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16:24, 16 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Talk:Beating the Street (Book) (Created page with "=== Highlights === * The text is fortified with liberal doses of Peter’s Principles, such as the two you’ve already had to tolerate. Many of these lessons I’ve learned from experience, which is always an expensive teacher, so you’re getting them here at a discount. * It’s human nature to keep doing something as long as it’s pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to increase at a rapid rate. * You should i...")
16:24, 16 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Beating the Street (Book) (Created page with "thumb|right|alt=Beating the Street (Book Cover) - Peter Lynch|Beating the Street - Peter Lynch === Snippets and Highlights === <blockquote> This was the perfect scenario for the disciplined stockpicker to search his or her buy lists for likely prospects. The headlines were negative, the Dow Jones average had lost 600 points over the summer and the early fall, cabdrivers were recommending bonds, mutual-fund managers...")
16:20, 16 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:Beating-the-street-peter-lynch-book-cover.jpg
16:20, 16 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs uploaded File:Beating-the-street-peter-lynch-book-cover.jpg
16:20, 15 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Talk:Collapse of the French Ancien Regime (Created page with "=== Significant Events === * '''Proximate Cause''': The Estates General of 1789. This was a meeting of the three estates of pre-revolutionary France. The three estates being the clergy, the nobility, and the commons. The problem was that the finances of the French regime were a shambles. (cue: John Law and his scheme earlier in the century). The entire tax burden was on the commons, but the nobility and the clergy had a lot of benefits. Predictably, the commons revolted,...")
16:01, 15 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Politics and Economics (Created page with " == Politics == === Historical Events === {{LinkEntry|Collapse of the French Ancien Regime}}")
15:54, 15 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Talk:Junkyard Planet (Book) (Created page with " tags PendingZettelkasten ◆ Introduction * The global recycling industry turns over as much as $500 billion annually—roughly equal to the GDP of Norway—and employs more people than any other industry on the planet except agriculture. * Wire insulation isn’t the highest quality plastic, but it’s good enough to make simple products like … slipper soles! These days, the biggest customers for Raymond’s Christmas tree insulation are slipper sole manufacturers....")
15:53, 15 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Junkyard Planet (Book) (Created page with "thumb|right|alt=Junkyard Planet Book Cover|Junkyard Planet - Adam Minter === Snippets and Highlights ===")
15:52, 15 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:Junkyard planet book cover.jpg
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15:21, 15 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:Alchemy-book-cover.jpg
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15:19, 15 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Alchemy (Book) (Created page with " === Snippets and Highlights === <blockquote> The late David Ogilvy, one of the greats of the American advertising industry and the founder of the company I work for, apparently once said, 'The trouble with market research is that people don’t think what they feel, they don’t say what they think, and they don’t do what they say.' </blockquote> <blockquote> Imagine you have ten roles to fill, and you ask ten colleagues to each hire one person. Obviously each perso...")
15:15, 15 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Talk:Alchemy (Book) (Created page with "=== Highlights from the book === ◆ Some Things Are Dishwasher-Proof, Others Are Reason-Proof * If you are wholly predictable, people learn to hack you. ◆ The Danger of Technocratic Elites * Perhaps a plausible ‘why’ should not be a pre-requisite in deciding a ‘what’, and the things we try should not be confined to those things whose future success we can most easily explain in retrospect. The record of science in some ways casts doubt on a scientific appr...")
05:33, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Weather Systems (Created page with "{{LinkEntry|El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO)}} {{LinkEntry|Indian Ocean Dipole}} {{LinkEntry|North Atlantic Oscillation}} {{LinkEntry|Thermohaline Circulation}} {{LinkEntry|Humboldt Current}}")
05:31, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Science, Technology, and Nature (Created page with "=== Nature === {{CardGridStart}} {{Card|Weather Systems|icon=⛈️|desc=The core weather systems that affect climate on the planet}} {{CardGridEnd}}")
05:22, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Stories of Fraud (Created page with "{{LinkEntry|IvarKreuger|The story of the Swedish Match Company}} {{LinkEntry|Enron}} {{LinkEntry|WorldCom}} {{LinkEntry|Bernie Madoff}} {{LinkEntry|SatyamComputers}}")
05:12, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Jesse Livermore (Created page with "{{HalfFormedThoughts}} === Big Ideas === * '''It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!''': This is not the idea of "buy-and-hold". It is the idea of waiting for the exact right setup and time, before pulling the trigger.")
