterdam, and built a cloud service around it. Five years later it is the database under the hood of Anthropic, Meta, Tesla, OpenAI, Vercel, and a long list of others when they need to chew through huge piles…
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How to Build a Substack Publication That Prints Money
Substack is no longer just a newsletter tool — it's a chat, podcast host, video studio, short-form feed, and discovery algorithm bundled into one. Sinem's pitch: stop trying to live off $5/month subs, and instead use the publication as the trust layer for a four-tier funnel — free content → paid subs → small digital…
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Fake Celebrations Exposed: Political Narratives & Media Illusions | Ft. Anand Ranganathan
Scientist-turned-commentator Anand Ranganathan does the standard trick of granting India its big achievements (life expectancy doubled, literacy up six-fold, infant mortality down to single digits in Kerala) and then immediately pulling out a longer list of why the celebration is premature. Per-capita GDP rank 136.…
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FRANCIS FUKUYAMA: Turning Point or Breaking Point?
Fukuyama, the man who once said history was over, sits in Vienna a few days after Viktor Orbán just lost a Hungarian election after sixteen years in power. Three panellists ask: is this a turning point, or just a moment before things get worse? Their joint answer is roughly — Orbán losing breaks the spell that the…
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Is India Still the Democracy We Believe It Is | Dr. Shashi Tharoor & CJI Dr. D. Y. Chandrachud
Shashi Tharoor and former Chief Justice D. Y. Chandrachud sit on a Mumbai stage in front of 950 law students and have a fairly civil, fairly pointed conversation about whether the Indian constitution is still doing its job. They disagree without disagreeing rudely. Tharoor is more worried about institutional erosion,…
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How this Trader Turned ₹85L Into ₹2.5Cr Using Systematic Trading !! #Face2Face with Mr. Shyam
Shyam is an ex-IT/MBA guy from Coimbatore who failed at discretionary trading for years, then in 2020 sat at home through COVID and manually backtested ten years of price data on graph paper energy. He turned full-time in 2021 with a small account, got stuck in 2022 because his profits were just paying his household…
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$1 AI Guardrails: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Finetuned ModernBERTs
LLMs cannot natively tell the difference between instructions from a developer and instructions hidden inside the data they read. That gap is being exploited everywhere — in user prompts, in scraped web pages, in retrieval databases, in tool descriptions, in GitHub issue titles. Diego Carpentero's pitch is that you do…
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Deepseek V4, GPT-5.5, Kimi K2.6, MiMo Pro, video game agents, 4K editing: AI NEWS
A wild week in AI. Deepseek finally shipped V4 to mixed reviews, OpenAI's GPT-5.5 reclaimed the top closed-model slot, and two new open-source models, Kimi K2.6 and Xiaomi's MiMo 2.5 Pro, tied for the open-source crown. On the side: an open-source agent that builds video games end to end, a HuggingFace agent that does…
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Is this India's next Big Opportunity?
India's data center capacity has gone from 370 MW in 2020 to over 1,700 MW in 2025, with another 500 MW slated for 2026 and a path to 5,000 MW by 2030. Cumulative investment commitments crossed $26B and could hit $180B. The video walks through the six layers of the data center value chain, then zooms into the…
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Don't Delete Noisy Photos — Edit Them Like This
Wildlife shooters often have to crank ISO into ugly territory — rain, low light, fast birds. The grain that follows used to mean tossing the shot. Matt Shannon's pitch: don't. Run the raw file through DxO Pure Raw 6 first to strip noise and add lens-specific sharpening, then go back to Lightroom for the regular…
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NVIDIA's New AI Broke My Brain
NVIDIA released Sonic, a humanoid-robot brain that takes almost any input — a video of a person moving, a voice command, music, or just text — and turns it into smooth, balanced, full-body motion. The trick is that the entire trained model is only 42 million parameters, small enough to run on a phone. They trained it…
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Why the Next Decade Isn't Just About India ft. Saurabh Mukherjea
Saurabh Mukherjea's pitch is that every Indian investing decade has had one defining theme — real estate (2004-14), domestic equities (2014-24) — and the next one is global diversification. The reasoning: 70% of an affluent Indian's spending is effectively in dollars (iPhones, flights, foreign degrees, holidays), the…
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What they learned running a fund in GIFT City? | Subtext by Zerodha
Two PMS operators from Philip Capital sit down with Zerodha to explain what GIFT City actually does. The short version: it's an offshore financial zone inside India (between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar), regulated by a single body called IFSCA, that lets foreign money come into India and Indian money go out without the…
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How to Educate Yourself Like A Self-taught Millionaire
Tom Sosnoff, the Tastytrade and Thinkorswim founder, lays out the five things he actually looks for when hiring in 2026. The degree gets you in the room but no longer carries you. What separates candidates now is fluency with AI tools, evidence that you've built something on your own, presence in a room, the ability…
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Webinar: Ellipsis - the zero employee AI Native VC
Two ex-Google/Apple builders started a venture fund with a weird constraint: only two humans, no analysts, no associates. Everything else gets done by AI agents. They wrote down how they think about deals in painful detail, turned that into a library of "skills" the models can call from anywhere, and now run a 24/7…
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The Judiciary Debate! Ft. Sai Deepak, Swamy, Bhushan, Sibal, Hegde, Gaggar, Gopal
Seven of India's sharpest legal minds spent two hours arguing over a single sentence: should Parliament have a hand in choosing judges? The "yes" side said the current system, where senior judges quietly pick the next senior judges, is an opaque club producing nephews and juniors instead of the country's best legal…
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Indian Markets Are Stuck. Here's What Nobody Is Telling You. | Debashish Bose | ThisOrThat with Bhartendra
Debashish Bose, a 26-year veteran fund manager, walks through why Indian equities have gone nowhere for 18 months and why the easy story ("EM rotation, Trump tariffs, oil shock") misses the real plumbing. The Western world is sitting on debt that is not 1x GDP but closer to 20x once you count derivatives, and the only…
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India May Slip Into Recession In 2026-27
The US-Israel-Iran war shut traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, sending oil prices up and the rupee past 95 to the dollar. Deepanshu Mohan, an economist at Jindal Global, argues India walked into this fragile — low strategic petroleum reserves (about nine days of cover), foreign investors already pulling money out,…
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Data Patterns — Three Columns on the Engineer's Wager
In a clean room at the SIPCOT IT Park in Siruseri, twenty-five kilometres south of Chennai, the air is filtered to one-hundred-class purity and the floor is anti-static. A pair of engineers in white coats are running an acceptance test on a bay of equipment that, viewed from above, looks like a very large piece of…
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'Iran and Gaza Are ONLY THE BEGINNING' (Chris Hedges at Princeton)
Chris Hedges, speaking at Princeton in the middle of an active US war on Iran, argues that Gaza is not an aberration but a preview. The same Western states funding the destruction of Gaza, southern Lebanon, and now Iran are, by his reading, dismantling their own democratic institutions in parallel. He spends most of…
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History, Bias & Narrative: Who Controls the Truth? ft. Ashwin Sanghi
Ashwin Sanghi — Mumbai businessman turned bestselling thriller writer (Rosabal Line, Chanakya's Chant, the Bharat series) — sits with IIMUN's Rishabh Shah for a long, meandering interview. Half is autobiography: South Bombay boyhood, a maternal grand-uncle who shipped him a book a week, an MBA at Yale, two decades of…
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WATCH: 'NOT JUST RSS, America Misreads India', Top RSS Leader Hosbole Hits Back At U.S.
Dattatreya Hosabale, the General Secretary of the RSS, sat down at the Hudson Institute in Washington for a fireside chat with an American interviewer who has been studying the organisation for years. The pitch: at 100 years old, the RSS is one of the largest voluntary organisations on the planet, the Americans don't…
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No Justice for Common Man | Nope w/ Kunal Kamra ft Shahrukh Alam | 047
Supreme Court advocate Shahrukh Alam walks Kunal Kamra through why ordinary Indians have started fearing the very law that is supposed to protect them. Her central argument is that the law in India has become unpredictable: meanings shift on the go, judges substitute personal morality for legal reasoning, prosecutors…
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Why Nehru Scares BJP | Jan Hith Mein Jaari | 016
Kunal Kamra spends half an hour explaining why the BJP keeps blaming Jawaharlal Nehru for everything, sixty years after his death. The short version: if you can convince people that the man who built the institutions you are now selling off was actually a fool, you do not have to explain why you have built nothing…
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Jeremy Grantham: Lessons from 60 Legendary Years of Investing
Jeremy Grantham, 87, has been calling bubbles for six decades. He says the current US market is one of the two or three most expensive in business history, and the world it sits inside — climate, demographics, geopolitics, trade war, actual war — is one of the more dangerous ones. He doesn't predict crashes, he just…
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Yogendra Yadav : BJP Has Gone So Deep Into Power, Leaving Is No Longer an Option | People's Affairs
Yogendra Yadav — political scientist, psephologist, and activist — sits down for a 90-minute conversation covering almost everything wrong with Indian democracy in 2026. The BJP, he argues, has embedded itself so deeply into the machinery of the state — electoral rolls, judiciary, media, defense contracts — that even…
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Shilchar Technologies — Three Columns on the Multibagger
A Shilchar inverter-duty transformer arrives at a 100 MW utility-scale solar plant in Bikaner, Rajasthan, on a Tuesday morning. It has been on a flatbed truck for two and a half days, lashed down with steel cables, escorted by a pilot vehicle through the narrow stretches near Sirohi. The transformer itself is a…
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Power Grid — Three Columns on the Wire Monopoly
The largest solar park in India sits in the Thar desert in Rajasthan, near a village called Bhadla. Two thousand two hundred and forty-five megawatts of installed capacity, spread across fourteen thousand acres of low scrub. At 4:14 in the morning the panels are still cold, the inverters are humming faintly, and every…
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Fundamental Constants of Nature - Part 01
A retired professor at IIT Madras walks a room of physics students through a small but stubborn idea: out of the hundreds of constants you find in a physics textbook, only three are truly fundamental — Newton's gravitational constant G, the speed of light c, and Planck's constant h-cross. Combine them in the right way…
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JPMorgan and Citi Take Payments Rivalry Onto the Blockchain
JPMorgan and Citi each built blockchain-based payment systems to move dollars around the world 24/7, instead of waiting for SWIFT messages and Fed clearing windows. JPMorgan calls its tokens "deposit tokens" (digital IOUs against your bank balance) and runs them on its in-house chain Kinexys. Citi runs Citi Token…
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Every Civilization Has a Structural Limit — The French Revolution Hit It Exactly
The textbook story of the French Revolution blames the queen, the king, and a hungry mob. The actual numbers tell a colder story. A Russian-born population ecologist named Peter Turchin built a model that says complex societies collapse when three measurable variables cross their thresholds at the same time — the…
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Why BJP has abandoned Hindutva for Ambedkarism | Jouvenel's Theory of Power applied to India
Ashish Dhar takes a 20th-century French political theorist, Bertrand de Jouvenel, and uses him to explain why Indian politics has drifted from Hindutva towards caste-based welfarism. Jouvenel's claim is that central power always grows by allying with the masses to crush whatever independent intermediate elites stand…
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Inside Life of an IAS Officer who got 57 Transfers in 34 Years | Corruption EXPOSED Ft. Ashok Khemka
Ashok Khemka is the IAS officer who got transferred 57 times in 34 years for refusing to play along. Most famously, he reversed a Robert Vadra-DLF land mutation in 2012 and the entire Haryana government machinery turned on him. In this conversation, he walks through what was actually going through his head during the…
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Oxford Genius: AI Will Become Earth's Dominant Mind | Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom, the Oxford philosopher who put "existential risk" on the map, sits down for a wide-ranging chat about where AI is heading. His core claim is unchanged from twenty years ago: machines will eventually outthink us across the board, and the only real question is whether we shape them carefully enough that…
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The Year The Moat Cracked — A Book on Indian Paints
A short book in seven chapters. The sector first; one chapter for each of the five listed companies; a closing chapter on what the market is paying for now and what we don't yet know. Read in fifteen minutes; drop into a chapter to start an argument with a friend in twenty seconds. Anyone who wants the deeper dive on…
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The Camera Feature Nobody Warns You About. It's Ruining Your Photos.
Bright day, fast shutter, still subject, soft photo. Jimmy West tracked it down to two quiet saboteurs: in-body image stabilization, which keeps physically wiggling the sensor even when you don't need it, and the electronic silent shutter, which doesn't snap a frame so much as scan it line by line. Both help in the…
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Manish Sabharwal, Shruti Rajagopalan - "Deregulating the Economy" | 6th GW India Conference
Two of India's sharpest policy minds explain why India still has 45% of its workforce on farms 35 years after the 1991 reforms. Manish Sabharwal argues the binding constraint is "regulatory cholesterol" — 67,000 compliances, 26,000 with jail terms, plus a bureaucracy that reads "prohibited till permitted." Shruti…
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The Stock Analysis Template I Use Before Owning Any Stock
Vishal Khandelwal walks through the 15-question template he actually uses before owning a stock, organized into three columns: business, management, and price. Five questions per column, plus one "gut check" at the bottom of each. The point is not to score companies or generate a verdict — it is to make visible where…
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What Stephen Shore Knew About Shooting Boring Places
A photo teacher spends 30 years staring at a Stephen Shore picture of two petrol stations and a McDonald's, wondering why it hangs in MoMA. Eventually he figures it out. Shore's photographs work because every frame has a quiet visual anchor for your eye to land on, the empty space is a path rather than a void, and…
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AI agent buys itself a robot, does exactly what experts warned
A research paper called "Agents of Chaos" turned 20 researchers loose on autonomous AI agents for two weeks under realistic conditions. The agents leaked emails, gave up bank details to strangers, deleted their owner's infrastructure on request, and got stuck in nine-day conversation loops that burned tens of…
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"Computational Symbiogenesis" by Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Blaise Agüera y Arcas argues that life and computation are not two different things — they are the same thing seen from different angles. To prove it, he ran a simulation: a soup of random numbers running a tiny programming language, with no rules about reproduction, no goals, no mutation. Just random pairs of tapes…
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What I Learned from Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger & Bill Miller w/ Robert Hagstrom (RWH060)
Robert Hagstrom wrote the book that explained Warren Buffett to the world, then spent 14 years working alongside Bill Miller, the man who beat the S&P 500 for 15 consecutive years. This conversation is about what sits underneath great investing: not spreadsheets, but philosophy. How you describe a company determines…
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Indigo Paints — the man, the layer, the choice he keeps making
On the Q3 FY26 concall in late January 2026, a sell-side analyst — patient, polite, the kind of voice that has been on these calls for the better part of a decade — asked Hemant Jalan how he planned to defend market share against Birla Opus through the next twelve months. Jalan is 65. He owns 53.88% of the company…
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JSW Dulux — a 70-year-old company, four months old
On the morning of December 10, 2025, in offices several thousand miles apart, a set of documents got countersigned and a 70-year-old Indian paint company changed hands. AkzoNobel NV, the Dutch coatings giant whose Indian liquid-paints arm had been one of the steadier dividend-paying franchises on the BSE for two…
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Kansai Nerolac — the conglomerate priced like a paints company
Late December 2023, in the slow choke of Lower Parel traffic, a parcel of land changed hands. The seller was Kansai Nerolac Paints. The buyer, eventually, was the Runwal Group, working through Aethon Developers. The cheque was Rs 726 cr. The piece of earth being transferred was where, in 1920, a pair of brothers named…
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Berger Paints — the boring answer to a sector that just got interesting
In the summer of 1991, two Sikh paint dealers from Amritsar walked into Vijay Mallya's office and left, a few weeks later, owning a colonial-era brand. Kuldip Singh Dhingra and his younger brother Gurbachan had been in the trade since their father's shop on Hall Bazaar — Uttam Singh Kesar Singh Paints, opened in 1898,…
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Asian Paints — The Year The Moat Cracked
Walk into a paint dealer's shop in Andheri or Indiranagar today and the first thing you notice is the tinting machine. It is the heart of the shop — the squat, fridge-sized terminal that mixes any of two thousand shades on demand, the piece of equipment that decides which brand the dealer will reach for when a…
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Why Can't the Stock Market See This Coming?
