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January 2019

The Mundanity of Excellence (Summary)
Daniel F.Chambliss observed 100s of swimmers at every level of ability, over some half a dozen years to analyse what causes ‘excellence’…
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Aditya Khanduri
Traditional Thai Music
The two most popular styles of traditional Thai music are luk thung and Piphat.
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Aditya Khanduri
Build Monopolies & Create Moats
Zero to One is like a manifesto for Entrepreneurs. Do check it out! I discuss a concept here that was one of my key takeaways.
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Aditya Khanduri
The theory of (almost) Everything
Currently the most accepted theory that explains how ALMOST the entire universe works is ‘the standard model’. It answers the fundamental…
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Aditya Khanduri
How does Ronaldo curl his free kicks
First thing first. No, this isn’t a Ronaldo vs Messi debate. So football fans, hakuna your tatas.
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Aditya Khanduri

December 2018

Ray Dalio — Principles summary
Ray Dalio is the founder of investment firm Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest hedge funds. In this highly acclaimed book…
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Aditya Khanduri
Failure: A checklist
Most people focus too much on how to get ahead by making the right decisions. An obsession with how to not fail can be a more effective…
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Aditya Khanduri
Monte Carlo Method — All or nothing, & everything in between
Monte Carlo methods are a class of algorithms that help to show all possible outcomes for an event with a random sample of input. The basic…
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Aditya Khanduri
Freakonomics summary: chapter 4
Freakonomics is an interesting, easy to read a book that analyses various social issues from an economic perspective. The book takes the…
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Aditya Khanduri
Silk Road — World’s Oldest and Longest Trade Route
The silk road is the ancient transcontinental network of trade routes that connected the East with the West. The term was probably first…
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Aditya Khanduri
How to Engineer Biology
If discovery is the systematic exploration of the world around us, then the design is the mainstay of engineering — where concepts learned…
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Aditya Khanduri
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