Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; We must learn to appreciate the different aspects that make our life complete, and not dwell on the imperfections – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 4 Oct (Sun)
October 4, 2015 Leave a comment
Life
- Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; We must learn to appreciate the different aspects that make our life complete, and not dwell on the imperfections. Star
- The Mountain View of the Mind: Simone Weil on the Purest and Most Fertile Form of Thought; “Our thought should be empty, waiting, not seeking anything, but ready to receive in its naked truth the object that is to penetrate it.” BP
- In 1975, this Kodak employee invented the digital camera. His bosses made him hide it. BRW
- Gary Smith of Ciena: Build a Culture on Trust and Respect: NYT
Books
How to Build and Sustain a Championship Culture: Amazon- H3 Leadership: Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle: Humble (Who am I?), Hungry (Where do I want to go?) and Hustle (How will I get there?). Amazon
Investing Process
- Chuck Akre on Compounding Machine: GF
Greater China
- Manufacturers step up search for low cost alternative to China: SCMP
- Hong Kong tycoon Li in war of nerves with Chinese media: Nikkei
- China unleashes its inner innovator: Nikkei
India
- Solar power is booming in India. Will it reach the people who need it most?: Vox
- India: In KM Birla’s 20-year transformation, a mix of caution and ambition: DSA
Japan & Korea
- Why Are Little Kids in Japan So Independent? In Japan, small children take the subway and run errands alone, no parent in sight. The reason why has more to do with social trust than self-reliance. Citylab
- Toto Group ready to make a splash with new water-saving innovations: NM
ASEAN
- Myanmar development: Backyard oil barons pursue riches in jungle; Minhla is a jumble of Myanmar’s poorest and most ambitious. Bizarrely, the government has not yet fully exploited one of the country’s richest oil fields: Nikkei
- Commodities Rout Takes Its Toll on ASEAN: Barron’s
- Vietnam struggles to sell bonds as funding challenge mounts: DSA
Macro
- The money wave hitting emerging markets: Economist
- The sticky superpower: America remains the world’s economic hegemon even as its share of the global economy has fallen and its politics have turned inwards. That is an unstable combination: Economist
- Global Dollar Funding Shortage Intesifies To Worst Level Since 2012: zh
Healthcare
- How prescription drugs get so wildly expensive: Wired
TMT
- Unwrapping the Cable TV Bundle; Industry analysts agree that the cable TV bundle of channels is in trouble, but it is less clear what would replace it, or at what cost. NYT
- From Wasteland to Wonderland: TV’s Altered Landscape: NYT
- 1985: Television Transformed 1.0: NYT
- New Twists for the TV Plot, as Viewer Habits Change; The audience now watches TV in many different ways, and viewers’ expectations have changed dramatically. Writers are having a hard time keeping up. NYT
- YouTube’s Young Viewers Are Becoming Its Creators: NYT
- Why Comcast should buy Netflix instead of trying to compete with it; The cable company could spend years building its own online video streaming audience or it could acquire Netflix and its 42.3 million U.S. subscribers.: Fortune
- How 114 ideas from clients helped MYOB become a top Most Innovative company: BRW
- How a ‘dislike’ button could make Facebook more money: BRW
- Scouring the Web to Make New Words ‘Lookupable’: NYT
Consumer & Others
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