Books I’ve liked: Personal finance, investing & entrepreneurship

Every now and then, a friend asks me for a book recommendation, especially on personal finance, entrepreneurship and investing. Not because am an investing guru (which I am not), but because I read a ton of them!

I thought I will note it down here as well.

All these are books that I have read and liked a lot.

Few like One up on Wall street gave me the confidence that I too can be an investor in the stock market, which until then was crocodile infested space to me. Few like Intelligent Investor have been a huge huge help on almost everything finance. Few like Where are the customers yachts? changed my opinion on the stock market quite abruptly and changed my style of investing drastically.

And yet, few like Richest man in Babylon made me realize that simplicity and a principled method matters. A few like Extraordinary popular delusions helped me stay away from making costly mistakes.

Perhaps, there have been a few that have led me astray as well. Rich dad poor dad? Could be!

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Inspiration

Inspiration shapes us all.

Here is a list of people, movies, books, things and events that have inspired me in the past (and continue to). It’s a growing list, I will come back and add more to it.

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What do you want to do in life?

What are the various things you would love to do in life?

You only have one life! Why not create a bucket list and start working on accomplishing it right away?

Here’s my list.

Leave a comment with a link to yours.

Hobbyists Hub: A concept

In the last one week, I had been discussing with friends and family about an idea I had in mind. The hobbyists hub.

What initially started as an idea of a book library for a niche segment, morphed and mutated into something you see in the image. I was pretty excited because it stitched together many things I loved.. books, photography, travel, cycling, etc.

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Thumbs up/down in November

For November, my thumbs-up list.

Photography / travel:

1. Tour of Nilgiris
2. Moisture wicking Kalenji Tee’s from Decathlon
3. A cheap white umbrella and a black background for your own studio shots
4. Air Asia free international tickets (deal is now over, but keep a watch on their site)
5. Special magazine subscription offer, courtesy TFN, for Outlook Traveller for one year.  Details here.

Books:

1. Hotshoe Diaries by Joe McNally
2. Ebook on lighting by Mitchell Kanashkevich

Movies:

1. Postmen in the mountains (Chinese)
2. Pancharangi (Kannada)

Personal finance:

1. Rohit Chauhan’s blog (been following his blog for more than 5 years and love his thoughts)
2. Rohit’s announcement of a paid service

My thumbs-down list

Photography / travel:

1. Cancellation of my SriLanka trip due to lack of leaves (and clash with TFN plans)
2. Sri Lankan national parks entry fee (25USD mostly, while for locals its free)

Books:

1. Pricing of used books at places like Bookworm and Blossoms (Bangalore). When new books are available at 80%, these guys price books at 60%+