Happy 100th Birthday, Jerome Bruner: The Pioneering Psychologist on the Act of Discovery and the Key to True Learning; “Discovery, like surprise, favors the well-prepared mind.”; From humble patent clerk to the world’s most beloved genius: the fascinating life of Albert Einstein – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 1 Oct (Thurs)

Life

• Happy 100th Birthday, Jerome Bruner: The Pioneering Psychologist on the Act of Discovery and the Key to True Learning; “Discovery, like surprise, favors the well-prepared mind.” BP
• From humble patent clerk to the world’s most beloved genius: the fascinating life of Albert Einstein: BI
• Henry David Thoreau on Success: Farnam
• 4 Tips for Launching Minimum Viable Products Inside Big Companies: HBR
• What does it take to go from challenger brand to market leader? These businesses start out as underdogs but can end up disrupting an entire industry: Guardian
• The perils of true-crime writing; For even a scrupulous, serious-intentioned writer attempting to chronicle a contentious crime, there are all sorts of potholes along the way: Forbes
• Claude Dauphin, Trafigura Trading House Founder, Dies at 64; Dauphin spent five months in an Ivory Coast jail in 2006 and 2007 over a dispute involving alleged dumping of toxic waste in Abidjan. The jail held some 4000 prisoners and did not have showers. Bloomberg, Reuters
• Why More People Want an M.B.A.: Number of applicants seeking admission to business-school programs is on the rise: WSJ
• A psychologist says there are 2 simple strategies for surviving anxiety in your 20s: BI
• Meet the man behind the corporate world’s most incredible parties – and see his stunning work; When companies like J.P. Morgan need an event planner, they call Ron Wendt.: BI
• The first results of a massive brain study reveal something fascinating about smart, successful people: BI
• A hotel magnate warns CEOs about one major danger that comes with success: BI
• 8 TED talks that can help you become insanely productive: BI
• American Colleges Pay Agents to Woo Foreigners, Despite Fraud Risk; Campuses pay commissions to build foreign enrollment but sometimes get phony applications, ghostwritten essays: WSJ

Books

• From the Other Side of the World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places: Amazon

Investing Process

• Buffett on Unconventional Investments: BHI
• Charlie Munger’s Six Filters for Investing Successfully: GF
• Running a Business and Value Investing: A Story of Similarities: GF
• Risky Strategy Sinks Small Hedge Fund: NYT

Greater China

• Chinese Domino Effect Still Threatens World Markets; Emerging markets and others continue to feel reverberations from China stocks’ epic third-quarter tumble. WSJ
• Becoming China: From Shale Malinvestment Boom To “We Are Overbuilt” Bust: zh
• Chinese Billionaire Takes On Musk With Electric-Car Reboot: Bloomberg
• Children of the Yuan Percent: Everyone Hates China’s Rich Kids; The fuerdai, China’s second-generation rich kids, are the most loathed group in the country. They’re also its future. Bloomberg
• ETF Investors Exit Emerging-Market Stock Bets as China Falters: Bloomberg
• China Inc.’s Synaptics Bid Boosts Effort to Build Tech Industry: Bloomberg
• Chinese home appliance maker Haier is expanding into other avenues, including eggs, through its financial service arm and micro companies set up within the group: WCT
• Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying couldn’t be more bang-on when he said he won’t be lifting the property curbs. Standard
• A Fervor to Glimpse ‘China’s Mona Lisa’: NYT
• China Can’t Keep Car Market’s Pedal to the Metal: The government issues another stimulus round in local auto industry’s worst year since 2009: WSJ
• As China Cools, Korean Exporters Feel Chill; Ulsan’s factories hitched a ride on the Chinese boom, and now they’re saddled with excess capacity: WSJ

India

• Ecommerce growth caught everyone off-guard, says Adidas Group India MD: Forbes
•  Is it time to restructure India into smaller states? qz
• Motherson Sumi’s Vivek Chaand Sehgal Takes A Hit Thanks To Volkswagen: Forbes

