
Chip War – The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology
Power in the modern world – military, economic, geopolitical – is built on a foundation of computer chips. America has maintained its lead as a superpower because it has dominated advances in computer chips and all the technology that chips have enabled. Now that edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by the naïve assumption that globalising the chip industry...
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
From 1733 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin, the Founding Father of the United States of America, dispensed useful and timeless advice through his book Poor Richard’s Almanack (“Poor Richard” being the pseudonym adopted by Benjamin Franklin for this purpose). Among the virtues extolled were thrift, duty, hard work, and simplicity. Then some two and fifty hundred years later Charlie Munger stepped...