[TWRL – This Week on my Reading List – a weekly compilation of interesting articles, reports, podcasts, videos, books, life discovered on Internet and elsewhere]
TWRL 28Oct-2018
- Watch this bold, gutsy take on current day self-focused VC operations by Social Capital Founder Chamath Palihapitiya (watch from 21:45). A level-headed guy!
- Another piece by Chamath on his fund becoming more internal funding driven, shunning outside capital. A passionate note.
- Execution is all it matters. A case study (Sears), how it faltered after a successful investor took over its reins and started applying theoretical decentralization concepts without much of reality dosage
- Art dealers earn more than artists themselves. The fundamental weave behind this is diversification as a tool. Nice perspective by @safalniveshak
- Started reading Amazon’s shareholder letters Truly loving them. Some of the snippets here –
On Long Term thinking and Customer need driven 
On physical stores, he denied he lacked skills after more than 1.5 decade, he did it
On Amazon AWS bet in 2006
Celebrate every milestone
Math based decision vs judgement based decision
Team of missionaries | counter balance of info snacking | Kindle
A Seeker's Journey 