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   by imakwana 5y ago

   The Startup of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha. There are lessons in this book which go far beyond conceptual origin of LinkedIn. There are network effects in labor market which can be systematically harnessed to accelerate one's
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   by imakwana 5y ago

   Bogleheads Wiki is the definitive resource, Start from the Getting Started page: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started Once you grasp the essentials, you can deep dive further with the recommended reading lis
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   by imakwana 6y ago

   From an asset allocation perspective, rebalancing triggers/alerts would be very useful. There are mainly two types: 1) Time based (monthly, quarterly or annually), 2) based on rebalancing bands such as 5/25 (i.e. 5% absolute devia
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   by imakwana 6y ago

   For deep dive into quantitative analysis of leveraged portfolios, this analysis on Bogleheads Blog by forum member Siamond is very insightful: https://www.bogleheads.org/blog/2020/01/31/leveraged-portfol.
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   by imakwana 6y ago

   Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architecture by Jon Stokes.
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   by imakwana 6y ago

   My understanding, from US based hiring perspective, is that MS degree is purely for getting ahead of existing competition in the job market, to potentially stand out among vast pools of BS grads applying for the same position. Moreover, I a
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   by imakwana 6y ago

   In a similar boat, currently a Design Verification engineer, planning to apply for Georgia Tech Online Masters in Computer Science (OMSCS) to get out of semiconductor industry and move towards to cloud-computing based software companies for
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   by imakwana 6y ago

   The Startup of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha. It helped me in my early career right after graduation and influenced my career trajectory thereafter. I haven't lived up to the ideal that is set out in the book but it has been a g
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   by imakwana 6y ago

   > Semiconductor engineering is still a career suicide though, that haven't changed in the last few decades. This is so true. I am currently a hardware engineer and planning to switch to software. If you are not in Nvidia, Apple or o
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    by imakwana 6y ago

    Assuming that in order to preserve wealth you are targeting 4-5% safe withdrawal rate (including inflation adjustments), an all-weather portfolio or risk parity type of portfolios can serve this purpose well and designed to be very resilien
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    by imakwana 6y ago

    For finance: 1) https://quant.stackexchange.com/ forum is worth following 2) https://quantocracy.com/ for article aggregators but no support for comments
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    by imakwana 6y ago

    For learning below courses and books are very helpful: 1) Online courses: Computation Structures: Parts 1, 2 and 3 - all course materials available on EdX MIT as well as MIT OCW 2) Books: a) Computer Systems: A Programmers Perspective and b
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    by imakwana 6y ago

    You have absolutely nailed it. Over the past 7 years, I have observed EDA tooling frustrating to the point that RTL design/verification/structural engineers in my $megacorp company abandoned this entire industry and move to softwa
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    by imakwana 6y ago

    Highly recommend these references: 1) Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface by David Patterson and John Hennessy 2) Computation Structures course and associated course material from MIT OCW, checkout links [
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    by imakwana 6y ago

    Not exactly stocks but for wide ranging topics in terms of Asset Allocation this forum is highly recommended: Bogleheads sub-forum Investing Theory, News and General : https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=10
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    by imakwana 6y ago

    Second this recommendation of the works of William Bernstein, all of his books are excellent and highly pragmatic for individual investors.
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    by imakwana 6y ago

    Vanguard also offers "Tax-managed" funds which have significantly less yield/distributions compared to corresponding index funds [1]. [1] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Tax-managed_fund_comparison
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    by imakwana 6y ago

    +1. Bogleheads has an amazing community maintained wiki. I would add that their recommended reading list of books is also excellent: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Books:_recommendations_and_r...
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    by imakwana 6y ago

    Compounding of continuous improvement in daily life, similar to compounding of an equity portfolio. In other words, focusing on "Aggregation of Marginal Gains" in all aspects of life [1]. [1] https://jamesclear.com&#x2F
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    by imakwana 6y ago

    +1. Bogleheads Wiki is a goldmine of sound investing principles and personal finance. Also highly recommend their books reading list: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Books:_recommendations_and_r...
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    Repetition Economics – The Story of Hunter, Mammoth and Wolves(breakingthemarket.com)

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    by imakwana 6y ago

    Stumbling upon "Latticework of Mental Models" concept of Charlie Munger [1] really helped me over the years to develop mental clarity, ignore noise and focus on fundamentals in many aspects of life. [1] https://fs.blog&
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    by imakwana 6y ago

    Thanks for mentioning this. Bogleheads Wiki [1] is a goldmine of index investing and asset allocation insights for every stage of an individual investor's lifecycle. Highly recommended. [1] https://www.bogleheads.org/wi
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    by imakwana 7y ago

    Perhaps trend-line based approach that you described is similar to the strategy called "Value Averaging" which is a valuation based approach to averaging (instead of dollar cost averaging), where CAPE ratio or expected return is u
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    by imakwana 7y ago

    Federal Reserve publishes weekly mortgage rates for conventional mortgages Conventional 15 year fixed : https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE15US Conventional 30 year fixed : https://fred.stlouisfed.or
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    by imakwana 7y ago

    ACM Queue magazine/newsletter [1] has free access to all articles and insightful essays on various computer science and software engineering topics. [1] https://dl.acm.org/magazine/queue
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    by imakwana 7y ago

    Udacity courses on high performance computing are good MOOCs [1][2]. Also MIT's Computation Structures course [3] covers some quantitative performance modeling. [1] https://www.udacity.com/course/high-performance-c
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    by imakwana 7y ago

    1) Total Freedom : The Essential Krishnamurti. Selected writings of Jiddu Krishnamurti from his 50+ years of lectures and notes to self. 2) Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion, by Sam Harris. An amazing masterpiece on a rati
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    by imakwana 7y ago

    I highly recommend to you to post your question on the Bogleheads forum [1], specifically within its "Non-US Investors" category/sub-forum. There is a lot of expertise in that forum regarding international investing in genera
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    by imakwana 7y ago

    Not OP but I believe he is referring to the concept of Financial Independence. There is an excellent reddit community and wiki on the topic [1]. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/wiki/faq