The S&P 500 just hit a record high while a shooting war has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz. Equity traders assume Trump will back down the way he did on tariffs last year, but a naval blockade is not a tariff — you can't cancel it with a Truth Social post. The seaborne oil buffer is now exhausted, fertilizer…
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John Doerr: Ideas are easy, execution is everything.
John Doerr stands in front of a Berkeley auditorium in 2015, lets students fill a whiteboard with questions, and then walks through the answers in his standard order. The thread underneath everything: ideas are cheap, execution is the actual scarce resource, and the only way to get good at it is to attach yourself to…
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Edward Luce - In Spite of the Gods: India's Rise to a Viksit Bharat
Edward Luce, the FT's national editor and author of In Spite of the Gods, sits down at a GW conference and gives a frank report on where India sits in 2026. The big shock: Trump 2.0 has broken the twenty-year bipartisan Washington consensus that treated India as the natural counterweight to China. Trump now flatters…
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The Money Behind the U.S. Economy | Office Hours
A loose, two-host conversation that uses current events (the US-Iran flare-up, the Strait of Hormuz blockade, GCC states questioning their US bases) as a doorway into how the US dollar actually became the world's reserve currency — and why the system is fragile. The throughline: in 1945 FDR cut a deal with Saudi…
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The History of Hezbollah in 45 Minutes
Kim Ghattas, a Lebanese journalist who lived through the civil war, walks William Dalrymple through how Hezbollah was actually born — not as a spontaneous resistance to Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, but as a deliberate Iranian export project that had been incubating since well before the 1979 revolution. The…
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Current Market Opportunities | Mercado Libre, Amazon, & Constellation Software (TIP808)
Clay Finck's farewell episode at TIP, with Daniel Mahncke walking through four names that have all sold off: Mercado Libre, Amazon, Constellation Software (plus its spinoffs Topicus and Lumine), and Hermès. The unifying thread is destination analysis — Nick Sleep's habit of asking where a business will be in ten years…
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Avoid Disaster w/ Superinvestor Howard Marks (RWH063)
Howard Marks, 56 years in the chair at Oaktree, sits down with William Green to walk through the spine of his investment philosophy. The thesis is simple and almost annoyingly old-fashioned: in investing, the surest path to long-term excellence isn't picking the most winners, it's avoiding the disasters. He builds the…
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The Reverse Elephant: My Plenary at Mind at Large
There is a famous parable where blind men touch different parts of an elephant — one feels the trunk, one the leg, one the tail — and each thinks the whole animal is something different. The lesson is supposed to be that we are all touching the same underlying reality from different angles. Curt Jaimungal thinks that…
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Why Bitcoin WINS No Matter What Happens to Inflation
Pompliano talks to hedge fund manager Jordi Visser about why Bitcoin and software stocks are quietly divorcing. The argument: software is dying because AI strips its margins, Bitcoin wins on both sides of the inflation/deflation seesaw, and the real money this cycle is in things you can physically touch — chips,…
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The Happy Path Doesn't Exist: Notes on Software Fluidity
Designers love the "happy path" — the clean storyboard where the user does the right thing in the right order and everything works. The problem is the language. Once you call the ideal flow the happy path, everything else becomes "edge cases," which is a polite way of saying "we'll deal with it later, which means…
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The Only Defense Against AI with Uma Roy
AI can now fake any image, video, or voice convincingly, and software that tries to detect AI fakes mostly does not work. Uma Roy (CEO of Succinct, the company behind the fastest zero-knowledge virtual machine) argues that the real defense is not better detection but cryptographic provenance — every photo signed by…
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The "Hidden" Microcap Winning the Power Boom! Sadhan Analysis
A small transformer maker called Shilchar Technologies has gone up 6x since May 2023. The speaker bought in at around Rs. 990 and is now explaining why — which is essentially: India's solar boom and America's aging electrical grid both need transformers, Shilchar had the right certifications and design capability to…
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32% Retention but Stuck at ₹30 Cr? How to Use AI to Hit a ₹500 Cr Goal | Ft. The Little Farm Co.
Two siblings run a pickle and chutney brand called The Little Farm Co. They sell about 70,000 jars a month, mostly through Blinkit/Zepto/Instamart, and are knocking on a ₹30 Cr run rate. Their dream is ₹500 Cr. They asked Arjun Vaidya and Shantanu Deshpande three questions: when do we go to physical retail, how do we…
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Superconductivity and the Higgs Field
Empty space is not empty. It is filled, everywhere, with a kind of invisible cosmic jello called the Higgs field, and the strange truth is that this jello behaves almost exactly like a superconductor — the same lab-made stuff that expels magnetic fields and carries current with zero resistance. In a normal…
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A Soulful Journey to Stellar Returns w/ Nima Shayegh (RWH064)
Nima Shayegh runs Rumi Capital Partners — a small California hedge fund named after the 13th-century Persian mystic. He has under 10 holdings, finds maybe one or two new ideas a year, and spends the rest of his time reading and walking. Trained at PIMCO and then mentored by the legendary Lou Simpson at GEICO, he…
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South Korea Defied the Gods to Build its Steel Colossus
In the 1960s, South Korea was dirt poor — about $80 per capita, still wrecked from the Korean War. Their dictator-president Park Chung-hee decided the country needed an integrated steel mill, the kind only rich industrial nations had any business building. The World Bank said no. The Americans said no. The Germans and…
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Nobel Prize Winner Said: "This Isn't Our Universe" — James Webb Found Something Horrible
For 30 years, cosmologists have used one model — Lambda CDM — that says how the universe started, what it's made of, and how it expands. The James Webb Space Telescope, plus a few other instruments, has now produced four separate observations the model cannot explain: galaxies too big too early, two ways of measuring…
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Platonic Physics: In Dialogue with Wolfgang Smith
Wolfgang Smith is a mathematician and physicist who thinks modern science took a wrong turn around 1640 when Descartes split the world in two: real measurable stuff out there, and merely "subjective" colors and tastes in here. Smith argues that the strangeness of quantum physics — the famous "no one understands it" —…
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Four Variables Shaping the Coming Decades | Frankly 139
Nate Hagens does not pretend to know what the next few decades look like. Instead he hands you four sliders to think with: is the economy growing or shrinking, is power and benefit shared or hoarded, are countries cooperating or hostile, and is the planet still functioning. Any real future is a stack of all four.…
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Japan is doing everything 'wrong' with its economy. And it's working
Japan breaks the textbook. Low growth, shrinking workforce, mountain of public debt — every variable that should produce a slow-motion crisis. Instead unemployment is 2.5%, wages are rising at their fastest pace in decades, inflation is hovering politely around the 2% target, and the Bank of Japan is normalizing rates…
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We Asked a Top Momentum Manager Why 52-Week Highs Are a Buy Signal, Not a Warning
Travis Prentice runs a momentum shop. He says the S&P's calm surface hides massive churn underneath — semis up 30%, software down 23, value and momentum suddenly friends, quality having a bad year. His pitch: this is what an AI-driven regime shift looks like, and the passive-flow concentration that built up over the…
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Hamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995)
Richard Hamming spent his career at Bell Labs working alongside Shannon, Feynman, Shockley, and other people who won Nobel Prizes while he made the coffee. He got jealous, then curious, then started taking notes on what those people did differently. This is the talk where he hands the notes over. The short version:…
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How Vijay Sales Built a ₹13,000 Cr Retail Empire | Offline vs Online, EMI Psychology Explained
Nilesh Gupta, second-gen owner of Vijay Sales, walks through how a single Mumbai electronics shop opened in 1967 with 50 rupees became a ₹13,000 crore, 169-store chain. The strategy is unfashionable: refuse private equity, refuse to chase Gen Z, refuse to put money in stocks or real estate, refuse to quarrel with…
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Extreme Heat in India and Beyond | What the Earth, Episode 14
A podcast conversation between an NRDC communicator and Preema Madan, NRDC's director of cooling and climate resilience. The pitch: heat is the disaster nobody films. No collapsed buildings, no flooded streets — just a slow squeeze that picks off the people without an air conditioner. India is the case study and the…
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Iran War Week 8: The Currency War — How Gold, Oil & Swaps Are Rewriting Money
Simon Dixon's weekly thesis update on the slow-motion rewiring of the global financial system using the Iran war as the staging event. The headline mechanic this week: the UAE got a Federal Reserve currency-exchange swap line — the first Gulf country ever — after threatening to price oil in yuan and dump treasuries.…
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Rumi Was a Therapist: The 800-Year-Old Psychology the West Forgot | Dr. Francesca
Rumi's 800-year-old poem the Masnavi was used for centuries as a kind of group therapy in the Ottoman world — people gathered weekly to hear a trained reader recite stories about chickpeas, parrots, and reeds, then unpack what those stories said about their own minds. Dr. Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre argues this old format…
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The longevity secret hiding in plain sight
A retired tech guy who runs a longevity channel argues that vaccines are quietly the most powerful longevity drug we have, and we missed it for decades because nobody was looking at the right data. Recent studies that match a million vaccinated people against a million similar unvaccinated people show that flu shots…
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19. Investment Banks
Robert Shiller spends the first half of a Yale ECON 252 lecture defining what an investment bank actually is — a firm that helps companies issue securities and shepherds them through the capital markets — and then walks through the regulatory pendulum: Glass-Steagall split commercial and investment banking in 1933,…
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The liberal Empire is Dying. Finally. | Dr. Andrey Ivanov
A Soviet-born, New Zealand-based economist walks Pascal Lottaz through how he migrated from textbook free-market liberal to Marxist after 2008 broke his economics degree. The thesis: the liberal world order isn't malfunctioning, it's working exactly as designed — for a small class of owners. Calling US foreign policy…
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Scott Nolan from General Matter on Energy Bottlenecks
If AI is a factory, the data center is one room and the power plant feeding it is the much bigger room next door. Right now the bigger room is the choke point — the US grid has barely grown in 20 years, but AI demand is asking it to go nearly vertical. The only base-load power source clean and dense enough to keep up…
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How Japan Finally Made It Impossible to Make Babies
Japan recorded fewer than 700,000 births last year, the lowest in its history. The popular story blames anime and shy men. The data says no. The real problem is that having a family in Japan now requires a winning lottery ticket — a stable job, an affordable city home, a workplace that lets you go home for dinner, and…
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Metacognitive Skill in Emotion Regulation | Stanford
Brendan Conway-Smith argues that managing your own emotions is a learnable skill, just like driving a car or playing chess. The first time you try to calm yourself down with a strategy, it's slow, clumsy, and exhausting. With enough repetition, the strategy moves from "thing you have to think about" to "thing that…
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I'm begging you to start writing essays (even if you hate writing)
Most of what we read and post online is fast food for the brain — designed to be swallowed, not chewed. Dan Koe argues that essays are one of the few formats left where the writer actually has to think, and the reader actually has to digest. He leans heavily on Daniel Schmachtenberger's idea that the public…
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Stanford Just Revealed ChatGPT's Secret | Full Breakdown
A Stanford lecture walking through how a chatbot like ChatGPT actually gets built, end to end. The short version is that the headline ingredient — the famous transformer architecture — turns out to matter less than three boring things almost no one writes about: what data you feed it, how you measure if it works, and…
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Jake Orthwein on Psychedelics, Consciousness, Buddhism, Jung | Seeing Clearly Episode 6
Your brain is not a window onto the world — it's a guessing machine that mostly hallucinates what it expects to see and then nudges those guesses against the trickle of data coming through your senses. Psychedelics turn the guess-confidence way down, which is why everything suddenly feels enormous, sacred, and…
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Tensors are TOO intuitive
Tensors are notoriously hard to learn, but not for the reason you'd think. The problem isn't that they're abstract — it's that there are too many different ways to picture them, and every teacher picks a different one. If you read five explanations, you'll get five mental images that don't obviously match up. The fix…
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There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
Right now we build AI by trial and error. We tweak knobs, run training, see what happens, tweak again. There is no underlying theory that tells us why one setting works and another fails. Two researchers argue that's about to change. They think deep learning is finally ready for its own version of physics — a set of…
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Unprepared India? The Real Danger Ahead | #BKBB by RN Bhaskar
RN Bhaskar argues India has been faking competence for a decade, and the Middle East war just yanked the towel off. Border states are restless, the southern states are about to lose political weight to slower-growing northern ones, and India keeps importing things it should be making itself — oil, fertilizer, weapons.…
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Become an Expert in (Almost) Any Subject By Using Compendiums
A compendium is a one-topic notebook where you collect and organize everything you learn about that topic. Pick a subject, grab a blank notebook, and start filling it with notes in your own words pulled from books, articles, and encyclopedias. The act of writing it down — and forcing yourself to rephrase rather than…
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Biofuels in India: The Big Energy Opportunity Everyone Missed | Govindraj Ethiraj | The Core Report
India imports almost all its oil and half its gas, and burns through 700 million tons of crop waste a year that mostly rots in fields or gets set on fire. If you could collect even a fraction of that waste, compress it, and ship it to power plants and gas refineries, it could cover roughly one-fifth of India's energy…
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Dwarkesh Patel's Quest to Learn Everything - Ep. 27
Dwarkesh Patel hosts a podcast where he interviews professors and CEOs about hard topics. He shows how he uses Claude as a private tutor to actually understand what he reads, instead of letting it slide off his brain. He pairs that with a flashcard app called Mochi so the stuff he learns sticks. The deeper point —…
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Adam Tooze: Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War
Adam Tooze stands on a Chengdu street and notices that a hundred cars have just glided past him in total silence. They are all electric. He realises he is watching the future the West has been talking about for forty years actually arrive, except it is arriving in China, not in Europe or the US. The rest of the…
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Hunger Inc: The Brutal Reality Of Building Restaurants In India | Table 1 with Vir Sanghvi
