Archives for May 2024

A Letter to My 13-Year-Old Son

Dear Chaitanya,

Happy birthday! I can’t believe how quickly time has flown by. It feels like just yesterday when you came into my life, filling it with great happiness.

Today, you stand on the threshold of your teenage years, and I am filled with pride and excitement for the incredible young man you are becoming.

You embark on this new chapter of your life, and like I have done with your sister in the past, and you have always complained about why I have never written to you, let me tell you that I waited all these years for the time I think you will understand the real meaning of what I am about to tell you.

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Omaha Diaries #1: Find Your Tribe

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Over the next few days and weeks, I will be sharing a few lessons from my recent trip to Omaha, and from my interaction with some friends in the investing space, under this series titled “Omaha Diaries”. This is the first part of this series.

I have been a loner all my life. You put me in a room, with just a window to look out, and I will be happy (a book and a window is a better combination). Add a stranger, and I will be quiet, expecting the other person to begin a conversation. Add two strangers, and I will let them do all the talking while I look out of the window. Add more than two strangers, and I will have butterflies in my stomach.

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Omaha, My Everest

One of the best books I have read on the pursuit of the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, is George Mallory’s Climbing Everest.

Mallory was possibly the first man to summit Everest (nobody knows whether he did it), almost 30 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay began their ascent. It was during his third expedition to the Everest that he lost his life, last seen about 800 feet from the summit.

One of my favourite parts from the book is when Mallory shared his reply to a question asked by a journalist about why he would risk his life to attempt to reach the daunting Everest. His profound response outlines an undeniably powerful way to perceive life.

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