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Life

• What the most successful people understand about creative work; Best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert shares her ideas about the importance of constantly moving between extremes for creative success. FastCo
• Physicist Lisa Randall on the Sublime, Our Human Quest for Meaning, and the Crucial Differences Between How Art, Science, and Religion Explain the Universe: BP
• This Is The #1 Mistake Parents Make When Arguing With Kids: barker
• How to train your brain by thinking like an expert: Wired
• How to Work More Efficiently — The Eisenhower Matrix: Farnam
• Marijn Dekkers, Bayer: From GE to Germany; Running a €90bn life sciences group without burning out: FT

Books

• Avoiding Disaster: How to Keep Your Business Going When Catastrophe Strike: Amazon
• 5 Gears: How to Be Present and Productive When There Is Never Enough Time: Amazon

Investing Process

• Getting Value out of Management Meetings: SV
• Look for companies that consistently shrink share count not splashy big buybacks: Bloomberg
• Swedroe: More Factors Don’t Always Help: ETF
• Dumb Alpha: The Ignoramus’s Guide to Asset Allocation: CFA
• Pyramid Scheme Victims In The U.S.: Has Anything Changed In The Last Dozen Years? VW

Greater China

• China Ponders Tool Deemed Too Risky Post 2008 to Cut Bad Loans: Bloomberg
• China terror, an addendum: FT
• IMAX China: A Boffo Hit; China’s movie box office is red hot, and the locals love the big-screen IMAX technology. That means the company could be a blockbuster. Barron’s
• China aims for ‘new industrial revolution’, but is it ready for one? Analysts say no: SCMP
• What do minority investors see in family-run CK Hutchison?: SCMP
• Hong Kong’s worship of property investment has created a society of excess; The city is a place where success and wealth are not measured by what is created but by connections and property assets: SCMP
• Sinosteel bond investors hope for bailout as default looms: FT
• China Economic Growth Falls Below 7% for First Time Since 2009; Figure adds to worries about global economic outlook: WSJ
• Inspection of 11 agencies, SOEs uncovers embezzlement: PD
• Chinese Copper-Trading Surge Shakes Up Market; Restrictions on stock trading in China have caused investors to shift their bearish bets to the copper market: WSJ
• China’s dwindling forex reserves raise worries: FT
• China Ponders Tool Deemed Too Risky Post 2008 to Cut Bad Loans: Bloomberg

India

• How to Manage Valuation Risk in India’s Equities: VW
• Rajan Unclogs India Monetary Plumbing as Banks Finally Cut Rates: Bloomberg

Japan & Korea

• Don’t Get Burned in the Land of the Rising Sun: Barron’s
• Gov’t, Samsung put focus on industrial robots; “Key parts of these industrial robots, like decelerators, motors, controllers and encoders are so expensive that their prices account for more than half of the robot’s price,” JA
• Lotte Group refuses to report to elder son: KH
• E-Land, a mid-tier fashion and restaurant company, is wrestling with snowballing debt, which experts say has reached a risky level. KT
• ‘Konbini’ magic keeps stores precisely stocked round the clock: JT
• The ETF Whale Blamed for Moving Japanese Markets Gets Reeled In: Bloomberg

ASEAN

• International Container Terminal Services: Chairman makes global growth top priority for port operator: Nikkei
• Why the TPP Trade Deal Isn’t All Good for Vietnam’s Factories; Vietnam is poised to be the biggest beneficiary of the 12-nation pact, but for the country’s manufacturers, there are downsides: WSJ
• Why You May Soon See More Goods Labeled ‘Made in Vietnam’: WSJ

Macro

• Pegs under pressure: Currency pegs are still in fashion, but some are creaking: Economist
• Hedge fund performance fees decline sharply: FT
• Currency Rally Sows Seeds of Own Destruction in Policy Paradox: Bloomberg

Auto

• Auto-Parts Retailers’ Immunity to Amazon.com Drives Stock Surge: Bloomberg

TMT

• Batterymakers See a Big Break Coming — No, Seriously This Time: Bloomberg
• When startups go sour – what happens when unicorns run into trouble? TheAge
• Relucant Media Companies Join YouTube’s Subscription Service; After hesitation, firms to make content available for $10 a month service: WSJ
• Silicon Valley Challenged by China, India for Venture Dollars: Blooomberg

Consumer & Others

• ACCC may torpedo $146b global beer deal to prevent ‘cosy duopoly’: TheAge
• What Should Companies Say When the CEO Is Sick? Many boards struggle to balance investors’ rights to know and the executive’s privacy: WSJ
• Undersize Me? McDonald’s Franchise Owners Admit Fast Food Giant “Facing Its Final Days”: zh