My Most Powerful Tool for Thinking and Decision Making: The more your write, the more precision of thought you build. It allows you to take fuzzy thinking and distill it into precise line of thought; To Whom Do Japan’s Most Powerful Turn for Advice? The Sensei of Seaweed; Ina Food chief, little known abroad, counsels Toyota boss and others on how to manage a company – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 1-2 Sep (Tues+Wed)

Life

• My Most Powerful Tool for Thinking and Decision Making: The more your write, the more precision of thought you build. It allows you to take fuzzy thinking and distill it into precise line of thought: SN
• To Whom Do Japan’s Most Powerful Turn for Advice? The Sensei of Seaweed; Ina Food chief, little known abroad, counsels Toyota boss and others on how to manage a company: WSJ
• How Making Time for Books Made Me Feel Less Busy: HBR
•  A CEO says this is one quality entrepreneurs need to be successful: BI
• Leadership is about understanding people, and you can learn a lot from reading about literature, art, and politics.: Strategy&
• 4 lessons in storytelling from a screenwriter who’s also a d&d dungeon master: FastCo
• 11 Secrets Of Irresistible People: Forbes
• To Stop Procrastinating, Start by Understanding the Emotions Involved; Time management goes only so far; the emotional reasons for delay must also be addressed: WSJ

Investing Process

• Knowing when to exit the markets is important: Forbes
• The Misplaced Faith in Optimizing Portfolios: TA
• Conglomerate Honeywell Finds Love Amid the Breakups; Investors reward Honeywell, even as others are pressured to tighten their focus: WSJ

Greater China

• China stock probes send shivers through investment community: ‘If I don’t come back, look after my wife’: FP
• China is scaring away foreign investors with its efforts to defend shares: Economist
• Nearly 90% of micro-shops on WeChat likely to close: WCT
• A Secretive Agency Hunts for China’s Crooked Officials Worldwide: Bloomberg
• In search of China’s local gov debt gap… oh, sorry, we meant cap: FT
• China risks an economic discontinuity; Many believe the economy is already growing far more slowly than the government admits: FT
• After 39% Rout, China Stocks Still Cost Double Hong Kong Prices; Bloomberg
• The $2 Trillion Emerging-Stock Drop Fixing All Eyes on China: Bloomberg
• Xi Rebukes Powerful China Youth League for Being Out of Touch: Bloomberg
• China Hedge Funds Face Worst Month in 16 Years After Carnage: Bloomberg
• Alibaba Investors Backpedal as China Slowdown Saps Sales Growth: Bloomberg
• If We Don’t Understand Both Sides Of China’s Balance Sheet, We Understand Neither: VW
• Questions about China’s bad banks and bad debt will not go away: FT
• Slowing Growth Exposes Chinese Banks’ Debt Debris: NYT
• At 2 p.m. in China, the Stock Market Rescue Suddenly Switches On: Bloomberg

India

• Millions of India’s workers threaten to strike: CP
• Knowing when to exit the markets is important: Forbes
• MCX: Out of the Jignesh Shah shadow: Forbes
• Jim Rogers exits India, says one can’t invest just on hope; Rogers said he has sold all his India shares as he saw nothing new coming from Prime Minister Narendra Modi:  LM
• Of pampered Indian unicorns: FT
•  Anger as India’s growth fails to provide employment: AsiaOne
• India pulls back from $6.4bn tax raid on foreign investors: FT
• India warned to beware gloating over China crisis; Doubts over GDP data and New Delhi’s ability to exploit its neighbour’s difficulties: FT

Japan & Korea

• Bitten by volatility, ‘Mrs Watanabe’ less bold about buying dollars: Reuters
• Foreign Investors Head to Tokyo Unshaken by World Stock Rout: Bloomberg
• Abenomics Pays Fat Dividends as Stocks Trounce Bonds for Yields: Bloomberg

ASEAN

• Dimming Southeast Asia growth outlook adds to risks for China: Reuters
• 36,000 Jobs at Risk as Small-Scale Indonesian Textile Factories on the Verge of Collapse: JG
• Indonesia’s Joko Widodo struggles to extend power base: FT

Macro

• Welcome to Quantitative Tightening as $12 Trillion Reserves Fall: Bloomberg
• For Stock Markets, the Moment When Humans Matter; Stock-pricing problems lead to questions about ‘Rule 48’: WSJ
• Investors wake up to emerging market currency risk: FT
• Emerging markets: Fixing a broken model; As exports slow and foreign capital takes flight, developing nations must act to avert a crisis: FT
• The Hedge That Wasn’t: How $150 Billion of Mystery Bonds Flailed: Bloomberg
• Easy Money Creates the Most Dangerous Bubbles: Bloomberg

Energy & Commodities

• Why the commodities super cycle was a myth; Falling prices show the world is not running out of resources: FT

Healthcare

• Robot Millionaire Takes a Shot at Fixing Severed Spines; Bloomberg
• Genes genie: Oxford Nanopore’s Gordon Sanghera; Gordon Sanghera has a grand ambition: to build a new science-based company under British ownership that commands a large global market. FT
• Can Some Probiotics Have an Antibiotic Effect? A strain of healthy bacteria can kill harmful bacteria in lab tests: Healthcare

TMT

• The amazing life of Stewart Butterfield, the CEO of one of the fastest-growing business apps ever: BI
• Google’s Driverless Cars Run Into Problem: Cars With Drivers: NYT
• The moral hazard created by buckets of start-up funding: FT
• Tech Firm Serving Hedge Funds Shows Perils in Money-Losing IPOs: Bloomberg

Consumer & Others

• Lululemon wants to know if you want your pants to hug you or feel naked: WaPo
• Forever 21 Rethinks Its Love of Giant Stores; Teen retailer talks to mall owners about scaling down, also seeks a loan: WSJ