What is Lindy Effect? As human beings get older, as they age, their remaining life expectancy reduces. Lindy things are the opposite. The Lindy effect is the idea that the future life expectancy of non-perishable things like books, technologies and ideas is proportional to their current age. Lindy things age in reverse – the older …
The Power of Habit Book Review Our choices made every single day are not the result of well-considered decision making process. They’re habits. Habits that we have acquired consciously or unconsciously. In The Power of Habit, business reporter Charles Duhigg translates current behavioural science into practical self-improvement action. According to the author, 40 percent of …
Reading time – 3 minutes A rock does not adjust to its environment. Its shape is set in stone, literally. Water is malleable. It accommodates itself to its environment wherever it goes. It yields to everything and is therefore stopped by nothing. Hence Bruce Lee says: Be water, my friend. Adaptability and flexibility frequently appear …
In our world, the focus is on achieving more or obtaining more – more responsibility, more money, more promotions, and so on. The ‘addition‘ of something is usually a measure of success, and in many situations in our life, this is the correct approach. Equally useful as adding something to our lives is the subtraction of …
Antifragile Book Review Antifragile is one of the most thought-provoking books of recent times and brutally challenges conventional wisdom, our biases, and our view of the world. I promise you won’t look at academics, doctors, managers, Uber drivers and many others the same way. The book provides you with new lenses to view the world. …
The Zurich Axioms: The rules of risk and reward used by generations of Swiss bankers is all about risk and its management. Many people, probably most, want to win without betting. This book is about betting to win. If you do not mind taking reasonable risks – or better, if you enjoy risk, as the …