05:09, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Modern Bubbles and Crashes (Created page with "There are the modern market booms and crashes. This is separate from economic crises and events, that we record separately. {{LinkEntry|Crash of 1929}} {{LinkEntry|The Go-Go years of the 1960s}} {{LinkEntry|Crash of 1987}} {{LinkEntry|Harshad Mehta Boom and Bust}} {{LinkEntry|Dot-com crash of 2001}} {{LinkEntry|Global Financial Crisis 2008}}")
04:30, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page George Soros (Created page with "{{HalfFormedThoughts}} === Big Ideas === * '''Reflexivity''': Not only does business/macroeconomics reality affect financial markets, the financial markets in turn end up affecting macroeconomy and business reality. This is the source of the massive positive feedback cycle in markets.")
03:47, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Psychology and Story-telling (Created page with " === Master Marketers === {{LinkEntry|Rory Sutherland}}")
03:46, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Rory Sutherland (Created page with "{{HalfFormedThoughts}} === Big Ideas === * '''There are two ways of making money. You can either make desirable things, or you can make things desirable.''' And there's not much you can do about the laws of physics. But the laws of psychology are magnificently malleable.")
03:24, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Peter Lynch (Created page with "{{StillToStart}} See the Discussion page for raw dump of resources/ideas")
03:23, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Talk:Peter Lynch (Created page with " One of the best summarization of Peter Lynch's investment style and lessons is by Mayur Jain. His Peter Lynch playbook is an excellent resource. [https://mjbaldbard.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/the-peter-lynch-playbook.pdf|The Peter Lynch playbook]")
03:13, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Common.css (Created page with "CSS placed here will be applied to all skins: .hwgh-card-overlay a { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0; display: block; text-decoration: none; color: inherit; z-index: 1; }")
03:08, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Lessons from investors (Created page with "{{CardGridStart}} {{Card|Peter Lynch|image=Peter-lynch.webp|desc=Peter Lynch}} {{CardGridEnd}}")
03:07, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:Peter-lynch.webp (A picture of the investor Peter Lynch)
03:07, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs uploaded File:Peter-lynch.webp (A picture of the investor Peter Lynch)
03:02, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Business, Finance, and Investing (Created page with "{{CardGridStart}} {{Card|Lessons from investors|icon=💡|desc=Lessons from the greatest investors and traders}} {{CardGridEnd}}")
03:00, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Template:CardGridEnd (Created page with "</div><noinclude> == Usage == Closes a card grid opened with {{tl|CardGridStart}}. </noinclude>")
03:00, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Template:Card (Created page with "<div style="background: #fff; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-radius: 4px; padding: 18px; box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.08);">{{#if:{{{icon|}}}|<div style="font-size: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 6px;">{{{icon}}}</div>}}'''[[{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]'''{{#if:{{{desc|}}}|<div style="color: #666; font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 4px;">{{{desc}}}</div>}}</div><noinclude> == Usage == <pre> {{Card|Page Name}} {{Card|Page Name|icon=🌾|desc=Short description of the page.}} </pre> '''Parame...")
03:00, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Template:CardGridStart (Created page with "<div style="display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(220px, 1fr)); gap: 16px; margin-bottom: 32px;"><noinclude> == Usage == Opens a card grid. Must be paired with {{tl|CardGridEnd}}, with one or more {{tl|Card}} calls in between. See Template:Card for the full pattern. </noinclude>")
02:56, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Collapse of the French Ancien Regime (Created page with "{{StillToStart}}")
02:54, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Template:HalfFormedThoughts (Created page with "<div style="border-left: 3px solid #3a6ea5; background: #f2f7fc; padding: 12px 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 0.95em;"> '''Half-formed thoughts.''' This page has content but isn't organized yet — treat it as a working draft, not a finished entry.{{#if:{{{1|}}}| ''{{{1}}}''}} </div>Category:Half-formed thoughts<noinclude> == Usage == <pre> {{HalfFormedThoughts}} {{HalfFormedThoughts|Needs a clearer structure around the second half — currently just a dump.}}...")
