What’s Worth Reading | Shreyas Recommends – (Week 50: July 7 – July 14)

 

• 10 policy mistakes of the past that India still needs to fix

• The WTF economy is bonkers

• Commercial internet’s 20 years and what has made it such a success

• How companies should be valued and are actually valued

• What was happening to the Chinese stock markets last week

• Bombay Stock Exchange is 140 years old

• The similarities between the upcoming IPO of IndiGo with the Jet Airways IPO

• Pete Sampras writes a letter to his 16-year old self

• The difference between actual age and biological age of humans

• The origin story of the “Slinky”

• Refrigerator by Leonardo da Vinci

• Innovation in bubble wrap will save billions of dollars in logistics, but will ruin the most fun part of it

• Anybody working on improving the bathroom situation in the offices?

• Top 30 liquors in the world

• Indian ear cleaners are struggling to find clientèle

• 8 places to visit if you are a Nikola Tesla fan

• Want to own printed Wikipedia? 7,600 books could be yours at only $500,000

• Marie Curie’s research notes are still radioactive after a century

• Quick puzzle to test problem solving

 

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Shreyas is a Delhi-based Consultant working with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He blogs at shreyasp.wordpress.com. He is an alumnus of IIM Indore. Follow him on InsideIIM at shreyasp.insideiim.com