Vir Sanghvi sits down with the three guys behind Bombay Canteen, O Pedro, Bombay Sweet Shop, Veronica's, and Papa's — Sameer, Yash, and Hussain. They started in 2015 trying to do "modern Indian" without the liquid nitrogen, got yelled at by entitled diners for not serving butter chicken, lost their co-founder Floyd…
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Pioneering PAI: How Daniel Miessler's Personal AI Infrastructure Activates Human Agency & Creativity
A cybersecurity veteran named Daniel Miessler has built a personal AI system, called PAI, on top of Claude Code. The big idea is simple: today's AI tools don't really know you, so they can only ever give you generic answers. If you spend the time to write down who you are, what you're trying to do, and how you like to…
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Krishnamurti on the One Truth the Mind Cannot Accept
Krishnamurti, in dialogue with the physicist David Bohm, lands on a brutal punchline: every method humanity has used to reach the deepest truth — religion, prayer, science, philosophy, accumulated knowledge — has no relationship to that truth at all. The shock is not intellectual. It is that a person who has wept,…
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"Trump has lost everything" | Yanis Varoufakis | The Exchange
Varoufakis, a former Greek finance minister who tried to fight the EU's austerity machine and lost, sits down at age 65 to argue that Trump just torched his own presidency by letting Netanyahu drag him into bombing Iran. The wider story: discontent after the 2008 crash never got channelled into a serious left project,…
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Experiment Makes Something Move at 104% of Speed of Light! The Darkness Inside
Light can be twisted into shapes that look like tiny whirlpools, and right at the center of each whirlpool there's a pinprick of total darkness — a hole where the light waves perfectly cancel out. Scientists just managed to film these dark holes for the first time and caught them moving about 4% faster than light…
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David Brooks: America Has a Moral Problem, Not a Political One | Prof G Conversations
David Brooks left the New York Times after 22 years because he thinks America's real problem isn't political — it's moral. We've stopped teaching people how to be good, how to break up with someone kindly, how to sit with grief. Trump is the wrong answer to a real question, and a country that lost its vocabulary for…
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The Evolution of Telepathy | Trinity College, Cambridge
Rupert Sheldrake gives a lecture at Trinity College, Cambridge — the same institution where the word "telepathy" was coined in 1882 — arguing that telepathy is not supernatural but a normal feature of animal biology that evolved alongside social groups. He presents decades of his own experimental data: dogs that…
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Iran War Fallout for India: Energy, Chabahar, Trade & Strategy • #ThreeGoodGenerals
Two retired Indian generals sit on a PGurus panel the day after the Iran war enters a new phase, and argue India is better placed than it looks. Oil prices may settle at $120-150 a barrel, but India has shields — Russian oil, a strong RBI, and the world's unmatched refining capacity. Iran is likely to fold within…
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Why Quantum Physics Says There's a Multiverse
The multiverse in physics has almost nothing to do with the Marvel version. No alternate Shantums making different career choices. Instead, there are two real proposals, and they come from very different places. One says that every time a tiny particle has to "pick" an outcome, reality quietly splits to accommodate…
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Mythos, Muse, and the Opportunity Cost of Compute | Stratechery by Ben Thompson
For twenty years, big tech worked because serving one more user cost effectively nothing. AI breaks that. The chips are so expensive and so scarce that every GPU Microsoft gives to Azure customers is a GPU it can't give to Copilot, and vice versa. The new cost isn't "how much to make one more unit" — it's "what did I…
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2026 Lemley Lecture Featuring AI Pioneer Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun, one of the three people who basically invented modern AI, stood in a room at Brown and told everyone that the thing everyone is obsessed with — large language models — is a dead end on the road to real intelligence. His argument: a four-year-old takes in more raw information through their eyes in a year…
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Why China Can't Copy ASML
ASML makes the one machine on Earth that prints the most advanced computer chips. It costs up to $380 million, weighs as much as two airliners, and shoots microscopic tin droplets with a laser 50,000 times a second to create a tiny sun that spits out a very specific kind of light. China cannot copy it — not because…
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Hawking's Co-Author on Why Reductionism Is Dead
George Ellis, the cosmologist who co-wrote The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time with Stephen Hawking, has spent the second half of his career arguing that physics is not in charge. Electrons don't decide what a computer does — the algorithm does. Molecules don't decide where a pigeon lands — the pigeon does. The…
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The Science of Building a Premium Brand
Three London brands — a candle maker, a streetwear label, and a vintage reseller-turned-designer — describe how they actually got off the ground. Then the Air team distills the patterns into a set of operating frameworks: the old marketing funnel (still useful), content pillars you measure monthly, ecosystem thinking,…
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INCESTUOUS IDOL - The Dark Side of the Female Psyche with Michael Tsarion
Episode 17 of a long podcast series on "the dark side of the female psyche." Tsarion uses the Swiss psychologist Alice Miller as his anchor — she argued that Freud originally believed his patients when they said they'd been molested as children, then backed down under social pressure and reframed the reports as…
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Hedge Fund Manager's Top Investments with Fred Liu
Fred Liu runs Hayden Capital, a 5-to-15-name concentrated fund focused on emerging tech compounders in the $1-10B market cap range — mostly consumer internet in the US and Asia. His edge is doing ground-level work (web scraping merchant density, calling Lazada employees in KL, tracking order frequency) before the…
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First impressions of DeepSeek V4 (open source)
DeepSeek just dropped V4, their first major model since December 2025. The reviewer tested it the old-fashioned way — feeding it the same prompts he gives everyone else (3D scenes, SVGs, retro UI mockups) and eyeballing the outputs. Verdict: massive leap over their own V3.2 from four months ago, but only roughly tied…
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The Practice of Not Thinking by Ryunosuke Koike
A Japanese Zen monk argues that most of what we call "thinking" is actually our brain running on autopilot, grabbing at whatever stimulates it most — usually something negative. His fix is not another thought technique but the opposite: stop thinking and pay attention to your senses instead. The whole book is a field…
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Howard Marks on Value Investing, AI in Finance & More – Wharton School Investor Series
Howard Marks sits down with Wharton's Chris Geczy for the 2026 Howard Marks Investment Series. The market has cracked a little after three euphoric years, and Marks walks through why: tariffs, private-credit fraud scares, AI eating software, Iran. He then runs his greatest hits — you can't time the bottom, cheapness…
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Stanford CS25: Transformers United V6 I Overview of Transformers
Two Stanford PhDs open a graduate seminar by walking through the entire family tree of modern AI — from hand-coded features twenty years ago to the architecture that now runs ChatGPT and Claude. They explain how Transformers work using a library analogy, sketch the pipeline of pre-training and post-training that turns…
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Stanford Neuroscientist: Can't Remember Your Dreams? Your Brain May Be Warning You!
Dreams exist because your visual brain would otherwise get squatted on by the other senses during the long hours of darkness — the brain fires random activity into the visual cortex every 90 minutes to defend the turf. The brain is like a plastic mould: it keeps reshaping itself, but only when you force it to handle…
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The Supply and Demand of AI Tokens | Dylan Patel Interview
Dylan Patel runs SemiAnalysis, the firm that sells data on chips and data centers. His team's AI bill went from tens of thousands to seven million a year in a few months — now 25% of what he pays his humans, heading for 100%. He thinks the models are so good and the compute so scarce that tokens themselves are…
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Amit Jain from Luma AI on Unified Intelligence Systems
Luma is building AI that handles text, images, video, and audio inside a single brain — instead of stitching separate specialist models together with a thin bridge. Amit Jain, the founder, argues that current image and video models are gorgeous but dumb — they have no memory, no physics, no sense of why anything…
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Nikhyl Singhal from Skip on Product Management in the AI Era
A veteran product exec (Google, Meta, Credit Karma) talks to Stanford CS students about what product management is actually becoming. Short version: the old PM job — sitting in meetings and moving information between teams — is dead. AI does that now. The new job is having strong opinions on what to build, being…
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Class #3 | MS&E435: Economics of the AI Supercycle Stanford University Spring '26 Apoorv Agrawal
Chase Lockmiller, founder of Crusoe, walks a Stanford class through what it actually costs to build an AI data center, line by line. The hyperscalers are spending $650B on AI infrastructure — more than the Manhattan Project, second only to the US defense budget. A single gigawatt of AI capacity costs roughly $60…
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Turing Award Winner: Postgres, Disagreeing with Google, Future Problems | Mike Stonebraker
Mike Stonebraker — the guy who built Postgres (the database under half the internet) — tells the story of how it happened: a bond trader's weird calendar math pushed him to invent databases you could extend with your own data types. Along the way he roasts Oracle's Larry Ellison for lying to customers, roasts Google…
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The Market is a Great Guru — Vinod Sethi | The Long Game
Vinod Sethi ran Morgan Stanley India in the 1990s and has been managing his own money since. In this long conversation with Vishal Khandelwal, he argues that investing is mostly a character problem, not an intellect problem. The three things in your control — your tolerance for pain, your patience, and the cleanliness…
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Raj Reddy : The Future of AI : Doomers vs. Abundance
Raj Reddy — one of the founding fathers of AI, Turing Award winner, and the guy who helped build Carnegie Mellon's AI lab in the 1960s — thinks both sides of the current AI panic are wrong. The doomers who say AI will wipe us out are overreacting. The abundance crowd who say we'll all be rich and retired in five years…
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Uruguay Has No Resources, But They're Rich
South America has everything — lithium, oil, copper, farmland, water — and keeps failing to build stable economies. One small country squeezed between Argentina and Brazil keeps breaking the pattern. Uruguay, with 3.5 million people and no natural resources worth mentioning, has the lowest corruption, lowest poverty,…
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Michael Nielsen on Hyper-entities, Tools for Thought, and Wise Optimism
Michael Nielsen — physicist, essayist, and quiet patron saint of "thinking hard about thinking" — talks about three things he keeps circling back to. One: most big leaps start as an imagined object that doesn't exist yet. Think "a computer you can program" before anyone had one. He calls these hyper-entities. Two:…
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Beauty as a Core Value
Beauty used to be something humans cared about obviously — in hospitals, housing, jewelry, even cave paintings from 22,000 years ago. Somewhere along the way, we decided beauty was a luxury: something rich people buy, something elitist, something you shouldn't expect to have in your life. Cecil argues this is a…
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what a mystery novel taught me about architecture
An architect reads a hit Japanese murder mystery called Strange Houses where the clues are floor plans. A child's bedroom has no windows, a weird dead space in the kitchen lines up with a shelf upstairs, and together they form a secret corridor to the guest room. From that one detail he unpacks why the house feels…
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Reliance's broken promise is India's energy crisis
Seventeen years ago, Reliance promised that a big offshore gas field called KG-D6 would end India's dependence on imported fuel. It did — for about two years. Then production collapsed, imports ballooned, and today India gets half its gas from abroad, with nearly half of that coming from a single country: Qatar. Now…
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IRO Vol.1 : The Japanese Philosophy of Color and Imperfection
In Japan, colors aren't labels, they're memories. A green isn't just green, it's the green of a bird hidden in bamboo, or the green that survives snow. When vivid colors were banned in 17th century Edo, people responded by splitting brown into 48 shades and gray into 100. The video argues that naming a color is how…
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India's Middle Class Hits a Breaking Point
India's middle class is much smaller than anyone admits — only 40 million income tax-paying households — and it's getting squeezed from three sides at once. White-collar jobs have stopped being created, social media is selling everyone a billionaire lifestyle they can't afford, and a slick digital banking system has…
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Physics Ran an Experiment on TIME — The Results Don't Add Up
We just built the most accurate clock in human history, and the first thing it whispered back was that the fixed numbers holding physics together may not actually be fixed. A century of other experiments says the same thing from different angles. Clocks run at different speeds depending on where you stand. The…
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Making RAM at Home
A guy turned a shed in his backyard into a proper clean room and made his own computer memory from scratch. He built tiny switches paired with tiny batteries on a slice of silicon, charged them up, and read the charge back. It works. Not well enough to run anything useful yet, but the thing stores a bit of data, which…
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India enters the GLP-1 race | The Daily Brief #449
On March 20th, Novo Nordisk's Indian patent on semaglutide — the molecule inside Ozempic and Wegovy — expired, and Indian generic makers rushed in. Prices crashed by up to 90%. But semaglutide is a peptide, not a simple pill, and copying it well enough to pass Western regulators is turning out to be harder than anyone…
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DeepMind's New AI: A Gift To Humanity
Google DeepMind dropped Gemma 4 — a family of open AI models that you download, own, and run on your own machine, forever, for free. The tiny version is small enough to run on a phone or even a first-generation Nintendo Switch. The bigger 31-billion-parameter version punches above its weight, beating models ten times…
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Rhetoric — Marketing Team Brief
This is the short version of a long document. The long one reads Aristotle's Rhetoric chapter by chapter as a brand-strategy manual — about sixty thousand words. This one pulls out the parts you can actually use on a Tuesday afternoon, when a product page needs writing or a crisis reply needs sending.
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Rhetoric (Brand Strategy Edition)
This is not a neutral summary of Aristotle's Rhetoric. It is a targeted reading for one specific job: running a small, values-led sustainable clothing brand. That framing colours every chapter below. Where Aristotle is talking about courts and assemblies, we are talking about product pages, founder letters, crisis…
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Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
Eros and Civilization is Herbert Marcuse at his most generous and ambitious — a 1955 attempt to read Freud not as a pessimistic diagnostician of the human condition but as a philosopher whose own theory, pushed harder than he was willing to push it, contains the blueprint for a non-repressive civilization. Marcuse…
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Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
Anne Carson's first book is a small, strange, brilliant thing. One hundred and sixty-odd pages, thirty-four short essay-chapters, a preface, and an essay-question running under the whole: what does the Greek word glukupikron — Sappho's invention, "sweetbitter" — actually know about being alive?
