Bill Gates: A Funny, Brutally Honest Memoir in Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things that Happened by Allie Brosh: Bamboo Innovator Daily: 28 May (Thurs)

Life

• Bill Gates: A Funny, Brutally Honest Memoir in Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things that Happened , by Allie Brosh, GatesNotes
• This Billionaire Mom Runs America’s Biggest Woman-Owned Business; under Thai Lee’s management SHI International has grown from a failing software reseller into one of the biggest and best-regarded IT proviider in the world with $6bn in sales: Forbes
• How Jessica Alba Built A $1 Billion Company, And $200 Million Fortune, Selling Parents Peace Of Mind: Forbes
• How Successful People Handle Stress: Forbes
• Life in the age of anxiety: NYT
• John Nash’s Legacy Lives on in Business Strategy: K@W
• Interview with “king of cashmere” Brunello Cucinelli: PI
• Smarter Every Year? Mystery of the Rising IQs: WSJ
• Remembering John Nash: Finding equations to explain the world: Economist
• Why It’s So Important For A Stock Operator To ‘Know Thyself’: Felder
•  ‘Change the world through education’: KT
• Entrepreneurs Raising the Next Generation of Chief Executives: NYT
• Why Special Ops Stopped Relying So Much on Top-Down Leadership; Leaders that can persuade others to join their network by articulating a common purpose and rallying others around it will quickly outmaneuver those that rely on top-down: HBR
• An Organization-Wide Approach to Good Decision Making: HBR

Books

• Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened: Amazon
• Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others: Amazon

Investing Process

• A Berkshire Opportunity Cost: Listed Family Firms: ConcurringOpinions
• 19 Things That Actually Happened in 1999: Yahoo! was worth more than Berkshire Hathaway. Today Berkshire is worth approximately $360 billion, or about $320 billion more than Yahoo!: Divref
• 10 Non-Investing Quotes With Great Investing Lessons: Cleareyes
• Are declining businesses good shorts?: Youngmoney
• No Light at the end of the Tunnel: Investing in Bad Businesses: Damodaran
• Self-Taught Investor Beating Peers With Lesson From Lynch: Bloomberg
• Vanguard’s commanding position; The index fund pioneer’s low fees have driven down costs but is its success a cyclical phenomenon?: FT

Greater China

• Hotelier’s Daring Letter to Chinese Premier Hits Home; Wu Hai’s salty criticism of red tape makes him unlikely poster boy for Beijing’s efforts to overhaul its economy: WSJ
• China Road Rage Fuels SUV Boom as Drivers Opt for ‘Self Defense’: Bloomberg
• First Taiwan Billionaire of 2015 Minted on Shanghai Advance: Bloomberg
• Sunac Abandons Purchase of Troubled Chinese Developer Kaisa; How China’s Builder Kaisa Won and Lost a White Knight: Timeline: Bloomberg1, 2
• Easiest Way to Cash in on China’s Stock Rally Is to Do Nothing: Bloomberg
• China’s margin trading boom nears its limits: Bloomberg
• China’s stockmarket: A crazy casino: Economist
• Hong Kong retailers set for plunge in rental costs: FT
• Activism on the rise in ‘world’s workshop’: JT
•  China Bull Pauses: Sovereign Wealth Fund Huijin Cashed Out: Barron’s

India

• Meet India’s Top Ten Public Shareholders Holding Stock Worth Rs. 12k Crore: RJ
• India Coal Billionaire Discovers No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Bloomberg
• Meet the Billionaire Globe Trotting With Indian Leader Modi: Bloomberg
• India: A billion shareholders now: FT

Japan & Korea

• Samsung Moves Raise Governance Concerns; Analysts, investors take cold-eyed view of effort to increase heir apparent’s Samsung Electronics stake: WSJ
• Samsung’s Ruling Family Tightens Its Grip: Bloomberg
• Samsung Heirs Show How to Gain $25 Billion in Revenue for Free: Bloomberg
• Japan Inc.’s $104 Billion Investor Payout Set to Surge: Bloomberg
• Samsung’s holding company scenario draws attention: KT
• Panasonic shifting focus in Asia to high-end appliances: Nikkei

ASEAN

•  Indonesia Dusts Off 1920s Law to Tackle Islamic State: Bloomberg
• A growing corruption scandal has raised doubts over the Philippine presidential succession and threatens to unnerve investors in the fast-growing Southeast Asian economy.: FT
• Line’s smash-hit Indonesia movie shows why company prefers to think local: JT
• Indonesian fashion store thrives on flash sales: Nikkei

Macro

• In new trend, European fund firms become banks in all but name: Reuters
• Smart beta strategies risk becoming crowded: FT
• Will share buyback craze spread to Europe?: FT
• Buybacks and dividends set to top $1tn; US companies are bolstering their earnings as the share buyback boom shows little sign of ending. FT
• Star managers battered by rocky ride in yields, currencies: Reuters

TMT

• In 5 years, 80 percent of the whole Internet will be online video: WaPo
• Silicon Valley Races to Make TV the Next Frontier for Apps: WSJ
• Your driverless car is just around the corner, and it will change your life: TheAge
• The Nine Slides That Matter From Mary Meeker’s State of the Internet: Bloomberg
• Apple eyes the car as ‘ultimate mobile device’: FT
• A Murky Road Ahead for Android, Despite Market Dominance: NYT
• Canadian startup Shoes.com eyes fall IPO after raising $45 million in funding round: FP
• The Google-Apple connected car battle has begun: Fortune

Healthcare

• A Robot That Can Perform Brain Surgery on a Fruit Fly: NYT

Energy & Commodities

• Diamond Producers Form Group to Fight Synthetics: WSJ
• The Tanker Market Is Sending a Big Warning to Oil Bulls: Bloomberg

Consumer & Others

• Coles, Woolworths urged to target Aldi’s weaknesses and look to successful retailers such as Britain’s Waitrose and France’s Leclerc in France, where the discounters are in decline: TheAge
• Goldman: These Seven Megatrends Are Going to Reshape the Auto Industry: Bloomberg
• McDonald’s Strategy for Improving Food: Toast the Buns Longer: Bloomberg
• How Burger King turned business around to dominate fast food: BI
• Aldi’s brand is now worth more than Tesco’s: Telegraph