Google cofounder Sergey Brin says these 2 books changed his life; What if the objective of one’s life is something other than optimization of discrete blocks of time and monetizing that time? – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 22 Jul (Wed)

Life

• Google cofounder Sergey Brin says these 2 books changed his life: BI
• 30 inspiring quotes from super-successful people that every professional should read: BI
• 10 Simple Statements That Will Make You Think Differently; Short bits of wisdom from good books. Fool
• “A single kindness can change everything” ; Pixar’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Trailer Promises a Visually Stunning, Emotional Journey: WSJ
• Do You Know What Your Time Is Really Worth? New online tools help people value an hour; the time vs. money trade-off; What if the objective of one’s life is something other than optimization of discrete blocks of time and monetizing that time? WSJ
• How to write, according to the woman who wrote some of Pink Floyd’s biggest hits: qz
• 7 Challenges Successful People Overcome: Forbes
• In big move, Accenture will get rid of annual performance reviews and rankings; “The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating,” ; The death knell for performance (review) anxiety?: WaPo, TheAge
• Here’s how to get through the workday after a sleepless night: BI
• I tried a strange fruit some scientists think could solve world hunger: BI
• After more than a decade, one of the best comic series which showed why adults should care about fairy tales is coming to an end: BI
• How to preserve a startup culture as a company grows: Forbes

Books

• Why Don’t We Learn from History?: Amazon
• Myths and Mortals: Family Business Leadership and Succession Planning; Review: Myths and Mortals, Why Family Business Succession Fails: Amazon, FT
• The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism : Amazon
• Book: The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease; Kicking the Habit: If addiction is a brain disease, addicts are mad, sick and defective. If it’s a failure of will, users are bad, immoral and weak.: WSJ

Investing Process

• Toshiba issued almost 1 trillion yen ($8 billion) of stocks and bonds when it was inflating earnings statements, leaving the company exposed to possible regulatory fines and investor lawsuits.: Bloomberg
• Toshiba Scandal Grew From Numbers ‘Too Embarrassing’ to Show: Bloomberg
• Audit system failed to detect misconduct at Toshiba: AsiaOne
• Attacks on Noble Group’s accounting take their toll: FT
• Toshiba scandal’s roots go back to dot-com bubble: Nikkei
• Toshiba scandal is a lesson for all directors asleep at the back: Telegraph
• Profiling The World’s Great Value Investors: What Does It Take To Achieve Enduring Success?: VW

Greater China

• China’s Record Dumping Of US Treasuries Leaves Goldman Speechless; This brings the cumulative capital outflow over the past five quarters to $520bn. Zerohedge
• China’s Market Plunge: Where Only 3% of Firms Could Trade; At one point in July, suspensions and limit rules meant the majority of companies were halted: WSJ
• Investors cannot see through market froth; Bubbles will be clearer as central banks start to normalise policy: FT
• China’s Aftershock Ripples Through Sales of Cognac to Ore: Bloomberg
• Xi’s powerful anti-corruption czar: Nikkei
• World’s Wildest Stock Market Submits to Communist Party Rule: Bloomberg
• In gadgets, China’s prowess rises: JA
• Uniqlo’s exit from JD.com raises claim of favor to rival Alibaba: Nikkei
• A $4 Trillion Force From China That Helped the Euro Now Hurts It: Bloomberg
• China’s gadget graveyard; About 70 per cent of all global e-waste make their way to China through nearby Hong Kong or Guangdong’s capital Guangzhou. Most end up in Guiyu: AsiaOne
• China fatigued by debt as flexible yuan turns 10: Reuters
• Beijing may be fighting wrong battle in curbing index futures: Reuters

India

• Eicher Motors: It’s all in the drive; A substantial part of Eicher Motors’ success story can be attributed to Siddhartha Lal’s conviction in Royal Enfield, a struggling business back in 2000: Forbes
• Britannia Industries: The taste of success: Forbes
• Discount stockbrokers turn to apps to wean Indians off gold: Reuters

Japan & Korea

• Reward for tips in Kepco fraud case highest yet: JA
• Itochu Advantage? A Lifer CEO’s Big Aims In China; The CEO of one of Japan’s largest trading companies, Itochu, is rather boldly stepping out in word and deed: Forbes
• Toshiba’s Tough Lessons for Japan: Bloomberg

ASEAN

• Philippines remittances: under threat; Changing profile of expat employment suggests domestic economy will have to take up the slack: FT
• Mobile Banking Struggles to Gain Traction in Indonesia; Most Indonesians have mobile phones, but few use them for financial services: WSJ
• KL paper takes fight to govt over 1MDB: TODAY
• The Scandal That Ate Malaysia: bloomberg
• Biggest Thai Fund Sees Buying Opportunity After Stock Rout: Bloomberg

Macro

• Exchange traded funds grow bigger than hedge funds: FT
• ‘Buffett’ Says Sell; BofAML Asks, Should We Listen? Favorite indicator of market cap toGDP ratio is flashing a huge “sell signal” trading 80% ‘expensive’ to its long-term average, Zerohedge

Energy & Commodities

Healthcare

• Revolutionary bionic eye to cure blindness from old age macular degeneration: theAge
• Scientists think they’ve found a way to make the ‘biggest biotech discovery of the century’ safer and more precise; Scientists think they’ve found a way to make gene editing safer.: BI
• This Wearable Gadget Gives You a Low-Voltage Pick-Me-Up; A device called Thync stimulates nerves with electricity to fire you up or calm you down, but does it work?: WSJ

TMT

• A founder who raised $225 million is scary transparent: My (revenueless) startup won’t make any money until we do $20 billion in sales: BI
• Everything we know about Apple’s ultra-secretive car project: BI
• Disney is trying really hard to relive the glory days of its animated classics: BI
• Turkish movie entrepreneur vying with Netflix; Efe Cakarel: Delivering indie films to the masses: FT
• European tech: In Silicon Valley’s shadow; Money is flowing into start-ups, but tough EU rules could dash hopes of a Google or Facebook rival: FT
• A $7 Billion Charge at Microsoft, stemming from Microsoft’s troubled acquisition of Nokia’s cellphone business, Leads to Its Largest Loss Ever: NYT
• IBM Revenue Collapse Is Now Worse Than During Peak Of The Financial Crisis; with IBM’s net debt rising to levels that threaten its investment grade rating, the company could no longer afford to splurge on debt-funded stock buybacks: Zerohedge
• A Tech Startup Is Trying to Catalogue Every Piece of Art on the Market; And once it’s catalogued, Verisart aims to help people buy and sell art digitally: Bloomberg
•  Apple Faces Old Question of What’s Next After Record Profit: Bloomberg
• KKR’s First Data charges into tech-ier second life; KKR’s acquisition of First Data looked like a $29 billion mistake almost right after it closed in late 2007. : Reuters

Consumer & Others

• Chipotle’s prices are starting to vary even more based on where you live: qz
• How Chipotle is changing the pizza industry: BI
• Changing tastes spur Nestlé to take fresh approach to frozen food: FT