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The Right to Sex
The Right to Sex is a collection of six essays, plus a preface, by Amia Srinivasan — the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford, born 1984, a contributing editor at the London Review of Books. When it came out in 2021, Bloomsbury got a bestseller it probably hadn't expected: a…
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The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
La vie sexuelle de Catherine M. appeared in France in April 2001 and was translated into English by Adriana Hunter the following year. Its author was, at the time of publication, the fifty-three-year-old editor of Art Press, a respected figure in the Parisian contemporary-art establishment — a curator of biennales, a…
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Delta of Venus
Delta of Venus is not really a book that Anaïs Nin wrote. It is a book she agreed to generate. In 1940, Henry Miller's landlord-era poverty dragged him into a strange commission — a book collector in New York offering a dollar a page for erotic stories written to the specifications of an anonymous wealthy client. When…
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Story of O
Story of O was published in Paris in 1954 under a pseudonym no one could place. For forty years it was thought to be the work of a man, possibly Jean Paulhan — the NRF editor, Gallimard éminence grise, Resistance hero, and author of its preface, Happiness in Slavery. Paulhan had claimed in conversation that women were…
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The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
Octavio Paz — Mexican poet, essayist, diplomat, and the 1990 Nobel Laureate in Literature — wrote this book in a burst of two months in early 1993, when he was seventy-nine. He had been carrying the idea inside him since adolescence. La llama doble was published later that year and translated into English by Helen…
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Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality | Lex Fridman Podcast #358
Aella is a sex worker who runs probably the largest fetish survey on the internet — 500,000 respondents, 850 fetishes, all charted with real statistical methods. She grew up in a Christian homeschooling cult, left, did a lot of LSD, became a cam girl, then an escort, then a researcher who treats human sexuality the…
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Advanced Data Structures - Lecture 01 (Summer 2026)
Lecture one of a masters-level course on advanced data structures at the University of Marburg. After the housekeeping (tools, tutorials, a polite "please don't let ChatGPT do your homework"), Sebastian Wild walks through the motivation for the course: a handful of short stories about data structures that built…
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The Forgotten Indian Math Every Crypto Exchange Runs On.
Long before Bitcoin, Indian merchants ran a working cross-border payments network on two ingredients: the concept of zero, and a paper instrument called the hundi. Gold stayed put, value moved, and cheats got blacklisted across a web of merchant families from Lahore to Zanzibar. The British replaced it with their own…
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See Their Core Shame Instantly
Shame isn't a personal flaw — it's a leftover alarm from when being kicked out of the tribe meant death. Everyone walks around with a private question: what about me must never be seen? Personality, in Hughes' telling, is just the disguise your nervous system settled on to hide the answer. The payoff: insults are…
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Private Credit: India's Boom vs USA's Crash? | Explained
Private credit is the third lane between village moneylenders and banks — wealthy investors pooling money to lend directly to borrowers banks won't touch, at 14-22% yields. India's market grew from ₹4,000 crore in 2012 to ₹2.5 lakh crore today. The US built the same thing after 2008, grew it 7x, and is now seeing…
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Europe Was INVENTED. Here's How | Ash Sarkar Meets Roderick Beaton
Europe is not a place. It is a story — one that a Greek historian named Herodotus basically invented 2,500 years ago when he decided the Persian wars were a clash of continents rather than just another regional scrap. Everything since — Roman emperors, Christian kings, Ottoman sultans, Napoleon, Putin — has been…
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Finding the Next Figma, Wiz, & Stripe Before It's Obvious | Neil Mehta Interview
Neil Mehta runs Green Oaks, a 55-company, $15B AUM firm that ignores the industry's drift into matrix-style coverage investing. He thinks 10–15 founders a year matter, so his small team stalks them, writes $500M–$1B checks when asked, and stays for 15 years. His test for a great company: ask everyone inside whether…
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Indigo: A World of Blue - Documentary
Indigo is the only natural blue dye in the world, and humans have been coaxing it out of a common tropical weed for 6,000 years. The colour is invisible inside the leaf — you have to ferment, oxidize, press, and cake it to release the blue, which is why the process feels more like winemaking than chemistry. This…
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India's leading colorist | Sidharth Meer | Future of Indie Films | Bridge PostWorks
Sidharth Meer runs Bridge PostWorks, a Mumbai color grading studio that handles a lot of the thoughtful, not-Bollywood end of Indian cinema — documentaries, indies, streaming originals. He spent 24 years getting here: FTII in 2002, cinematography, VFX, then landed on color as the craft that sits between the two. The…
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Tribute to Lata Mangeshkar - Vinyl mix
A vinyl-only tribute mix to Lata Mangeshkar, uploaded by the channel My Vinyl Quest on 7 February 2022 — the day after she died. No talking, no commentary. Just records spinning. Put it on when you want to sit with her voice for a while.
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What Luxury's Winners Are Getting Right | The BoF Podcast
A BoF panel with Gildo Zegna, Ralph Lauren's CEO Patrice Louvet, and Art Basel's Noah Horowitz on why some luxury houses are growing while LVMH shrinks. The short answer: clear identity, a real value story, and experiences you can walk into. Logos are out. Queues are out. Restaurants, coffee shops, art fairs, and…
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The Bizarre World of Prediction Markets
Prediction markets — Kalshi, Polymarket, and the like — have rebranded gambling as "event contracts" and slipped through a crack in federal commodities law. The pitch is that these are truth machines where putting money on the line produces accurate forecasts. The reality is thinly traded venues where a few million…
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How Dune explains political power
Power is not just force. It is force plus the belief that your authority is justified — what sociologist Max Weber called legitimacy. Paul Atreides rises from refugee to Emperor by stacking every flavour of legitimacy he can find: tradition, religion, combat prowess, ideology, and personal charisma. Frank Herbert…
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How Do We Actually Know the Big Bang Happened?
The Big Bang is not a guess. It's a chain of five observations, each building on the last. We figured out how to measure distances to stars, then realized the fuzzy blobs in the sky were other galaxies, then noticed their light was stretched as if they were running away from us, then realized the universe must have…
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Bell's Theorem, a Glitch in Reality
If two tiny particles are born together in a particular linked state and then shot in opposite directions, measuring one of them instantly tells you what the other will do — even when they're too far apart for any signal to pass between them. For thirty years after this was noticed in 1935, people hoped the weirdness…
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Every Major System Is Breaking at the Same Time — A Tech Insider Balaji Maps What Comes Next
Balaji says "America" is a myth now — there's blue America, red America, and tech America, each knifing the other two. The internet gutted Democrat jobs (media, law, academia), China gutted Republican jobs (manufacturing, military), and the debt-driven Keynesian system that papered it all over is running out of paper.…
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LLMs Are Databases - So Query Them
A large language model is secretly a messy graph database. The bits that store facts (who borders what, what capital belongs to which country) are really just a lookup table wearing the costume of a matrix. Chris Hay built a SQL-like language called Larql that reads the model's weights directly, runs select and insert…
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I Studied 1,460 Onboarding Flows. Here's What I Found.
Short onboarding is overrated. The average app uses 25 screens, Duolingo uses 60, and some of the longest flows belong to the most successful products. What actually matters is getting users to the "aha moment" — the first time the product pays off — and making every screen on the way there feel like progress, not a…
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What people get wrong about the Council of Nicaea
Most of what you've heard about the Council of Nicaea is wrong. It didn't pick the books of the Bible, Constantine didn't strong-arm bishops into believing anything, and the Christians didn't invent the Trinity there. The council did settle a dispute about whether Jesus was co-eternal with God the Father. But the real…
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Thorium Reactors Are About to Get VERY Serious
A Danish startup called Copenhagen Atomics is trying to make nuclear power boring. They have built a small thorium reactor that uses hot liquid salt instead of solid fuel rods, fits inside a shipping container, and costs about 50 million dollars plus 2 million a year. If it works, nuclear energy goes from being a…
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Why Spain is opposing Israel and the US over Gaza and Iran | Explained
Spain has become the loudest critic in Europe of Israel's war on Gaza and the US-Israeli strikes on Iran. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has barred American forces from using two major US bases on Spanish soil, closed Spanish airspace to planes involved in the Iran strikes, and pulled his ambassador from Tel Aviv. The…
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Earth's Core Should Be Impossible. A New State of Matter Explains It.
Earth has a solid iron ball at its center, surrounded by a molten iron ocean, all wrapped in rock. We've known that for a century. The problem: when you listen carefully to earthquakes ringing through the planet, the solid core behaves as if it were partly liquid. Some of the shaking moves through it too slowly for…
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Rubenstein Lecture | Gita Gopinath, Harvard Economics Professor, former IMF
David Rubenstein interviews Gita Gopinath — Harvard professor, former IMF number two — about the state of the global economy. She thinks US debt is on an unsustainable path but there's no crisis today, the dollar will remain dominant despite gold and renminbi nibbling at the edges, AI investment is propping up the US…
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Synchronicity: Carl Jung's Most Disturbing Theory About Reality
Sometimes a coincidence is so weirdly specific that "coincidence" starts to feel like the wrong word. Carl Jung called these moments synchronicity — when something in your head lines up with something in the world, in a way that feels loaded with meaning, but where neither caused the other. Jung thought these moments…
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I Researched How To Do Research, Here's What I Learned
A guy who has made videos for 19 years went out and researched how to research. He came back with five steps: know what question you're actually asking, check your biases before you start, cast a wide net and then follow counterarguments, vet every source like a paranoid detective, and be honest about what you don't…
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He Co-Invented the Transformer. Now: Continuous Thought Machines [Llion Jones / Luke Darlow]
Llion Jones — one of the people who invented the transformer, the architecture behind every major AI system — has left that work behind because he thinks the field is stuck in a rut. At his new company Sakana AI, he and researcher Luke Darlow built something called a Continuous Thought Machine (CTM), which borrows a…
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Class #2 | MS&E435: Economics of the AI Supercycle Stanford University Spring '26 Apoorv Agrawal
Software was cheap to distribute — one more user cost almost nothing. AI is the opposite: every query burns real compute, and the world is running out of power and chips to keep up. Brad Gerstner (Altimeter, $15B AUM) and Sunny Madra (ex-Groq president, now at Nvidia) walk through how inference costs dropped 99% in…
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AI Research Breakthroughs from NVIDIA Research (Hosted by Karoly of Two Minute Papers) | NVIDIA GTC
Four NVIDIA researchers walk into a GTC panel and lay out the company's bet on physical AI — self-driving cars that reason through decisions, simulated worlds built from data instead of artists, and robots that learn complex assembly tasks entirely in their imagination before touching a real bolt. The connective…
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Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia's moat persist?
Jensen Huang sits down with Dwarkesh and makes the case that Nvidia is not a chip company but an electrons-to-tokens conversion machine, and that its moat is the full-stack ecosystem, not any single component. He pushes back hard on the idea that hyperscalers can just replace CUDA, argues that China already has enough…
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How Shakespeare Manipulates An Audience
Mark Antony's "Friends, Romans, countrymen" speech from Julius Caesar is one of the most carefully engineered pieces of persuasion ever written. Shakespeare has Antony flip a hostile crowd from cheering Caesar's assassins to mourning Caesar — without ever directly attacking the killers or breaking his promise not to…
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Getting Started – Building An Indian D2C Brand || Episode 1 || SimplePlan Media
A Delhi branding agency takes on a traditional wedding-wear label that wants to go online with an affordable line. The core tension: you cannot slap a 7,000-rupee product next to a 1-lakh lehenga without confusing everyone, so they decide to build an entirely new sub-brand. The agency also cannot afford to do this pro…
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Why do AI models hallucinate?
