20190328 Tamim Investment Reading List

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The TAMIM team is always diligently researching, reading and scouring the internet for information and ideas that will shape our investing future. We have decided to compile our list of favourite reads together here each week for your convenience and hopefully education – enjoy the reads and various views.

 

 

Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem (Atlantic)

Physics Is Pointing Inexorably to Mind (Scientific American)
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Last Year for Hedge Funds Was Worse Than You Thought: Nearly two-thirds of all funds lost money in 2018. (Institutional Investor)
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Two’s Are Now Underestimated – The Mikan Drill for Stocks (Krueger & Catalano)

How Often Is It a Stock-Picker’s Market?Β (Wealth of Common Sense)

Tokyo became a megacity by reinventingΒ itself (National Geographic)
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How Companies Learned to Stop Fearing Trump’s Twitter Wrath (New York Times)

Revisiting the Trump Portfolios (The Big Picture)

What isΒ Amazon? (Zack’s Notes)
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​Happy investing,

​The team at TAMIM

 

 

20190321 Tamim Investment Reading List

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The TAMIM team is always diligently researching, reading and scouring the internet for information and ideas that will shape our investing future. We have decided to compile our list of favourite reads together here each week for your convenience and hopefully education – enjoy the reads and various views.

 

 

US companies are moving tech jobs to Canada rather than deal with Trump’s immigration policies. (Recode)
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Technology: From Copycats toΒ Innovators (Democracy)
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Chimpanzees Are Going Through a TragicΒ Loss:Β By fragmenting forests and killing off individuals, humans are stopping the flow of ideas among our closest relatives. (The Atlantic)
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The next frontier in real estate technology (Techcrunch)Amazon gets an edge with its secret squad of PhDΒ economists (CNN)
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Meritocracy doesn’t exist, and believing it does is bad forΒ you (Fast Company)
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Data Becomes Cash Crop for BigΒ Agriculture (Bloomberg Businessweek)
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How Investors Should Navigate Globalization’sΒ Decline (Barron’s)
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Sociologists blow up the myth that uneducated white voters support Trump because of economicΒ anxiety (Raw Story)
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​Happy investing,

​The team at TAMIM

 

 

20190314 Tamim Investment Reading List

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The TAMIM team is always diligently researching, reading and scouring the internet for information and ideas that will shape our investing future. We have decided to compile our list of favourite reads together here each week for your convenience and hopefully education – enjoy the reads and various views.

 

The ServantΒ Economy:Β Ten years after Uber inaugurated a new era for Silicon Valley, we checked back in on 105 on-demand businesses. (The Atlantic)

The Sharing Economy Was Always a Scam (Medium)
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Why the tech sector may not solve America’s looming automationΒ crisis (The Pudding)

What to Do When You Realize You’ve Made aΒ Mistake (Harvard Business Review)

13 Ways We Justify, Rationalize, or Ignore NegativeΒ Feedback (Harvard Business Review)
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A New Paradigm for Plastics (Project-Syndicate)
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The Aldi effect: how one discount supermarket transformed the way BritainΒ shops.Β When Aldi arrived in Britain, Tesco and Sainsbury’s were sure they had nothing to worry about. Three decades later, they know better. (The Guardian)
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Here are the data brokers quietly buying and selling your personalΒ information (Fast Company)
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Reimagining Capitalism: How The Greatest System Ever Conceived (And Its Billionaires) Need To Change. (Forbes)
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​Happy investing,

​The team at TAMIM
 

20190307 Tamim Investment Reading List

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The TAMIM team is always diligently researching, reading and scouring the internet for information and ideas that will shape our investing future. We have decided to compile our list of favourite reads together here each week for your convenience and hopefully education – enjoy the reads and various views.

 

 

Economics AfterΒ Neoliberalism (Boston Review)
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We have to fix fashion if we want to survive the climateΒ crisis (Fast Company)
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Quick Thinking Leads to BadΒ Behavior (Morningstar)Why Haven’t Over-The-Air Updates Taken Over The Auto Industry? (The Drive)

Everything About Finance Distilled Into A Short List (Money Maven)
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Polluted byΒ Money:Β How corporate cash corrupted one of the greenest states in America (Oregonian)
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The Route of a Text Message, a LoveΒ Story:Β The surprisingly complex journey a text message takes every time we hit β€˜send.’ (Vice)
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When you click β€˜buy now’, this is what happens inside Amazon Australia’sΒ warehouse (ABC News)
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Fintech firms like SoFi and Robinhood offer β€œfree” stock trading. What’s the catch? (Quartz)

​Happy investing,

​The team at TAMIM

20190214 Tamim Investment Reading List

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The TAMIM team is always diligently researching, reading and scouring the internet for information and ideas that will shape our investing future. We have decided to compile our list of favourite reads together here each week for your convenience and hopefully education – enjoy the reads and various views.

 

 

Scientists Are Totally Rethinking AnimalΒ Cognition (The Atlantic)

How China’s Appliance Giant Helped Wipe Out GE’s Middle Managers (BloombergBusinessweek)
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Why We Lie: The Science Behind Our Deceptive Ways (National Geographic)
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The rising Western skyline: Once flat and wide, Western skylines are now rising tall andΒ sleek (Washington Post)
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For investors, most financial television is worthless noise (Evidence-BasedΒ Investor)
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A new use for the spare room Home-share programs match two generations facing loneliness and high housing costs (Curbed)
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The Subtle Threat of High-Quality Distractions: Why we struggle to do our best work in an age of intellectual abundance. (Medium)
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Blitzscaling: The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy (Quartz)
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Tips on Forecasting the Business Cycle (Calculated Risk)

Miss the Worst Days, Miss the Best Days (Irrelevant Investor)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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​Happy investing,

​The team at TAMIM