Charlie Munger on Avoiding Computers: “People calculate too much and think too little” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 10 Sep (Thurs)

Life

• Charlie Munger on Avoiding Computers: Farnam
• What Does Aristotle Have to do With Business Ethics?: WSJ
• These 150 People Are Ridiculously Successful and All Have the Same Career Path: None: LinkedIn
• Is Our Identity in Intellect, Memory or Moral Character?: WSJ
• Scorpions, cockroaches and the reality of unpleasant leaders: FT
•  To find success, make people laugh: Seth Goldstein: e27
• Germany in the 18th century: Prussian and powerful; What made Frederick great? Economist
• Digital Taylorism: A modern version of “scientific management” threatens to dehumanise the workplace: Economist
• Boom, bust and broken trust mark the ages of finance; Managers of other people’s money lack ‘anxious vigilance’ that they might apply to their own cash: FT
• Why It’s Sometimes Better Not to Tell Employees Where They Stand: K@W

Investing Process

• A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Charlie Munger about Risk: 25iq
• All-powerful index transforms investing: FT
• James Tisch On Value Investing – CIMA Keynote: VW

Greater China

• Change is a heavy task in China’s industrial heartland, but necessary: CP
• Beijing clamps down on forex deals to stem capital flight: FT
• SFC probes Hong Kong brokers and hedge funds over mainland China products: SCMP
• China’s Response to Stock Plunge Rattles Traders: NYT
• Selling Off the State in China: Bloomberg
• So where did that Chinese dollar liquidity end up?: FT
• Chinese Companies Face Premium to Resume Selling Dollar Debt; After issuance ground to a halt for nearly a month, Chinese U.S.-dollar bonds are starting to flow again: WSJ
• Why Did China Invite Blackrock’s Larry Fink For Advice How To Manipulate Its Stock Market?: zh
• China Slowdown Reveals Luxury’s Online Shortcomings, Study Says: Bloomberg

India

• E-commerce in India: Stack and deliver; Urban Ladder’s rise shows the potential for online selling in India: Economist
• Indian drugs: not what the doctor ordered; US regulators have banned imports from 39 laboratories in credibility crisis: FT
• It’s Like PayPal But Pays Interest, and India’s Banks Are Afraid: Bloomberg
• The dangers in Delhi’s dream of overtaking China; India’s overly inflated statistics are breeding a false sense of security: FT
• Vserv: The early bird in the mobile ad industry: Forbes
• Investors See India as Strongest of the Weak; Amid broad emerging-market pain, country retains some allure for money managers: WSJ

Japan & Korea

• 20 years later, here’s why the PlayStation will save Sony: Fortune
• Here’s Why Soaring Japan Stocks Are Good News for Short Sellers: Bloomberg

ASEAN

• No End in Sight for Slide in Singapore Home Prices as Rates Rise: Bloomberg
• Singapore Home Prices Likely to Extend Falling Streak as Interest Hikes Loom: JG
• Malaysia’s 1MDB Fund Scandal Spreads to U.A.E.; At issue is a $1.4 billion payment from 1MDB that officials at an Abu Dhabi investment fund said is missing: WSJ

Macro

• Spanish family firms: Opening up; A debt hangover is forcing some family firms to seek outside help: Economist
• Emerging market slump raises fears of capital controls: FT
• Arthur Andersen rises from the Enron ashes – twice: FT
• Interest rate rise: turning point looms for US debt binge; With a $4tn mountain of debt maturing over the next five years, corporate America’s reliance on cheap cash is about to get tested. FT
• Mom And Pop “Will Probably Get Trampled”: Alliance Bernstein Warns On Bond ETF Armageddon: zh

Energy & Commodities

• Glencore has a mogul in denial; Glasenberg is having to retrench at the time when he should be able to snap up mining bargains: FT

Healthcare

• Apple’s Attention Puts Spotlight on Health-App Maker Mulling IPO: Bloomberg

TMT

• Virtual personal assistants: The software secretaries; Technology firms are competing to become consumers’ personal secretaries, with big implications for commerce and privacy: Economist
• The Bloomberg Terminal, a Wall Street Fixture, Faces Upstarts: NYT
• Apple to Lease, Finance IPhone to Consumers for First Time: Bloomberg

Consumer & Others

• Food Prices Drop Most in 7 Years on Grain Gluts to China Concern: Bloomberg
• Stuffed-Crust Inventor Looks to Bring Pizza Industry Into Chipotle Era: Bloomberg
• Car Crashes Are On the Rise and Warren Buffett Blames Texting; A sudden rise in traffic deaths in 2015 has surprised car insurers and prompted questions: WSJ