Rohan Manchanda

What do I read, watch, listen to?

Articles, Essays, & Twitter threads (Text), Videos (Video), and Podcasts (Audio) I have thoroughly enjoyed. Beside each link is my takeaway.

  1. Coatue AI November 2023 report: 60% of enterprises plan to adopt AI, yet less than 10% have implemented it, highlighting a gap ripe for selling AI integration and solutions that automate processes (Text)
  2. Investing Made Simple: Investing is about simplicity (Audio)
  3. Striving versus Self-Acceptance, Saving Marriages, and More: Working and living with humans is difficult (Video)
  4. Getting Better by Being Wrong with Annie Duke: Think and plan in terms of probabilities (Audio)
  5. The Value of Intellectual Rigor: Cut your losses early because pain grows over time (Audio)
  6. Don Valentine: Business Schools don’t help you become an entrepreneur (Text)
  7. David Rubenstein – Carlyle Group: Showing up and following through is a good recipe for raising capital & success (Audio)
  8. Fundamentalist vs. Revolutionary: Good financials will follow if you dominate big markets (Text)
  9. Inventing the future: Ask ‘What Sucks?’ to identify large opportunities (Audio)
  10. What libertarianism has become and will become — State Capacity Libertarianism: Strong States maintain and extend capitalism (Text)
  11. The Three Sides of Risk: Probability of tail-end consequences is an important metric (Text)
  12. How The Economic Machine Works: Extending credit to people is necessary for growth (Video)
  13. Jeff Bezos Talks Amazon, Blue Origin, Family, And Wealth: It is harder to be kind than clever (Video)
  14. What other industries teach us about Investing: Simple ideas can make you a lot of money (Video)
  15. Status as a Service: People like gaining status (Text)
  16. How to Operate: Dashboards spread planning throughout an organization (Video)
  17. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, on Using Your Voice For Good: Work with people you like, on problems you enjoy, and care about others (Video)
  18. Last Lecture Highlights ‘Values’: Develop a world class temperament and tell yourself that it is not about YOU (Video)
  19. Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address: Do what you love, please (Video)
  20. Do things that don’t scale: Do things that don’t scale and delight people (Text)
  21. Why is India poor?: Lack of credit (Video)