headache – Karthik Shashidhar

education, IIM, work accounting, campus recruitment, cv, disservice, fair share, few days, finance, football team, headache, hostel, iimb, job, pertinent observations, priorities, resume, shortlist, summer internship, wing football

A View From the Other Side

November 4, 2009

For the first time ever, a few days bck, I was involved in looking at resumes for campus recruitment, and helping people in coming up with a shortlist. These were resumes from IIMB and we were looking to recruit for the summer internship. Feeling slightly jobless, I ended up taking more than my fair share…

arbit, business, economics, finance, fundaes, randomness, relationships accounting statements, aggregate, amp, balance sheet, bryan caplan, corporates, domination, headache, incremental change, interpersonal relationships, intervals, judgment, loser, major components, occasions, randomness, taleb, time period, volatility

A Balance Sheet View of Life

October 31, 2009

The basic idea of this post is that interpersonal relationships (not necessarily romantic) need to be treated as balance sheets and not as P&L statements, i.e. one should always judge based on the overall all-time aggregate rather than the last incremental change in situation. Just to give you a quick overview of accounting, the annual…