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Book Review:The Bed of Procrustes


This post is in continuation of my book review series (see here)

The Bed of Procrustes is written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

It is a slim book full of aphorisms (pithy statements) by Taleb.

Some samples are:

Someone from your social class who becomes poor affects you more than thousands of starving ones outside of it

 

For the robust, an error is information; for the fragile, an error is error

 

A more detailed and funnier review can be found here

All in all, this book is thoroughly avoidable.

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SiteReview

Site Review:CapitalMind

This post is in continuation of my site review series (see here)

CapitalMind is a very popular financial blog written by Deepak Shenoy.

Deepak covers a range of topics in his blog-from inflation figures to monthly Nifty performances to misselling of insurance products etc

Some of his posts are very well written and incisive in its analysis-for example, take his latest post on how relationship managers are peddling HDFC Crest to unsuspecting customers.

Deepak Shenoy is also associated with low cost brokerage Zerodha.I believe Zerodha heralds how broking business will change in India in the future aka just how the US brokerage industry changed due to low cost discount brokerages.

Check out Deepak’s blog for yourself !!