Madhur Rao

Brainstormer, Explorer, Finance professional, Idea generator, Musician, Photographer, World traveler

Longterm global public market investor in search for mis-priced securities. My heroes in this journey are Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger.

Widening my horizons of ignorance & Education This has been explained best in this book - The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning, physicist Marcelo Gleiser writes this – "Consider, then, the sum total of our accumulated knowledge as constituting an island, which I call the Island of Knowledge. A vast ocean surrounds the Island of Knowledge, the unexplored ocean of the unknown, hiding countless tantalizing mysteries. As the Island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance—the boundary between the known and unknown. Learning more about the world doesn’t lead to a point closer to a final destination — whose existence is nothing but a hopeful assumption anyways — but to more questions and mysteries. The more we know, the more exposed we are to our ignorance, and the more we know to ask"

As Einstein beautifully said it " Compounding is the 8th wonder of the world". The idea of compounding is generally viewed through a financial lens. However, everything worth while created in this world has followed Compounding. Slow and steady, one step at a time. The longest compounding exercise (evolution), at least the product of which are humans is through countless mutations, one at a time over thousands of years and here we are, perfectly sculpted, ready to explore .

This is my first TED experience.

Spending a lot of money on books, which remain unread in my library for a long time.