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Here are what I am learning in 2020. I try to be a holistic person. So I am learning technical skills, business skills, and social skills. Technical: Blockchai
by langitbiru 7y ago
Here are what I am learning in 2020. I try to be a holistic person. So I am learning technical skills, business skills, and social skills.
Technical: Blockchain programming (mostly on Ethereum). I believe Ethereum is the future. Programmable money. How cool is that?
However if you think blockchain is fad, you could replace it with cybersecurity.
Business: Corporate finance (stocks, bonds, future contracts, options, etc). This is related with blockchain because I believe a lot of financial applications will move to blockchain platform.
However if you think blockchain is fad, corporate finance itself is a useful skill for investment and analyzing company's finance. Just now, I learned that you could make two bonds with different risks and yields into one security which you can divide into senior tranches and junior tranches. It's very interesting.
Social: Negotiation. I am reading Chris Voss' book (Never Split The Difference). He has a class in MasterClass as well. Coursera has a couple of negotiation courses. In the past, I received the shorter end of the stick because I'm not good at negotiation. So I'll try to change that.
Happy acquiring skills!
- falcolas 7y agoSomething of an aside, and not a dismissal of any of your points. > Programmable money. How cool is that? It's actually really, really scary. Money is already volatile enough, I would rather we not add a bunch of new bugs and security vulnerabilities to it.
- sanderjd 7y agoHow are you studying corporate finance? What are the canonical / first principles books?
- langitbiru 7y ago"Finance Theory" from Prof. Andrew Lo (MIT). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdHlfiOAJyE&list=PLUl4u3cNGP63B2lDhyKOsImI7FjCf6eDW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdHlfiOAJyE&list=PLUl4u3cNGP... He used "Principles of Corporate Finance" by Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, and Franklin Allen as the text book. I bought it from Google Play. For accounting, I use Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-accounting https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-accounting https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-financial-accounting https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-financial-accounting https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-financial-accounting https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-financial-accounti... There are other courses about finance in Coursera and Youtube but I haven't checked them out. But the ones I listed here are good based on my experience.
- sdinsn 7y ago> Programmable money. How cool is that? Not cool at all, to be honest
- sjapkee 7y ago>I believe Ethereum is the future Bro, you failed at the very beginning.
- mehh 7y agoI really really doubt it, the theory is reasonable, the implementation (Ethereum) is flawed.