Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 1 Feb (Sun) – Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to Change, and the Key to True Personal Growth
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Life
- Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to Change, and the Key to True Personal Growth: BP
- Anne Lamott on How We Endure and Find Meaning in a Crazy World: BP
- Pulitzer-Winning Poet Mark Strand on the Heartbeat of Creative Work and the Artist’s Task to Bear Witness to the Universe: BP
- How to Listen Between the Lines: Anna Deavere Smith on the Art of Listening in a Culture of Speaking: BP
- D.T. Suzuki on What Freedom Really Means and How Zen Can Help Us Cultivate Our Character: BP
- Jeff Bezos’ brilliant advice for anyone running a business: BI
- That’s Funny — but Why? Alan Alda on the Science of Humor: Bloomberg
- Yves Chauvin, Chemist Sharing Nobel Prize, Dies at 84; Chauvin helped unlock the secret of “green chemistry” to produce less hazardous waste in manufacturing: NYT
- If you live in France and don’t eat baguettes, you might be a terrorist? Quartz
Books
- Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair: Amazon
Investing Process
- Aswath Damodaran – Price And Value: Determinants, Divergence, And Convergence via CFA Institute: CFA
- Warnings from the Enron Message Board: SSRN
Greater China
- Probe into China Minsheng chief Mao Xiaofeng just tip of iceberg in banking world of corrupt alliances: SCMP
- As China’s Offshore Yuan Crashes To A 2 Year Low, Beijing Warns Its Citizens: “Don’t Buy Dollars”: ZeroHedge
- China’s Self-Destructive Tech Crackdown: NYT
ASEAN
- Bursa Malaysia proposal on RPT advice is dropped without explanation: TheStar
- Thai conglomerate pursues ‘old school’ expansion in Europe: Nikkei
Macro
- Barron’s 2015 Roundtable issue with Marc Faber, David Herro, Oscar Schafer, and Mario Gabelli discussing their approach to investing. Barron’s
- Repeat Default Rates Rise Since Great Recession, Says Moody’s: WSJ
TMT
- Silicon Valley Reinvents The Invisible Hand: Techcrunch
Energy & Commodities
- One too many oil and gas hubs; The Iskandar dream is in jeopardy because of several unplanned projects on reclaimed land. Do we want to see the oil and gas industry in Johor face the same fate? TheStar
Consumer & Others
- How Honest Burgers became the latest chain to tap into the burger boom; The fast-growing burger business has landed a £7m funding deal; “The burger boom will only get bigger and bigger. The days of frozen burgers are gone.” Telegraph
- McDonald’s Is Everywhere, But It Doesn’t Stand For Anything; The company keeps trying to appeal to new diners, but Americans aren’t biting: Bloomberg
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