Reading through the library of YCombinator, came across this awesome "lesson on elementary worldly wisdom" by Charlie Munger.

Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return than the business which underlies it earns. If the business earns 6% on capital over 40 years and you hold it for that 40 years, you're not going to make much different than a 6% return—even if you originally buy it at a huge discount. Conversely, if a business earns 18% on capital over 20 or 30 years, even if you pay an expensive looking …

Stumbled across this post on Quora on "How can I make life simpler?"

It has some good Calvin cartoon strips:

And also some good tips:

Ask for help

Carry less stuff in your pockets

Clean out your house, purge your belongings of anything you haven't used in five years

Eliminate clutter on your desk

I would also add "Zero Inbox" to the list.

Link: http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-make-my-life-simpler

There are some very useful CSS2 features which allow the authors to get control on how the pages are printed.

Avoid the page breaks just after headings

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { page-break-after : avoid }

page-break-after properties accept the auto, always, avoid, left, and right keywords.

The keyword auto is the default, it lets the browser generate page breaks as needed. The keyword always forces a page break before or after the element, while avoid suppresses a page break immediately before or after the element. The left and right keywords force one or two …

{google:baseURL}search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=%s

Before ignoring this tip, I would highly recommend you to try the above as the default search engine in Chrome (at-least for a week). It is the Google's "I am Feeling Lucky™" search.

I began using the "I am Feeling Lucky" (IAFL) link in one of my websites to link to specific details. The results were overwhelming as the accuracy was more than 90%. Since then I started using it as my default search engine.

The biggest advantage of using IAFL is that it makes you more productive. Traditionally, you first input the search …

This an awesome compilation of some super-useful life-hacks. Few of my favourite ones from the link:

See the complete list

This is wow! Earlier I used to make a score list of daily rituals to get the important (and un-motivating) things done. DayScore converts that concept into an awesome web platform to "reinforce positive habits by keeping score."

I have set the service as one of my opening tabs in Chrome.

Link: http://dayscore.net/

I often wondered why the crowd of computer shops exist only at one place in our city; why all those big garment showrooms open next to each other; or even why all the shops of musical instruments open only at one place (and those at other places get closed).

This video answers that well, in a simple animation.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jILgxeNBK_8&feature=share