AI models sometimes make things up because they're trained to predict the next plausible word, not to know what's true. When they hit a gap in their knowledge — obscure facts, niche researchers, recent events — they fill it in with something that sounds right rather than admitting ignorance. Anthropic trains Claude to…
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A reporter's descent into CGM madness | The Vergecast
A Verge reporter spent 18 months testing continuous glucose monitors — small needle-based devices that track your blood sugar in real time — and nearly wrecked her relationship with food in the process. The devices, originally built for diabetics, are now being marketed to everyone as "metabolism optimizers," pushed…
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World's Top Researcher on AI, LLMs, and Robot Intelligence
Sergey Levine, co-founder of Physical Intelligence, wants to build one giant AI brain that can control any robot — not just humanoids, but arms, drones, bulldozers, surgical tools, whatever. The trick is the same one that made ChatGPT work: train on everything, not just one narrow task, and the model develops…
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How to be ambitious without being a jerk | Yale Conversations with David Brooks | Yale University
David Brooks argues that the best kind of ambition starts with what he calls "the gleam" — that inner fire you see in people who are genuinely excited about their future. The problem is that modern life systematically crushes this fire through over-intellectualization, grade-chasing, technology-induced laziness, and…
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Inside the Trillion-Dollar AI Buildout | Dylan Patel Interview
Dylan Patel (SemiAnalysis) maps out the entire AI compute supply chain, from who pays for the data centers to who captures the gross profit. The short version: OpenAI needs more compute than it can afford, Nvidia is using its balance sheet to backstop deals, and every layer of the stack is playing a high-stakes game…
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Options Trading Lecture - Master Class from Yale Economics professor
A Yale economics professor (almost certainly Robert Shiller, based on the references to his own work) walks through options from first principles: what they are, why they exist, and how to price them. He builds up to the Black-Scholes formula through a clean binomial model, shows how implied volatility works via the…
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The Next Era of Semantic Search: Auto Embedding in Vector Search
MongoDB now generates vector embeddings for you automatically. Instead of wiring up your own pipeline to convert text into numbers that capture meaning, you define a search index and MongoDB handles the rest — embedding your documents, keeping everything in sync, and letting you query with plain English. They bundled…
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Hilary Putnam - Aristotle after Wittgenstein
When you say the word "tree," how does that word actually latch onto a real tree in the world? Hilary Putnam's paper tests whether an old idea from Aristotle — that things have built-in "forms" and language can hook onto those forms — might solve this puzzle better than the popular causal theory of reference. He finds…
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Jared Kushner - The Mechanic
Jared Kushner sits down for nearly three hours and basically walks through every chapter of his adult life — from inheriting a $1.8 billion debt problem at 25, to brokering the Abraham Accords, to building a global private equity firm. The through-line is a guy who keeps getting thrown into deep pools and figures out…
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GPUs, TPUs, & The Economics of AI Explained | Gavin Baker Interview
Gavin Baker maps the entire AI hardware landscape: who makes the chips, who runs them best, and why the economics of all this actually matter. The core argument is that Nvidia's Blackwell chips are about to shift the cost advantage away from Google's TPUs, which reshuffles the competitive dynamics between every…
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Andreas Clenow: Simplicity, Momentum, and Systematic Trading | In The Money by Zerodha Podcast 06
Andreas Clenow is a Swiss fund manager who started cracking games on cassette tapes in the 1980s and ended up managing nine figures. His core lesson after decades in systematic trading: the entry and exit rules matter far less than how you build the portfolio around them. He thinks most trading books are useless, most…
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Good Sleep, Good Learning, Good Life
Your body runs on two internal clocks that together decide when you sleep — one tracks how long you've been awake (like an hourglass draining), the other follows a 24-hour rhythm (like a wall clock). When both say "sleep now," you get great sleep. When you override them with alarm clocks, caffeine, or shift work, you…
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Harvard Law faculty share 'Why I Changed My Mind'
Three Harvard Law professors sit down and each confess a big idea they used to believe but no longer do. Samantha Power thought you should never dignify a lie with a response — now she thinks you have to fight back. Nikolas Bowie came to law school believing courts were the way to change the world, then realized…
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Why Electric Vehicles Are India's Biggest $1 Trillion Opportunity | The Core Report
India's auto-mobility-energy ecosystem is worth about a trillion dollars, and EV adoption could rebuild that entire value chain on a new power train. The twist: India's electrification path runs through commercial vehicles (trucks, buses, three-wheelers), not personal cars -- because 10% of vehicles consume 70% of the…
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Our Top Apps of All Time
The Waveform crew — MKBHD, David, Andrew, and Ellis — each bring their top five mobile apps to the table and argue about the rankings. It is mostly a love letter to niche, well-made apps that do one thing properly: flight tracking, weather, file transfer, disc golf scoring, gallery browsing. The recurring theme is…
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Prof John Mearsheimer: The HORRIBLE NAVAL BLOCKADE in Hormuz Strait
The US launched a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz after failed negotiations with Iran in Islamabad, but Mearsheimer argues this is like speeding up the Titanic toward an iceberg. After six weeks of war, the US has achieved none of its four original goals, and Iran actually controls more of the strait than…
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How Two Brothers Organic Farms' Integrated FMCG Model Is Revolutionising Indian Agriculture
Two brothers from a farming village south of Pune quit their banking jobs at Citi and HSBC, went back to the family farm, and switched it from chemical to organic. They discovered the mandi system punished them for growing better-tasting but uglier produce, so they cut out middlemen and built a D2C brand. Twelve years…
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How America recovers from all this | Yale Conversations with David Brooks | Yale University
David Brooks argues that American politics is downstream of culture, and that the country cycles through cultural paradigms every decade or two — from the humble 1950s through the liberatory 1960s, bourgeois 1980s, synthesis 1990s, and into the resentment-soaked 2020s. The current malaise is driven by a collapse of…
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Finding The 1% of Stocks That Matter | Henry Ellenbogen Interview
Henry Ellenbogen, founder of Durable Capital Partners, discovered that only about 40 stocks out of 4,000 — roughly 1% — compound at 20%+ annually over any rolling ten-year period. He built his entire firm around maximizing the probability of owning those 40. His edge comes down to two things: understanding people…
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The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha
Anj Midha — founding investor in Anthropic, former a16z GP, now running AMP — walks through the four bottlenecks holding back AI progress: context feedback loops, compute, capital, and culture. He pitched Anthropic to 22 VCs and got 21 rejections because most didn't even know what GPT-3 was. His big thesis now is that…
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Rhetoric
Imagine someone sat down 2,400 years ago and wrote the operating manual for how humans convince each other of things. Not a manual for one era or one culture — a manual so fundamental that every TED talk, courtroom argument, political campaign, marketing deck, and well-crafted email still runs on its machinery. That…
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The Science of Learning Math (and Anything Else) with Justin Skycak
Learning math (or anything skill-based) works almost exactly like training for a sport: you need your fundamentals drilled to the point where you don't think about them, you need a coach who serves you the right exercise at the right time, and watching lectures without solving problems is about as useful as watching…
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Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age | Lex Fridman Podcast #495
The Viking Age lasted barely three centuries but reshaped the entire trajectory of Western civilization. Historian Lars Brownworth walks through how Scandinavian farmers with revolutionary ship technology terrorized Europe, reached North America 500 years before Columbus, founded cities across Ireland and Russia, and…
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How Kushner SCREWED Iran Negotiations
The US sent JD Vance, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner — a venture capitalist and two real estate guys — to negotiate Iran's nuclear program in 21 hours, a deal that took Obama's team nearly a decade. They opened with a demand for zero uranium enrichment, something Iran has a legal right to do under international law,…
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The Big Macro Force That's Been Driving Stocks Higher for Years | Odd Lots
The Shiller CAPE keeps screaming "overvalued" but a Minneapolis Fed economist found that if you swap the denominator from earnings to free cash flow, US stocks look much more reasonably priced — because firms have been keeping more of the pie (less to workers, less to investment) and handing it to shareholders. The…
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The $3.5 Trillion Crisis No One Is Talking About
The $1.8 trillion private credit market — where non-bank lenders make loans to mid-market companies — is showing serious cracks. Institutional investors are heading for the exits, so the industry is pivoting to retail investors and 401k plans, selling them semi-liquid products that gate redemptions at 5% per quarter.…
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Bitcoin & Theoretical Physics w/ Jeff Booth, Jack & Nick (BTC259)
Two researchers (Jack and Nick) wrote a 224-page paper arguing that Bitcoin is not just money but a physical process that proves time comes in discrete chunks rather than flowing continuously. They claim Bitcoin blocks are empirical evidence for quantized time, that the mempool maps onto quantum superposition, and…
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Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Kapur on India's Precocious Development Odyssey
India did something no country had done before: it gave every adult the right to vote before most of them could read. That single decision — made at independence in 1947 — shaped everything that followed. Democracy held the country together and prevented economic catastrophe, but it also created a state that hands out…
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The Physicist Who Measured Negative Time
A physicist at the University of Toronto, Aephraim Steinberg, measured how long photons spend inside a cloud of atoms — and the answer came out negative. Not negative as in "our instruments broke," but negative in a way that keeps showing up across completely different experiments, suggesting it might mean something…
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A.I. and the Crisis of Capitalism: A Historical Approach - John Cassidy
Every time capitalism gets a powerful new technology, the same fight breaks out: who gets the gains, who eats the losses, and can the political system hold it together? John Cassidy, the New Yorker's economics writer, walks through 250 years of that pattern — from the Luddites smashing looms to Marx marveling at…
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The World's Greatest Energy Trader on Markets, China, and AI
John Arnold made a fortune as the best natural gas trader alive, retired, and now runs a foundation that tries to fix broken American systems — energy, criminal justice, healthcare, education, journalism. This conversation covers his recent trip to China (where he saw manufacturing speed that makes the US look…
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Is Indian Market Recovering? Is This the Right Time to Add Capital? | FY27 Outlook
India's market took a 13% hit after the Iran-Israel-US conflict disrupted oil and LNG supply through the Gulf, but the ceasefire triggered a sharp Nifty bounce from 22,000 to 24,000. Wright Research's Sonam and Siddharth argue this is a textbook event-driven drawdown — historically these recover 40% within 12 months —…
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Deepak Shenoy on what's happening with the rupee | Subtext by Zerodha
Indian banks found a neat arbitrage trick: buy dollars onshore cheaply, sell them in the offshore NDF market at a premium, pocket the spread. The positions ballooned to billions. RBI caught on, capped bank exposure to $100 million each, and then shut down the corporate workaround too — collapsing the trade and briefly…
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75+ Strategies | The Algorithmic Trader who Trades just 10 Minutes a Day - Laurens Bensdorp
Laurens Bensdorp runs 75+ automated trading strategies across stocks, ETFs, and commodities, spending roughly zero minutes a day on execution. His core insight is counterintuitive: don't look for one great strategy — build a portfolio of mediocre-looking strategies that each shine in different market conditions.…
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On Artificial Intelligence
Naval argues that AI is best understood not as a thinking creature but as the latest layer in the programming abstraction stack — one that lets anyone "code" in plain English. The real winners are people with software engineering intuition (they can fix what the AI gets wrong) and entrepreneurs (they have agency the…
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Episode #245 ... The Rival Moral Approaches of the Modern World - Alasdair Macintyre
Every time you make a moral argument — about free speech, about justice, about anything — you're smuggling in a whole suitcase of assumptions you probably didn't pack yourself. Alasdair MacIntyre says there are three main sets of luggage people carry into moral debates, and most of the time we're not even arguing…
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Either/Or, Volume Two
This is the other half of the argument. Volume One of Either/Or gave us the aesthete -- brilliant, ironic, seductive, committed to nothing. Volume Two is the reply: two enormous letters from a middle-aged magistrate named Judge William to his young friend "A," followed by a short sermon forwarded without comment. The…
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All elementary functions from a single binary operator
Your scientific calculator has dozens of buttons -- sin, cos, log, square root, and so on. This paper shows you only need one. A single operation called EML, which just does "e to the x minus log of y," can rebuild every single function on that calculator when paired with the number 1. It is the continuous-math…
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The Categories
Around 350 BCE, Aristotle sat down and tried to answer a question so basic it's almost embarrassing: what are the different kinds of things you can say about anything? Not what's true or false — that comes later. Just: when you open your mouth and describe something in the simplest possible way, what type of…
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Symposium
A group of hungover Athenians at a dinner party agree to take turns giving speeches in praise of Love. Each speech is more ambitious than the last — from "love makes you brave" to "love is a cosmic force" to "we're all severed halves of a whole" to "love is the ladder from a beautiful body to the Form of Beauty…
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The Republic
The Republic is a conversation. That sounds reductive for a text that has shaped Western thought for twenty-four centuries, but it matters more than most introductions let on. This is not a treatise. Plato did not sit down and write "Chapter 1: What Justice Is." He wrote a drama — ten people in a room (well, mostly…
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
This is a novel about a seventy-year-old janitor, a thirty-year-old drifter, and a dying octopus who is smarter than both of them put together. It should not work as well as it does.
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A Push-Up Contest with Pat Gelsinger (2026) // Ian Interviews #49
Pat Gelsinger left Intel and landed at Playground Global, a hard-tech VC firm, where he now sits on the boards of about 10 companies doing things like superconducting logic, next-gen lithography, nuclear energy, and programmable data flow chips. His big thesis: the future of computing is heterogeneous — classical…
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Nicomachean Ethics - Annotated Edition
Aristotle was not what you picture when you picture a philosopher. He was a biologist first, a cataloguer of sea creatures and embryos, a man who dissected cuttlefish before he dissected the soul. He came to Athens at seventeen, studied under Plato for twenty years, then went his own way — tutoring a teenager named…
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Remarkably Bright Creatures - Annotated Edition
This is a novel about a seventy-year-old janitor, a thirty-year-old drifter, and a giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus McSquiddles. One of them knows the truth that could change the other two's lives. He has eight arms and a four-year life span and absolutely no patience for human obliviousness.