02:54, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Template:StillToStart (Created page with "<div style="border-left: 3px solid #b08800; background: #fffaf0; padding: 12px 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 0.95em;"> '''Still to start.''' This page exists as a placeholder — nothing's been written yet.{{#if:{{{1|}}}| ''{{{1}}}''}} </div>Category:Still to start<noinclude> == Usage == <pre> {{StillToStart}} {{StillToStart|A one-line note on what this page will eventually cover.}} </pre> Adds the page to Category:Still to start so you can pull up every...")
12:56, 13 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Template:LinkEntry (Created page with "<div style="border-left: 3px solid #1a1a2e; padding-left: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px;">'''[[{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]'''{{#if:{{{2|}}}| — {{{2}}}}}</div><noinclude> == Usage == <pre> {{LinkEntry|Page Name|Optional short description.}} </pre> '''Parameters:''' ;1 : Required. The page title to link to. ;2 : Optional. A short description shown after the link. Leave it out for a link-only entry. '''Example:''' <pre> {{LinkEntry|The Neolithic Revolution|Why farming won out over fo...")
06:21, 12 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:The first Indian trading posts of the East India Company.png (The East India Company set up its first couple of trading posts (factories) at Masulipatnam on the East Coast in 1611, and then Surat in 1613.)
06:21, 12 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs uploaded File:The first Indian trading posts of the East India Company.png (The East India Company set up its first couple of trading posts (factories) at Masulipatnam on the East Coast in 1611, and then Surat in 1613.)
04:50, 12 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page British East India Company (Created page with "{{Organization |name=British East India Company |creation_date=1600 }}")
04:50, 12 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Template:Organization (Created page with "{{Infobox |title={{{name|{{PAGENAME}}}}} |image={{{image|}}} |caption={{{caption|}}} |rows= {{Infobox row |label=Created |value={{{creation_date|}}} }} }}")
18:48, 11 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Minerva.css (Created page with "All CSS here will be loaded for users of the MinervaNeue skin: body.page-Main_Page .firstHeading { display: none; } body.page-Main_Page #content { padding-top: 0; } body.page-Main_Page .mw-body { margin-top: 0; }")
18:32, 11 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page TestPage (Created page with "{{#ask: Has birth place::Trier |?Has birth date |?Has death date |sort=Has birth date |order=ascending |format=table |mainlabel=Person }}")
17:59, 11 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:Timeless-horizons-banner.png
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17:44, 11 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Foundations:About (Created page with "This wiki is about the story of how the world got to be the way it is. We don't try to cover everything. We pick out the events, ideas, and people that actually mattered, and explain why they mattered. Take Karl Marx as an example. We don't care where he was born or what his childhood was like. You can read that on Wikipedia. What we care about is what he actually thought, why he thought it, and what happened because of it. Same with ideas. Each idea gets its own page...")
17:26, 11 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Karl Marx (Created page with "{{Person |name=Karl Marx |birth_date=5 May 1818 |death_date=14 March 1883 |occupation=Philosopher; Economist |nationality=Prussian }}")
17:26, 11 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Template:Person (Created page with "{{Infobox |title={{{name|{{PAGENAME}}}}} |image={{{image|}}} |caption={{{caption|}}} |rows= {{Infobox row |label=Born |value={{{birth_date|}}} }} {{Infobox row |label=Died |value={{{death_date|}}} }} {{Infobox row |label=Occupation |value={{{occupation|}}} }} {{Infobox row |label=Nationality |value={{{nationality|}}} }} }}")
17:24, 11 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Template:Infobox/styles.css (Created page with ".infobox { float: right; clear: right; width: 300px; margin: 0 0 1em 1.5em; border: 1px solid #a2a9b1; background: #f8f9fa; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.5; } .infobox-image { text-align: center; padding: 8px; } .infobox-image img { max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .infobox-caption { padding: 0 8px 8px; text-align: center; font-size: 0.85em; color: #54595d; } .infobox-title { padding: 8px; fon...")
17:23, 11 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Template:Infobox row (Created page with "{{#if:{{{value|}}}| <div class="infobox-row"> <div class="infobox-label">{{{label}}}</div> <div class="infobox-value">{{{value}}}</div> </div> }}")
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