“No matter how calm you are, no matter how long term an investor you are, no matter what your horizons, when the market is jumping around, you feel uncertainty in your gut and it’s hard to resist that.” — Peter Bernstein If you are an equity investor or someone who…

“The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.”- Benjamin Graham If you can currently afford a materially comfortable life, would you be willing to play Russian roulette if winning gets you One Billion Dollars? Think about this for a moment. We will get…

“Churn leads to butter but also froth” — by yours truly Last week, I had a meeting with a friend regarding a career predicament of his. Leaving aside specific details, the predicament boiled down to — should I quit my current job or not? This is a tough question to…

“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.” — Captain Jack Sparrow Tuesday this week, I completed first run as a back-again resident of Hyderabad. It was hot and humid compared with Pune and hence the run felt harder than usual. This run also…

“Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving” — Maxwell Maltz This week has been action packed and life continues to be in full-ON mode. My family and I moved from…

In the last couple of weeks, I have had opportunity to discuss and guide two people on their career choices. Although I had done innumerable such discussions in my corporate career, the recent discussions reminded me once again of how hard making a career choice can be — the decision…

“Direction is much more important than speed” — attributed to Feynman In the 1990s movie “Dumb and the Dumber”, the protagonists drive a good five hours in the opposite direction before they realize their mistake. …

“Because of the coincidence of two planes crashing last month, she now prefers to take the train. That’s silly. The risk hasn’t really changed; it is an availability bias.” — Daniel Kahneman In the last one year, I have had opportunity to “angel” invest in a very small way. It…

“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb Last week, one of my ex-colleagues called to inform me that he got promoted to the next level in the organization. He felt that I played a role in his career growth and hence wanted to appraise me of…