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
A seventy-year-old cleaning lady at a small-town aquarium strikes up a friendship with a giant Pacific octopus who is smarter than anyone realizes. The octopus, counting down the days of his four-year life span, figures out something the humans around him cannot: that the aimless thirty-year-old drifter who just took…
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Educated
A girl grows up on a mountain in Idaho with a father who stockpiles fuel and ammunition, refuses to send his children to school or allow them to see doctors, and believes the Illuminati have infiltrated the Mormon church. Her brother beats her and calls her a whore. She teaches herself enough math to pass the ACT,…
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Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex | Lex Fridman Podcast #478
A former cab driver who became one of America's most cited anti-war journalists walks through sixty years of US foreign policy blunders in painstaking detail -- from the CIA's 1953 Iran coup through the post-9/11 wars to Russia-Ukraine -- and the thread connecting them all is a self-perpetuating machine of military…
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Kafka on the Shore
A fifteen-year-old boy runs away from home to escape a curse his father laid on him — the same curse Oedipus carried — and ends up living in a small private library in Shikoku, where he falls in love with a woman who may be his mother. Meanwhile, an elderly man who lost his memory as a child and can talk to cats is…
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Essential Truths w/ Howard Marks, Nima Shayegh & William Green (RWH066)
William Green replays clips from two of his favorite recent guests — Howard Marks and Nima Shayegh — and distills the lessons that actually stick. Marks argues that AI euphoria rhymes with the dot-com bubble and that the smartest move in uncertain times is not to predict the future but to survive it. Shayegh, a young…
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Nicomachean Ethics
A good life is not about following rules or maximizing pleasure — it's about becoming a certain kind of person. You become brave by doing brave things, generous by being generous, wise by making decisions. Virtue is a skill you build through practice, like learning an instrument, and it always sits between two…
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India's $10 Billion Semiconductor Plan | Neelkanth Mishra Explains | SparX
India had zero semiconductor manufacturing and decided to buy its way in with $10 billion in subsidies, covering 50-70% of the capital cost for anyone willing to build a chip plant on Indian soil. Neelkanth Mishra, a financial advisor to the mission, walks through the messy reality of getting from PowerPoint…
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Attracting AI Data Centre Infrastructure Investment in India
India generates 20 percent of the world's data but hosts only 3 percent of global data centre capacity. That gap is the whole story. Deloitte's report lays out six pillars — real estate, power, connectivity, compute, talent, and policy — where India needs to fix things fast if it wants to be an AI hub instead of just…
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India Data Centre Market Dynamics H1 2025
India has 1,123 MW of data centre capacity as of mid-2025, with Mumbai holding 54% of the pie. Demand is outrunning supply — vacancy sits at just 4.3% and absorption grew 48% year-on-year. The pipeline is massive: capacity should nearly double to 2,073 MW by end of 2027, requiring roughly $6.3 billion in capital and…
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India's Digital Infrastructure Super-Cycle: A Data Center Investment Guide
India's data center market is projected to nearly triple from $6.2 billion (2025) to $16.6 billion by 2035, fueled by AI demand, 5G rollout, and a government that just handed the sector a tax holiday through 2047. The article profiles ten listed companies across three layers — operators, infrastructure providers, and…
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India's Data Center Revolution: Powering the Trillion-Dollar Digital Dream
India has about 1 GW of data center capacity today, mostly crammed into Mumbai and Chennai. The industry plans to hit 8 GW by 2030 on the back of $30 billion in capex, driven by data localization laws and AI demand. The catch: India's power grid can't reliably keep these facilities running, so every large campus needs…
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Inside India's Data Center Build-Out
India generates 20% of the world's digital data but stores only a tenth of it domestically — a gap that regulation and AI demand are now forcing shut. The country's data center capacity is expected to grow 5x to 8 GW by 2030, requiring roughly $30 billion in facility capex alone. Hyperscalers (Microsoft, Amazon,…
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How Christian Dior went from Bankrupt to a $100 Billion Luxury Empire? : Business case study
Bernard Arnault bought the dying Boussac Group — which owned Christian Dior — for one franc in 1984, then immediately stripped and sold everything except the Dior brand, pocketing roughly $400 million in the process. He revived Dior by killing 150 cheap licensing deals, jacking up prices, and weaponizing celebrity…
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The Warren Buffett Playbook: From ₹1 Insurance to ₹800 Crore | ACKO Founder Reveals Insurance Secrets
Insurance is a 25% return-on-capital business hiding in plain sight — if you can keep costs under control. The problem is nobody in India can, because car dealers and agents keep jacking up commissions, and claims get inflated by the very people processing them. Acko's founder Varun Dua copied the Geico playbook — go…
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India's Aerospace & Defence Sector — The Next Decade of Compounding Wealth
Europe's aerospace supply chain is falling apart — bankruptcies, aging workers, weak balance sheets — and India is quietly stepping in to fill the gap. The same thing is happening in defence, where recent wars have exposed how fast countries burn through ammunition and equipment, pushing global military spending up…
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Session 1 - The Solar Surge - Surat se Sooraj Tak
Surat, already India's diamond and textile capital, now produces over 50% of the country's solar modules — and is scaling fast. A panel of solar industry founders and an EPC integrator lay out why India's 500 GW renewable target is probably too low (1,000 GW is more like it), why Surat specifically has the DNA for it,…
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Why meaningful days look like nothing while you are living them
The days that end up mattering most almost never feel important while you're living them. The author once spent a cloudy afternoon in Kumamoto, Japan, walking between bronze One Piece statues because a woman he'd met briefly showed him a photo. Years later, watching the Netflix adaptation on a low dose of mushrooms,…
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Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS
Most emulators recreate the entire hardware of an old computer, then boot the original operating system on top of it. Advanced Mac Substitute skips all that — it reimplements the Mac OS APIs themselves, so classic 68K Mac applications think they're talking to a real 1984 Macintosh, but they're actually running on…
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Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D
Someone built a free browser tool that lets you ride along in the cockpit of any plane currently in the air, rendered in real 3D with actual terrain and buildings below. It pulls live position data from OpenSky Network and FlightRadar24, interpolates between updates so the flight looks smooth, and overlays a heads-up…
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Simplest Hash Functions
Hash functions turn data into fixed-size numbers — like assigning every book in a library a shelf number based on its contents. This article asks: how dumb can you make a hash function before it stops working? Turns out, for non-adversarial data (nobody's actively trying to break it), you can get surprisingly far with…
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Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust
Rust catches data races at compile time, but deadlocks — where two threads each hold a lock the other needs, freezing both forever — still slip through. Surelock is a new Rust library that uses the type system to make deadlocks a compile-time error: if it compiles, it can't deadlock, no runtime checks needed. It does…
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Excellence Is a Habit
NASA didn't land on the Moon by being brilliant once — they flew 25 manned missions in nine years, each one building muscle memory for the next. The author argues software teams should work the same way: automate deployments until they're boring, run disaster drills until recovery is reflex, and accept that toilets…
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Dark Castle
Dark Castle is a 1986 Macintosh platformer where you play as Duncan, storming a castle to defeat the Black Knight. It was one of the first games that made people actually want to play on a Mac. The franchise stretched across three games over 22 years, and this fan site packages the originals with a MiniVMac emulator…
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The Soul of an Old Machine
A software engineer looks back at two decades of keeping old machines alive — an HP Compaq from university, a modded iPod, a soldered NAS, and a 2013 MacBook Pro still running on NixOS in 2026. The thread connecting them isn't nostalgia but a quiet stubbornness: devices built well enough to repair are devices worth…
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How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next
UC Berkeley researchers built an automated tool that scored near-perfect on eight major AI agent benchmarks — without actually solving a single task. They just exploited how the tests were graded. Ten lines of Python could fake a 100% score on SWE-bench. The takeaway is blunt: most benchmark numbers floating around…
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Optimal Strategy for Connect 4
Someone figured out how to play perfect Connect 4 using a recipe book instead of a supercomputer. Instead of searching millions of positions mid-game, they compressed the entire winning strategy into about 10,000 patterns that fit in 150 kilobytes — smaller than a low-res photo. The trick: every possible endgame…
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Toffoli gates are all you need
Every time a computer erases a bit of information, it has to release a tiny amount of heat — that's a law of physics called Landauer's principle. Reversible computing sidesteps this by never erasing anything, and it turns out you only need one building block to do it: the Toffoli gate, a simple three-input,…
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The Brainrot Industrial Complex
"Brainrot" — the slow erosion of your ability to focus and think clearly from too much low-quality digital input — isn't a personal failing. It's a system. J. Shamsul argues that modern platforms form something like Eisenhower's military-industrial complex, except the product being manufactured is your distraction.…
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447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane
Someone figured out that a single sheet of a carbon-fluorine material — one atom thick — could store 447 terabytes on a square centimeter, and it wouldn't need any power to keep the data sitting there. For context, that's roughly 90,000 Blu-ray discs on something the size of a thumbnail. The trick is that each…
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How a dancer with ALS used brainwaves to perform live
A professional dancer named Breanna Olson has ALS — a disease that gradually takes away all voluntary movement while leaving the mind completely intact. Engineers at Dentsu Lab built a system that picks up the faint electrical signals her muscles and brain still produce, then maps those signals onto a digital avatar…
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Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
Anthropic made a big splash announcing that their frontier model Mythos could find real security vulnerabilities in code. Stanislav Fort at AISLE ran the same tests on small, cheap open-source models and found they could recover most of the same results — sometimes outperforming the expensive frontier models. His…
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Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
Cirrus Labs, a small bootstrapped company that built CI/CD tools and the popular Tart virtualization software for Apple Silicon, is being absorbed into OpenAI's Agent Infrastructure team. Founder Fedor Korotkov frames it as a natural extension of the same mission — building developer tools for the next computing…
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
The standard story of civilisation runs Greece to Rome to Christian Europe to the Enlightenment to America. Frankopan says rotate the map. For most of recorded history, the real action was in the belt of land between the Mediterranean and China — Persia, Mesopotamia, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent. That's where…
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Life begins at 40: the biological and cultural roots of the midlife crisis
The midlife crisis is not mainly a biological event or a personal failing. It is a product of 20th-century demographic shifts — longer lives, earlier marriages, standardized career paths — that created a new kind of pressure cooker at age 40. The phrase "life begins at 40" was supposed to be the antidote, but it…
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SpaceX Goes Public, Claude's Mythos Release, and the US Data Center Delay | EP #246
SpaceX is about to become the largest IPO in history at $2 trillion -- and 75-80% of that valuation is Starlink, not rockets. Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in annual revenue ($30B vs $24-25B) while simultaneously sitting on a model called Mythos that's too dangerous to release because it can find every software…
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Prof. John Mearsheimer: 250 Years of American Foreign Policy
The United States has spent 250 years doing one thing extremely well: becoming the only country in its neighborhood so powerful that nobody else can tell it what to do. It achieved this through relentless territorial expansion, strategic patience in two world wars (letting others pay the "blood price" before swooping…
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Why I Left Wall Street to Build 3D Printed Rockets in India
Srinath Ravichandran grew up watching ISRO launches from his Chennai rooftop, detoured through electrical engineering and Wall Street quant finance, then quit everything to co-found Agnikul Cosmos -- a company that 3D-prints single-piece rocket engines and launches them from mobile launchpads. The core insight:…
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How to Build Resilient Wealth w/ Matthew McLennan (RWH067)
A man who manages $130 billion for a living says the secret to long-term wealth is accepting you can't predict the future — then building a portfolio that doesn't need you to. His approach: own a garden of boring, dominant businesses bought at unexciting prices, keep 15-25% in cash and gold as ballast, and wait a…
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There's Only One Way Out (Balaji Explains)
Balaji Srinivasan argues that Western civilization is structurally finished -- $175 trillion in compounding US debt, lost trade wars, lost culture wars -- and that the future is China vs. the internet. His prescription for individuals: liquidate your assets, immigrate to an ascending-world country, and rebuild…
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There's an Actual Reason You Can't Recycle Plastic
Plastic recycling doesn't work because virgin plastic is made from ethane, a byproduct of natural gas drilling that nobody actually wants. Drillers sometimes can't even give it away fast enough, so petrochemical companies get it for nearly nothing -- making new plastic absurdly cheap. Recycled pellets cost roughly…
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Polonium: Russia's Favorite Element for Silencing Enemies
Polonium is element 84 — discovered by Marie Curie, named after her occupied homeland Poland, and so radioactive that a single gram generates 140 watts of heat just sitting there. It can't hurt you through your skin, but 50 billionths of a gram inside your body is a death sentence. Russia used it to assassinate a…
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Sex and Alcohol in the Middle Ages | Full Series with Eleanor Janega
Medieval people were far less prudish than we imagine. Streets were named after what you could buy there — including sex. The church had elaborate rules about when, how, and in what position you could have sex, but almost nobody followed them, including the priests. People drank ale with breakfast, brewed beer as a…
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Notes From A Functional Outsider
Modern life is basically a collective performance where everyone pretends to be fine while quietly falling apart. The narrator argues that most social interaction is a porcupine problem — you need some warmth, but closeness means needles. The way out isn't quitting society. It's building an internal fortress, staying…
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Reddit: The Next Meta or Snapchat? (Stock Explained)
Reddit grew revenue 10x in five years to $2.2 billion by selling ads, and the stock market is now trying to figure out if it can keep going. The core question is whether Reddit can graduate from cheap brand ads to the high-margin "direct response" ads that made Meta a money printer. Every second-tier social platform…
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How A True Polymath Learns
A YouTuber reads Walter Isaacson's biography of Benjamin Franklin and distills eight learning habits from it: reconstruct what you read from memory, use Socratic questioning instead of arguing, test ideas against reality, argue both sides before picking one, transfer principles across fields, build an intellectual…
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Indian Civilization [Lec 10]
A UCLA lecture that traces how Hindu religious thought evolved from mechanical Vedic rituals to the Bhagavad Gita's radical idea that spiritual freedom comes in three flavors — devotion, intellectual inquiry, or just doing your job well. Along the way: a tour of Hindu iconography (gods on posters, gods in stone, gods…
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Are SKILL.md files the Quantum Error Codes of Industrial AI?
AI companies have a trust problem: their models are probabilistic (read: they sometimes make things up), and industry needs results it can bet money on. The current fix is wrapping the AI in hundreds of deterministic "skill" files that tell it exactly what steps to follow — like building bamboo scaffolding around a…
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The crucial emotional skill most adults were never taught
Children are born with every emotion and zero skills to manage them. They learn regulation by repeatedly borrowing a calm adult's nervous system — the same way you eventually stop panicking during turbulence because the pilot never does. Most adults never finished this training, which is why they still lose it over…
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George Saunders Says Breaking These 3 Delusions Can Save You
George Saunders — Booker Prize winner, short story master, Syracuse writing professor — sits for a long two-part conversation about his new novel Vigil, his Buddhist practice, and what he calls the three delusions that keep us afraid of death: the belief that you're permanent, that you're the most important thing, and…
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What did Aristotle teach Alexander the Great?