Japan & Korea

• Japanese Shipping Company Files for Bankruptcy Protection Over Glencore Fallout: Bloomberg
• Shareholders file collective suit against Daewoo Shipbuilding: KH
• S. Korean EV battery makers set to bask in Volkswagen scam: KH
• After storied past, Posco looks to a challenging future; Analysts say keys are company’s R&D and differentiated products: JA
• Engineering professors look into fallacies of Korea’s fast growth, remedies: KH
• Toray: a hidden Japanese success story: FT
• Japanese Pension Funds Find New Ways To Lose Money, Will Blow Retirement Funds On Junk Bonds: zh

ANZ

• 7-Eleven: New chairman says Australia has widespread wage fraud problem; 7-Eleven: Ceaseless scandal finally forces change: TheAge1, 2

ASEAN

• Widodo’s Bulletproof Car Tires Show Indonesian Thicket of Rules: Bloomberg
• Indonesia High-Speed Train Flip-Flops Underscore Confusion; Mixed messages to Japan, China come as Indonesia courts foreign investors: WSJ
•  Indonesia seeks immunity from Malaysia ‘contagion’: Finance Minister: Reuters
• Johari: 132 firms listed on Bursa are bumi-controlled companies: Star
• Room for improvement in financial reports of Singapore-listed companies: ACRA: CNA

Macro

• Market upheaval forcing many sovereign-wealth funds to adapt: MW
• From heroes to bystanders? Central banks’ growth challenge: Reuters
• A fifth of Britain’s businesses are still stuck in “survival mode”, unable or unwilling to invest to improve their productivity: FT
• Markets: Can they really be tamed? Computer models designed to help investors navigate turbulence are accused of making things worse: FT
• Traders Seek Ways to Benefit From ETFs’ Woes: WSJ

Energy & Commodities

• Traders start pricing Glencore bonds like junk: FT
• Former Nidera Trader Under Investigation After Losses; Former employee at Dutch commodities firm being investigated for possible fraud in loss of $200 million: WSJ

Healthcare

• Elizabeth Holmes, blood-testing startup founder and the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire, ‘has a traumatic fear of blood’: BI

TMT

• Videogames for Seniors Boost Brainpower; With NeuroRacer, attentional capacities rise: WSJ
• Why Investment-friendly Patents Spell Trouble for Trolls: K@W
• What Amazon’s Uber-like delivery service means for the sharing economy; WaPo
• Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel joins Forbes 400 as world’s youngest billionaire: theAge
• From pixels to pixies: the future of touch is sound: Reuters
• The six-year-old startup founded by Facebook’s billionaire cofounder wants to kill long email threads: BI
• Inside Dolby’s new San Francisco headquarters, where mad scientists make movie magic: BI
• Publishers are in peril from annoying ads; Sale of Business Insider shows the challenge facing publishers that rely on digital advertising: FT
• UPS Invests to Learn About Direct Online Sales; It takes a stake in startup Ally Commerce, which allows brand manufacturers to set up websites and bypass middlemen: WSJ
• Publishers That Say No to Automated Ad Sales; Some websites believe they can make more money on their own and reduce annoyance: WSJ

Auto

• VW Scandal Shows a Need for More Tech, Not Less: NYT
• Europe’s Auto Makers Keep Test Firms Close; Watchdogs say commercial ties offer too much room for influencing results: WSJ

Consumer & Others

• Emerging-Market Consumers in Focus for Logistics Providers; A growing middle class in many developing economies is forcing formerly business-focused logistics firms to invest in smooth delivery of goods to consumers. WSJ
• L.L. Bean’s duck boots are ugly-so why do they keep selling out? qz
• How Under Armour’s Kevin Plank Is Taking Wearables Back From Silicon Valley: Forbes
• An unlikely company hoping to topple Nike has become unrecognizable: BI
• Here’s why all fast-food signs are red: BI
• Ralph Lauren on the importance of a name: FT
• Secrets to Creating a Better Hotel Room; At Marriott’s Innovation Lab, researchers find that better Wi-Fi, more outlets and soundproofing trump fancy shampoos: WSJ