Linkfest: March 04, 2018

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What I am reading today

The contributions of Rene Girard (Marginal REVOLUTION)
From South Asia @ LSE archives: 10 articles on Sino-South Asia relationship (India at LSE)


Snowpack declines in the western U.S. are comparable to all of the water stored the West's largest reservoir (Discover Magazine)
Soul of an Octopus (Barel Karsan)
Why India should lie low if a US-China trade war erupts (Swaminathan A Aiyar)
18 Cognitive Bias Examples Show Why Mental Mistakes Get Made (Visual Capitalist)
Thoughts on men and women (Forbes India Magazine)
Blackberry? (Trends... Find them, ride them and get off.)
Chris Bloomstran: The New Super Investors (Vintage Value Investing)

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