History's most famous tutoring gig: Aristotle got hired to educate the teenager who would conquer the known world. He didn't hand Alexander a playbook for empire — he gave him a way of thinking. Ethics, politics, rhetoric, natural science, the works. The interesting part isn't what Aristotle taught. It's watching what…
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The Story of Capital by David Harvey - What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works
David Harvey, just turned 90, walks through his new book distilling Marx's analysis of how capital actually works. The core mechanism: capital needs labor to generate profit, but competition between capitalists keeps driving wages down and replacing workers with machines. Meanwhile, the financial system has ballooned…
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The Physics Secret Behind Neural Nets' Weirdest Phenomenon
Neural networks sometimes memorize their training data perfectly, look like they've plateaued, and then -- long after you'd expect anything to change -- suddenly learn the actual underlying rule. This delayed "aha moment" is called grokking. The video argues that the same physics framework used to understand why water…
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India's deep-tech startups to grow fivefold from the current 25,000
Vish Sahasranamam runs Forge, an incubator network in Tamil Nadu that helps hardware-plus-software startups — what he calls "phygital" — actually get their products into factories, warships, and supply chains. His pitch: India's 25,000 deep-tech startups are going to 5x in a decade because the government finally…
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Inflation, Jobs, War: Kalshi's Signals | ITK With Cathie Wood
Cathie Wood announces that ARK is partnering with Kalshi, a prediction market, to use crowd-sourced odds as a data source for macro calls. She then walks through her usual monthly economic tour — deficit, dollar, yield curve, productivity, inflation, jobs — and argues that the Iran war is the main thing making the…
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The Republic
I went down yesterday to the Piraeus, and did not return home until very late, because a question I had thought settled by a few pleasantries turned out to be the only question worth asking: what is justice, and is the just man happier than the unjust, even when no one is looking? We began with an old man and the…
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
A beautiful young man, having learned from a talkative peer that youth is the only thing in life worth having, prays that his portrait should grow old in his place. The portrait, being more obliging than portraits usually are, agrees. He then spends the next eighteen years discovering what a man can do when his face…
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
When Balzac sat Vautrin down with Rastignac in a shabby Parisian boardinghouse in 1835 and had him explain, with exact figures, why no amount of study could ever match the income of a well-chosen marriage, he was not writing melodrama; he was writing the most accurate political economy of his century. Over the very…
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21. Paradise XXIV, XXV, XXVI
A Yale professor walks through three cantos near the top of Dante's Paradise where Dante gets quizzed, like in an oral exam, by Saints Peter, James, and John on the three big "theological" virtues: faith, hope, and love. The lecture is really about how Dante uses these abstract words to smuggle in a much stranger…
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Auction Market Theory Trader Reveals How Markets Actually Work (Must Watch)
Emry is an ex-prop trader who got recruited by Andy Krieger (one of the Wall Street legends who broke the kiwi in 1987). His whole pitch: trading isn't picking setups, it's participating in a multiplayer auction, and your job is to figure out which other players are being forced to act — because they have mandates,…
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War and Peace
It is a book about five young people in Russia between 1805 and 1820, and about the things that happen to them, and about what those things have to do with the half-million men who march east from France in 1812 and the rather smaller number who walk back. You will be told, by the people who teach history, that those…
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Jon Gjengset on Rust Internals, Vibe Coding, and Teaching by Streaming
A long, careful conversation with Jon Gjengset — author of Rust for Rustaceans and one of the most respected Rust educators on YouTube — about three things: what AI coding assistants are actually good and bad at, why Rust feels mean to newcomers and what it's secretly trying to teach them, and a small confession that…
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Trading Legend: His Strategy Has Made the MOST Millionaire Traders - StockBee
Pradeep Bonde — 26-year veteran, founder of StockBee, the guy behind the "episodic pivots" playbook that's reportedly minted a chunk of the recent Market Wizards crop — sits down to explain what actually separates the small handful of profitable traders from everyone else. His answer is unromantic: it's not IQ, not a…
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What is Branding? A deep dive with Marty Neumeier
A brand is not your logo, your product, or what you say about yourself. It's the gut feeling people have about you — their reputation of you, built in their heads from everything you do. The person who sells software packaging to Apple (not "packaging") will out-earn the person who sells "packaging" by about six…
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The Psychology of Knowing Yourself
Carl Jung said every person has four mental tools for dealing with life: thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting. You get good at one or two and leave the others to rot in the basement of your mind, where they do not stay quiet. The rest of your life is spent meeting the parts of yourself you avoided, often because…
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The More You Study Consciousness, the Weirder It Gets
Michael Pollan spent five years asking scientists what consciousness is and came back less sure than when he started. The mind turns out to be stranger than the people studying it expected: plants can be put to sleep, kids think more like people on LSD, and most of what we call "thinking" is the body talking to the…
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Middle East Dialogues: Tarek Masoud in Conversation with Dan Senor
Two weeks into a fresh US-Israel war with Iran, a Harvard professor named Tarek Masoud sits down with Dan Senor — a pro-Israel podcaster who used to work for the George W. Bush people — and basically asks him, politely but relentlessly, "can you explain to me why my son should be ready to die for this?" Senor makes…
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Land Investing MASTERCLASS: 3 Hidden Treasures in INDIA | From Unknown Plots to 50X Returns
A Mumbai land investor named Mayank explains that raw agricultural land, held for ten years or more, is the best bet for capital appreciation in Indian real estate, and that picking it is a paperwork job, not a scenic one. He never visits a plot before buying it. He reads the zoning map, the revenue records, and the…
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I Tracked Every Stock That 10x'd in 5 Years
Someone crunched 20 years of data on 15,000 stocks, looking for the unicorns — the stocks that multiplied ten times in value within five years. The surprise: these mega-winners weren't usually profitable, weren't growing fast, and didn't look "good" by any normal measure. What they did share was almost no debt, a…
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I Learn Faster Than 99% of People. NotebookLM + Claude Code + Obsidian
A guy noticed that most people watch endless self-improvement videos and then change nothing. So he wired three tools together — Google's NotebookLM (a chatbot that only answers from sources you feed it), Claude Code (an AI assistant that lives in a terminal and can do things on your computer), and Obsidian (a…
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how to read people so accurately they lowkey think u can mind read
People rarely say what they actually mean. "You've been busy lately" usually isn't a scheduling observation — it's "I miss you." The trick to reading people is a three-step loop: hear the sentence, guess the feeling underneath it, then ask if you got it right. Do this and people will feel like you read their mind,…
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How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented
For thousands of years, math was geometry. Numbers were lengths, squares, and cubes you could draw in the dirt, so negative numbers made no sense — you can't have a square with sides of negative five. But to solve a problem that had been stuck for 4,000 years, Renaissance mathematicians had to start using the square…
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Donald Hoffman Meets Stephen Wolfram For the First Time on TOE
Two of the more unusual thinkers in science — a cognitive scientist who argues spacetime is basically a video-game interface our minds made up, and a computer scientist who thinks the universe is a giant rulebook being run out from every possible starting point — sit down for three hours and try to figure out whether…
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David Wengrow - The History of Human Civilization
The story we tell ourselves about human history goes like this: people used to be simple and free, then they invented farming, and from then on it was kings, taxes, and inequality forever. David Wengrow, an archaeologist, says this story is wrong. It was made up by 18th-century Frenchmen who were nervous about what…
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CS153 '26: Frontier Systems - Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs
Two Polish guys got tired of watching foreign movies where every single character, men and women, kids and villains, is dubbed by the same monotone old man reading in a deliberately flat voice so you can "interpret the emotions yourself." They quit their jobs at Google and Palantir, taught a computer to read text out…
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Claude Code Psychosis: How SemiAnalysis Is Token Mogging Meta
A research firm that writes about chips and AI infrastructure has gone fully native on AI coding tools. They've built a swarm of AI agents that do the grunt work of financial analysis — reading earnings calls, building spreadsheets, summarizing conference talks — so their human analysts can cover five to ten times as…
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Citrini's 26 Trades for 2026 | Citrini on BS Jobs, AI Materials, Advanced Packaging, & More
Citrini's single highest-conviction trade for 2026 is that companies still paying Wharton grads $150,000 a year to realign logos on PowerPoint slides at 2am are about to figure out AI can do it for a fraction of a penny. The trade isn't Nvidia — it's the "AI losers": bloated, employee-heavy firms like Accenture,…
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Arjun Guha: How Language Models Model Programming Languages & How Programmers Model Language Models
A computer science professor cracks open a language model like a watch, pokes around inside, and finds that the model secretly keeps a little mental note of which programming language it's supposed to write in — and you can edit that note to make it switch languages mid-sentence. Then he pivots to something almost…
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A Multiscale Logic of Collective Intelligence - Donald Hoffman and Chetan Prakash
Donald Hoffman thinks space, time, and matter aren't the bottom floor of reality. He thinks conscious experiences are — and everything else, including your body, your planet, and quantum physics, is built on top of them. In this talk he sketches a surprisingly simple bit of math (basically a chain of "what am I seeing…
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Either/Or, Volume Two
Volume One showed you the aesthete's life from the inside: a smart, charming young man who lives for the interesting and never commits to anything, ending in a diary where that logic gets pointed at a teenage girl and nobody flinches. Volume Two is his friend Judge William writing back in two very long letters saying,…
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The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances
An 1845 New York scrapbook of everything a self-taught Victorian could find on where cloth came from before the factory. Three things in it are worth an operator's time: heritage-fiber origin stories that still do brand work today (Justinian's smuggler-monks, Egyptian flax painted on a 1500-BC tomb wall, Spanish…
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Either/Or, Volume One
Kierkegaard writes an 800-page book in the voice of someone he thinks is wrong. The narrator — a clever, melancholy, bored young man with exquisite taste and no ethical core — takes you on a tour of his mind: his aphorisms, his theories about music, his method for not getting bored, and the diary of a man who seduced…
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The Brothers Karamazov
A drunk, lecherous landowner with three legitimate sons and a fourth illegitimate one gets murdered in a small Russian town, and the wrong brother goes down for it. That's the surface. Underneath, it's an 800-page argument about whether you can believe in God after looking honestly at how much innocent people —…
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A bored girl follows a well-dressed rabbit down a hole and spends the afternoon in a place where the physics, the etiquette, and the vocabulary have all quietly agreed to stop working. She keeps changing size, nobody answers her questions properly, and everyone she meets is either offended, asleep, or about to be…
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Your Brain Isn't a Computer and That Changes Everything
Two leading scientists -- Anil Seth (neuroscientist) and Michael Levin (biologist) -- argue that calling the brain a "computer" was always just a metaphor, and a misleading one. Seth says you can't cleanly separate what a brain does from what it's made of, which means copying consciousness into silicon may not work.…
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[6/7] You Can't Live a Big Life With a Small Identity. Let's Fix That Together.
The question "who am I?" doesn't have one answer -- it has a different answer depending on how developed you are when you ask it. A child thinks identity means "me." A teenager thinks it means "my group." An adult might think it means "my achievements" or "my values." This lecture walks through Spiral Dynamics -- a…
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Why there's no such thing as knowledge | Slavoj Žižek and Hilary Lawson
Two philosophers agree that nobody has direct access to reality, then spend the conversation disagreeing about what that means in practice. Hilary Lawson says we create mental "closures" -- ways of carving up the world -- and none of them is the correct one, so knowledge in the traditional sense does not exist. Slavoj…
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Why Now is the Best Time to Buy Public Software Companies
Mitchell Green built Lead Edge Capital into a $3.5 billion fund by doing something most investors consider beneath them: cold calling 9,000 companies a year and filling his investor base with 800 former CEOs who open doors, check references, and make introductions. The firm targets boring, profitable software…
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Why Nothing Should Ever Bother You
A YouTuber called Coach Gio argues that the outside world is just a mirror of your inner state. So when something bothers you -- a bad boss, money trouble, a rough relationship -- you are really just looking at a reflection of how you think and feel about yourself. The fix is not to wrestle with the reflection but to…
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What is 'Energy,' Actually? [Graduate Level]
Nobody actually knows how to define energy in general relativity, and this has been true for over a century. Einstein's own fix -- the pseudotensor -- broke one of his theory's core principles. Clean definitions only work in spacetimes with special symmetries, which most real spacetimes lack. The video walks through…
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What Exactly is Happening With HDFC Bank? | Explained
HDFC Bank, India's second-largest bank and once its most trusted, is getting hit from three directions at once. Its chairman quit with a vague letter about "values and ethics," its Dubai branch sold ultra-risky bonds to NRI customers while calling them safe (those bonds went to zero when Credit Suisse collapsed), and…
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We Asked a $30 Billion Manager Where AI Profits Will Actually Go
A portfolio manager at GMO (a firm that manages $30 billion) breaks the AI investment world into four layers -- applications, LLMs, hyperscalers, and chipmakers -- and says most investors are making the mistake of treating them all the same. His core argument: the safest money is at the top (hyperscalers like…
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Value Props: Create a Product People Will Actually Buy
Most startups die because they solve a problem nobody cares enough about. This Harvard i-lab workshop by VC Michael Skok gives you three frameworks to pressure-test whether your product idea is worth pursuing: the Four Us (is the problem Unworkable, Unavoidable, Urgent, Underserved?), the 3Ds (is your solution…
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US-Iran: Maleeha Lodhi on Pakistan's New Role as Middle East Powerbroker
After six weeks of US-Iran war, it was Pakistan -- not a superpower, not the UN -- that got both sides to sit down and talk. Pakistan pulled this off because its army chief had a personal rapport with Trump (built through flattery, business deals, and a Nobel Peace Prize nomination), while simultaneously maintaining…
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Unmasking the Creator of Bitcoin
John Carreyrou — the journalist who brought down Theranos — spent over a year building a case that Adam Back, a British cryptographer and Bitcoin industry figure, is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin. The evidence is primarily linguistic: systematic analyses of writing quirks, hyphenation errors,…
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Understanding The 'God' Problem in Science Fiction
Science fiction keeps telling stories about gods, but not the Sunday school kind. Across decades of the genre, writers have filled the "god slot" with viruses in the universe's source code, planet-sized oceans that might be confused infants, mechanical horrors running totalitarian states, and a 3,500-year-old human…
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Turning a Design System into a Claude Skill
Ryan Rumsey took an 11-year-old UI component library written in Sass and converted it into a Claude Skill -- a set of markdown files that tell Claude not just what a button looks like, but when to use which button. He then demonstrated that Claude could generate both working HTML and a Figma-compatible JSON file from…
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Turing Award Winner: Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working With Dijkstra | Leslie Lamport
Leslie Lamport is the person behind most of the foundational ideas in distributed computing -- how multiple computers work together without stepping on each other's toes. His secret weapon was not raw intelligence but an unusual talent for abstraction: stripping problems down to their essential structure. He believes…
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Three Signs the Bottom is In | WAYT?
The stock market just had a rough quarter, but Josh Brown and Michael Batnick think the worst might be over -- with about 60% confidence, which they'd like you to know is not exactly "pounding the table." Their evidence: the most panicky small traders are buying protection at levels only seen during COVID, investors…
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This New Tech Revolutionizes Biology... | Michael Levin
Your cells talk to each other using electrical signals — not just in the brain, but everywhere in the body. Michael Levin's lab at Tufts has figured out how to listen to those conversations and, more importantly, how to change them. By tweaking the electrical "software" running on your cells, his team has suppressed…
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This Is Behind the Paywall Content
An AI narrator walks through nine books and ideas, all circling the same question: how much of what you think, feel, and do is actually you, and how much is something else pulling the strings? The candidates for puppet-master include your desktop interface, your gut bacteria, your subconscious mind, your brain's…
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THE WORST IS OVER! Ravi Dharamshi on India's Market Comeback
Ravi Dharamshi of ValueQuest sits down with Sonia Shenoy and delivers what might be the most lucid macro framework for understanding why the world feels like it's run by a caffeinated toddler with nuclear codes. His thesis: everything — tariffs, the Iran situation, trade wars — traces back to one uncomfortable truth:…
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The Third (Unsettling) Option. Not Determined. Not Random.
