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Amidst the glamor of sexy businesses which are very attractive for the world’s eyeballs, boring business can be more profitable on a risk-adjusted basis. Benjamin Graham even pointed out that […]

I have a business idea. A fintech platform for crowdsourcing investment in private business. Similar to P2P but pay a fixed portion of profit instead of fixed-income. Investor can get […]

Most investors are very risk-averse. This is demonstrated by the capital flight from developing countries that happen each time The Fed increase their interest rate. Rather than risking their money […]

I watched Polls vs Win Charts – Positional Heuristics. The […]

Democracy is capital intensive, so much so that empirically, in developed and developing country alike, the candidates with more money almost always win over the candidates with less money. This […]

George Soros has a clever way for risk management. In […]

The political economy of education reform do not encourage any drastic change. Teacher resist change, and their qualities is low. Officials cannot push change to much, lest they lose the […]

Religion is a very convenient way to shape individual’s internal cost-and-benefit calculator. As such, what an individual decide to do depends on how they perceive the cost and the benefit. […]

Beyond a certain threshold, the role of leader transformed from leading by executing, to merely coaching the middle management. You don’t need to (or indeed cannot afford to) understand everything […]

I think it’s hard enough to teach yourself things because of several reasons: Structure You don’t know where to start, where is the finish line, and how to methodically move […]

One of the fruit of aqidah is believing in qadha’ and qadar. It is believing that anything that happen to us is already pre-destined from the very start. It is […]

I stumbled on an article about congratulating Indonesia’s first Doctorate candidate in Ushul Fiqh from Islamic University of Madinah. Then I thought: first? Is he really the first scholar of […]

Sometimes we need some additional effort to verify whether the food we are eating is halal or not. Which is a funny fact given Indonesia is a predominantly Muslim country. […]

I just read this article: Millennials won’t rescue Indonesia One of the thought-provoking point regarding the role of youth in change is that the youth is not that important at […]

Why tech entrepreneurs succeed so young? Because they use other people’s time indirectly. Fullmetal Alchemist’s Law of Equivalent Exchange requires that to get something, one must give up something of […]

“Unlike George W. Bush, who was a year behind him in business school and was immortalized in the yearbook blowing a huge bubble of gum, Mr. Romney had limited interest […]