Daily Bamboo Innovator Insight: Sun 30 Nov 2014 – Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace; STARTUP GOD PAUL GRAHAM: Mean People Fail
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Life
STARTUP GOD PAUL GRAHAM: Mean People Fail: BI, PaulGraham
Hidden gems in our midst: We need to look at things and people not only with our eyes, but with our heart. Star
This Man Was Supposed To Become Steve Jobs 2.0 — Here’s What Happened Instead: BI
Mohnish Pabrai’s Million-Dollar Advice For A 12-Year-Old Investor: Forbes
In Praise of Melancholy and How It Enriches Our Capacity for Creativity: BrainPickings
Anne Lamott on Grief, Grace, and Gratitude; On the grace of redefining ourselves and redefining okayness when life throws us its merciless curveballs. BrainPickings
Voltaire on How to Write Well and Stay True to Your Creative Vision: BrainPickings
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Catalog of Beautiful Untranslatable Words from Around the World: BrainPickings
Books
Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace: Amazon
Investing Process
Stockpickers’ Blues: A leading market analyst finds that no particular style of stock selection is long successful in the current market. Barron’s
Greater China
Taiwan’s ruling Nationalist Party suffered a landslide defeat in local elections Saturday, prompting the resignation of the premier and leaving the party weakened before a presidential vote in two years. WSJ
TMT
How to Build an Empire, the Netflix Way; With “Marco Polo,” its lavish new series, the streaming service is placing one of its biggest bets yet on global expansion. NYTimes
Netflix CEO: Broadcast TV Will Die Within 16 Years; “It’s kind of like the horse, you know, the horse was good until we had the car”: BI
Lenovo’s $100 Billion Gambit; Yang Yuanqing built Lenovo into the world’s largest PC maker. His next target? Smartphones. Watch out Samsung, Apple. Barron’s
Uber needs rider goodwill to prevail in the many markets where it is facing significant regulatory resistance; Uber’s perceived lack of ethics is making it very difficult to rationalize advocating for them or to even ride with them: Stratechery
The Yellow Cab Bubble Pops: Taxi Medallion Prices Tumble 17% From Last Year’s Record Highs: ZeroHedge
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