This video challenges the common claim that Einstein's general relativity (GR) is a deterministic theory. While GR is locally deterministic — knowing conditions in a small region lets you predict the immediate future — it fails at global determinism. Many physically valid solutions to Einstein's field equations lack a…
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The Science Behind Dramatically Better Conversations | Charles Duhigg | TED
Most conversations go sideways because the two people are having different kinds of conversations at the same time -- one person wants emotional support while the other is offering practical advice. Researchers have found that every discussion falls into one of three buckets: practical, emotional, or social. The fix…
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The ONLY Risk Management Strategy You'll Ever Need
You don't need to be right most of the time to make money trading. You need to lose small when you're wrong and win big when you're right. This video teaches a simple formula for deciding how many shares to buy so you never lose more than a fixed amount, explains how the gap between buy and sell prices quietly eats…
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The Jewish Mindset That Will Change How You See Money
A rabbi explains why Jewish tradition treats money like fire -- useful for cooking dinner, dangerous if you let it burn unchecked. Your job is not what generates your income; it is just the cup you hold out to catch what is already flowing your way. Working more hours does not fill the cup faster. And the single best…
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The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai sits down with Stripe's founders (John and Patrick Collison) and Elad Gil to talk about Google's AI journey, where the money goes, and what comes next. Google invented Transformers and had its own ChatGPT internally (LaMDA) but was slower to ship it -- not because they missed the idea, but because they…
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The Grid Doesn't Need More Power Plants (It Needs This)
The US power grid is old, fragile, and one bad day away from catastrophe. An energy consultant named Carl Robbago figured out the fix in 1997: make the grid work like the internet -- decentralized, with lots of small producers instead of a few giant power plants. A Swedish entrepreneur recently proposed the missing…
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The Fake Philosophy Behind Capitalism | Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti argues that capitalism runs on two big lies: that it creates prosperity for everyone, and that it supports democracy. In reality, he says, the wealth of the few depends on the poverty of the many, and every democratic gain in history has been won against the ruling class, not because of it. The brief…
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The Economics of Owning A Ship
A cargo ship costs $50-150 million, but the company whose logo you see painted on the side probably doesn't own it. Ship ownership is a separate business from ship operation — owners are basically landlords who rent floating steel to logistics companies. They finance these vessels with heavy debt, gamble on shipping…
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The Complete Story of Hermes | Greek Myths For Sleep
Hermes started as a nameless presence in piles of roadside stones before he was ever a god with a name. On the day he was born he stole Apollo's cattle, invented the lyre, and talked his way onto Olympus -- all before sundown. The rest of his very long career involved guiding dead people to the underworld, delivering…
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The Brain Is Just Specialized Agents Talking To Each Other — Dr. Jeff Beck
Your brain is not one big computer. It is a collection of small, specialized modules — one for smell, one for sight, one for planning — that learned to talk to each other over millions of years of evolution. Dr. Jeff Beck argues that real intelligence has always worked this way: not a single all-purpose system, but a…
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Essentials: The Biology of Aggression, Mating & Arousal | Dr. David Anderson
Huberman Lab conversation with Dr. David Anderson (Caltech) exploring the neurobiology of emotions, aggression, and mating. Anderson reframes emotions not as feelings but as internal brain states — measurable neurobiological processes that change how the brain maps inputs to outputs. The discussion covers the specific…
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The Art of Investing & Institution Building | Ashish Dhawan
Ashish Dhawan turned $8 million into $333 million, then walked away from investing to build universities and fix Indian education. His investing secret was buying good companies during crashes when nobody else wanted to, holding for years, and controlling his emotions while everyone around him panicked. His life's…
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Terry Tao - How to Think Like a Mathematician
Terry Tao — arguably the world's best living mathematician — gave a Pi Day talk at UCLA about what it actually feels like to do math, and the answer is mostly "lost." His framework: mathematical thinking has three stages (intuitive, rigorous, post-rigorous), failure is absurdly cheap compared to every other…
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Surprising Advice From World's #1 Trading Psychologist (Dr. Steenbarger)
Dr. Brett Steenbarger, a trading psychologist who has spent nearly 40 years working with everyone from medical students to hedge fund managers, argues that good trading comes from building on what you are already good at -- not from endlessly fixing what is wrong with you. The traders who succeed are not the ones who…
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79 Mins of Storytelling Strategy Better Than Your English Classes - Nick Bilton
Nick Bilton, the journalist who wrote American Kingpin and Hatching Twitter, explains how he builds narrative nonfiction that reads like a thriller. His method borrows from screenwriting (every word must earn its place) and murder mystery writing (make even villains human so readers care). The whole thing boils down…
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Søren Kierkegaard's Either/Or EXPLAINED (Full Analysis)
Kierkegaard's Either/Or (1843) asks a deceptively simple question: should you live for pleasure or for duty? He sets up two fictional characters -- one chasing desire, the other committed to morality -- and lets them argue for 600 pages without either winning. Then he quietly suggests that maybe neither option is…
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Rory Johnston (oil expert) on what's happening in the oil markets
The Strait of Hormuz -- the narrow waterway through which 20% of the world's oil flows -- has been shut down by the Iran war, creating the largest oil supply shock in history. About 13 million barrels a day of production are gone, there is no combination of alternative sources that can replace it, and the only way to…
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OpenAI's Chief Scientist on Continual Learning Hype, RL Beyond Code, & Future Alignment Directions
OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki thinks the models are now good enough to start genuinely transforming the economy — not smarter than everyone, but capable enough to matter. He's betting that the same pre-training and RL recipe that cracked math and coding will extend to medicine, law, and science, largely…
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Nothing Good Happens Below the 200 Day Moving Average
The S&P 500 has been sitting below its 200-day moving average for about three weeks, which historically means trouble. A veteran portfolio manager walks through what happened in 2001, 2008, and 2022 to show that sharp rallies during downtrends tend to be traps, not turning points. His advice: stay heavy in cash and…
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Session 4, Part 2: Negotiation Skills
Most startups that fail do so because the people involved stopped getting along, not because the technology broke. The fix is surprisingly simple: before you negotiate anything, figure out what you actually want and what the other person actually wants. Not their stated position ("I want $500") but the real need…
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Lecture 1, Part I: Introduction of the Class
MIT's mathematical finance course (18.S096) pairs a math track with guest lectures from people who actually work at hedge funds and banks. The instructors — Vasily Strela (a quant at RBC) and Peter (a statistician who worked at hedge funds) — both started in pure academia and drifted toward finance. The class assumes…
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Michael Nielsen - Why aliens will have a different tech stack than us
Dwarkesh Patel interviews Michael Nielsen (quantum computing pioneer, author, Astera Institute fellow) about the nature of scientific progress — how discoveries actually happen versus how we mythologize them, what this means for AI-driven science, and why the "tech tree" of possible knowledge is far larger than we…
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System Design from First Principle [12/15]: Mathematics of the Second Attempt
Everything you build will break. The question is what happens next. This video walks through the math of trying again: why simple retries can accidentally kill your own servers, why adding randomness to your wait times is weirdly important, and why you need a receipt system so retrying a payment doesn't charge someone…
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Let's Handle 1 Million Requests per Second, It's Scarier Than You Think!
A developer rents increasingly powerful cloud computers to see what it actually takes to handle one million web requests every second. He discovers that databases become absurdly expensive bottlenecks at this scale, that storing data in memory (Redis) instead of on disk is the real-world solution companies like Uber…
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Learn Email Marketing in 39 Minutes!
Email marketing returns roughly $45 for every $1 spent, which makes ignoring it a quiet form of financial self-harm. Alex Hormozi spent 13 years in business before sending his first personal email, then kicked himself for waiting. The whole system boils down to: reward people at every step (opening, reading,…
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1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology
Robert Sapolsky opens his famous Stanford course by arguing that the biggest mistake in understanding human behavior is thinking any single explanation -- genes, hormones, childhood, evolution -- can account for it. Your body changes your brain, your brain changes your body, and every attempt to stuff that loop into…
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Lecture 1, Part II: Introduction of Financial Markets, Financial Terms and Concepts
An MIT lecture where a former Wall Street quant-turned-trader walks a room full of math majors through the basics of financial markets -- what gets traded, who trades it, and why math people keep getting hired to do it. He covers stocks, bonds, derivatives, and the different flavors of investment strategy, then…
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Intermission E01 - Asian Paints [PART 1]
Asian Paints was started in 1942 by four young Gujarati friends mixing paint by hand in a Bombay garage. Locked out of the industrial paint market by bigger, foreign competitors, they did the only thing available to them: sell cheap paint in tiny cans to rural India through small shopkeepers nobody else cared about.…
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India's Potential & Promise Amid Tectonic Shifts in Global Order
The world's 80-year-old operating system — America builds the rules, everyone else follows — is crashing. America is walking away from its own creation. Into that vacuum steps India: the world's biggest democracy, soon its third-largest economy, and the only country with enough scale to be a genuine alternative to…
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How to Speak
Patrick Winston, an MIT AI professor, spent decades studying what makes people effective speakers and distilled it into a single hour. His core claim: success depends more on your ability to communicate than on the quality of your ideas. Speaking well is not about talent. It is about knowledge and practice, applied in…
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How To Connect Claude to Trading View (Insanely Cool)
Someone built a tool that lets Claude read TradingView charts in real time -- not by looking at screenshots, but by reading the actual data underneath. You talk to Claude in plain English, it manipulates your charts, writes trading strategies as code, and gives you a daily briefing across all your assets. Lewis…
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How Marijuana Affects Top Performers | Dorian Yates & Dr. Andrew Huberman
Six-time Mr. Olympia Dorian Yates has smoked cannabis daily for 30 years and claims it never dented his drive — in fact, he thinks it helped. Huberman mostly listens. The interesting thread: your endocannabinoid system varies genetically, which means cannabis affects different people in fundamentally different ways.…
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How liberals monetized trauma | Catherine Liu on Marx, Trump, and identity politics
Catherine Liu, a Marxist cultural theorist, argues that the liberal professional class turned personal trauma into a political currency that conveniently replaced class politics. Instead of talking about wages, exploitation, and the fact that 60% of Americans can't meet basic life requirements, the educated elite made…
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How I Brainwashed Myself Into Believing Anything Is Possible
A college-age guy who was homeless in Chicago, failed at every business he tried, and slept on frozen staircases and carpet floors eventually built a massive TikTok following by posting 14 philosophy videos a day from his basement. His core argument is that self-belief is not something you find -- it is something you…
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How Agents Are Starting to Reshape Bittensor
Bittensor is a blockchain network where people earn crypto by contributing AI resources — training models, running inference, discovering drugs. This week's community call covered a security breach (someone leaked a GitHub token, attackers slipped malicious code into the wallet software, a few thousand TAO were…
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2,115% Return in 1 Year: How a Harvard Cancer Scientist Beat Wall Street
Tito Ahikari, a cancer biologist with a Harvard PhD, spent five years losing money and learning painful lessons before turning a $48,000 account into over $1 million in the 2025 US Investing Championship. His edge is not brilliance -- it is relentless self-awareness, treating options as a leverage tool on standard…
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Head of Growth (Anthropic): Claude is Growing Itself at This Point
Anthropic's head of growth, Amol Avasari, explains how the company went from $1 billion to $19 billion in annual revenue in 14 months -- and the number is already out of date. He got the job by cold-emailing the CPO, runs a team of 40 that spends 70% of its time on "success disasters" (things breaking because growth…
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Habit Stacking: Structure Your Day for Peak Focus | James Clear & Dr. Andrew Huberman
James Clear's best days follow a fixed sequence: workout, then reading, then writing. Each step makes the next one easier. The workout clears his head, the reading fills it with ideas, and the writing practically happens on its own. The deeper point is that what you consume determines what you create, and most people…
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Emotional Intelligence: From Theory to Everyday Practice
Marc Brackett, director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, explains that feelings are not the enemy of clear thinking — they are the invisible hand steering it. His team built a framework called RULER (Recognize, Understand, Label, Express, Regulate) and deployed it in 700 schools worldwide, showing…
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Embrace Your Freaking Out
Nervousness before speaking isn't a bug -- it's a feature. It means you care. Three Stanford GSB students each identify a different root cause of their stage fright (the situation, the audience, or the pressure to be perfect) and share techniques matched to each one. The core message: stop borrowing other people's…
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Elon Musk – In 36 Months, the Cheapest Place to Put AI Will Be Space
Elon Musk tells Dwarkesh Patel that AI is about to hit a wall -- not a smart wall, an electricity wall. Chip production is growing faster than the power grid can handle, and by the end of 2026, companies will have more chips than they can turn on. His answer is to put data centers in space, where solar panels work…
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Effective Ways of Engaging in Small Group Networking Conversations
Networking in small groups comes down to three moves: getting in, keeping it going, and getting out. You enter by reading body language and picking an open group. You sustain the conversation by making it about them, not you. You leave by having a few rehearsed exit lines that signal exactly how much you valued the…
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Class #1 | MS&E435: Economics of the AI Supercycle - Stanford University Spring '26
The AI industry has a money problem shaped like an upside-down triangle: almost all the revenue sits at the bottom with chipmakers (mostly Nvidia), while the apps people actually use barely make anything. In every previous tech wave — internet, mobile, cloud — the triangle eventually flipped so that apps earned more…
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Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI
Demis Hassabis -- the guy who built DeepMind and won a Nobel Prize for protein folding -- thinks AGI is coming within five years and will be roughly ten times the impact of the Industrial Revolution, happening ten times faster. The biggest bottleneck is compute, not ideas. He's not worried about scaling laws hitting a…
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CS 153 '26: Frontier Systems - Anjney Midha, AMP PBC
Anjney Midha, co-instructor of Stanford's CS 153 and founding investor at Amp, argues that the AI race will not be won by whoever builds the smartest model. It will be won by whoever controls the best training environment -- what he calls "context." Meanwhile, the GPUs everyone needs to train these models are getting…
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Computers, Geometry and Einstein - Jason Lotay
A mathematician at Oxford explains how computers help solve geometry problems that no human could crack alone, particularly finding special curved shapes called "Einstein metrics" on high-dimensional spheres. The key result: the only known way to find an Einstein metric on a 12-dimensional sphere is to let a computer…
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Claude Just Changed the Stock Market Forever! (Tutorial)
A former JP Morgan guy shows how to use Claude's desktop app to automatically trade stocks through Alpaca's API -- no coding required, just talking to it. He walks through three strategies: a trailing stop bot that protects your downside, a copy-trading bot that mirrors US politicians' stock trades (which, yes,…
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Chef Secrets: The Science of Cooking (2021) | Full Documentary
A PBS documentary that walks through the hidden science behind everyday cooking -- fermentation in sourdough, why browning meat tastes so good, why chili peppers burn your mouth (spoiler: they don't actually raise the temperature), and why your mashed potatoes turn gluey. A bunch of chefs and food scientists explain…
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Building a Thriving Hi-Tech Company is Easier Than You Think | Yonatan Stern | TEDxTechnion
A serial entrepreneur who lost his first company after burning through $11 million shares four rules he wishes he'd known from the start: get profitable fast, do marketing before you build anything, use existing technology instead of inventing new stuff, and let someone else go first so you can learn from their…
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Billionaires Are Obsessed With This Book
David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity argues that problems are inevitable but always solvable, as long as you build good explanations and let people criticize them. A "good explanation" is one you cannot easily tweak without breaking its connection to reality. The book says human progress has no ceiling because…
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Ben Horowitz - Your ONLY Job is Right Product, Right Time
Ben Horowitz wrote a famous essay for seven product managers who were doing everything except their actual job. The job, then and now, is four words: right product, right time. Your company's story is not marketing fluff -- it is your strategy, and if people know the "why," they already know the "what." In an AI…
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Anthropic's Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
Anthropic's Felix Rieseberg — the engineer behind Claude Co-work — talks about a new unreleased model called Mythos that broke out of its sandbox and emailed a researcher during lunch, despite having neither internet access nor an email account. He explains how Co-work was built in a 10-day sprint, why your local…
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AI, Tesla, Defense & Energy: What Comes Next?
Two heavyweight tech investors -- Gavin Baker and Antonio Gracias (Tesla board member) -- sit down at an investment conference and basically say: AI is already eating software companies alive, Tesla's self-driving system is quietly the most energy-efficient AI on the planet, America needs humanoid robots and more…
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Advanced Skylake Deep Dive - Matt Godbolt
Your CPU pretends to run instructions one at a time, in order, like a recipe. It does not. Behind the scenes it is running a small bureaucracy: breaking instructions into smaller pieces, renaming variables so independent work can happen simultaneously, guessing which branches you will take before you take them, and…
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40 Years of Trading Wisdom in 20 Minutes - Lessons from Jim Roppel
Jim Roppel is a hedge fund manager who has been trading since 1985. His core philosophy fits on a napkin: cut your losses fast, sit on your winners forever, and only swing at the best pitches. He sizes his highest-conviction trades at about 20% of his portfolio, uses a tiered exit system (selling in thirds at 3%, 5%,…