·Economy, Policy & Society
FF Daily #385: Age of pandemics
May 31, 2021: Chinmay Tumbe on the difficulties of forecasting in a pandemic; Best shareholder letters; On self-deception; Starry Night
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
An Indian beauty upstart in the West
A new breed of South Asian women entrepreneurs is leading Americans to embrace the Indian grandmother’s age-old beauty secrets in new easy-to-use ways. As a marketing strategy, it is Indian tradition marketed in digitally native formats
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Aparajita (Opu) Bhattacharyya
Product Strategy & Monetization | Microsoft Azure, Seattle
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Tune out social media angst and re-energise to focus on what is important
FF Recommends: Focus and get things done
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
FF Daily #383: GoI versus WhatsApp
May 28, 2021: The search for meaning; Team versus Family; Laughter (painting)
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
FF Daily #382: The battle between fuel and friction
May 27, 2021: Why do new ideas meet with resistance; The politics of Gandhi; Zoom fatigue; Here comes the sun
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
FF Daily #381: Learning through practice
May 26, 2021: Atul Gawande on how patients benefit from teaching resident doctors; Brad Stone on the invention of the Amazon empire; Satya Nadella on the hybrid work paradox; Justice explained
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·Economy, Policy & Society
FF Daily #380: Reading between the lines
May 25, 2021: Daniel Goleman on reading emotional signals; The world is not a machine; Mixing vaccines; Invictus
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·Economy, Policy & Society
FF Daily #379: Underdeveloped urban India
May 24, 2021: Cal Newport on focus and deep work; Why Indian cities remain underdeveloped; Bitcoin spells trouble; The Serenity Prayer
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·Economy, Policy & Society
Power to the people
The vaccine crisis is yet another proof that principles of capitalism are at variance with the needs of humanity. Instead of top-down policies, focus on profits and economies of scale, local on-the-ground solutions and the economies of scope that they bring, can be the founding fuel for transformative change
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
·Economy, Policy & Society
The virus has upgraded itself. Have you?
FF Recommends: The right mask and the right way to wear it
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Anmol Shrivastava
Entrepreneur, strategist, and technology consultant
·Leadership & Organisation
FF Daily #376: The value of a real one-on-one
May 20, 2021: Adam Kahane on changing things one person at a time; How Delhi came out of its oxygen crisis; What Bill Gates badly wanted; [Music] Karpur Gauram
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·Economy, Policy & Society
FF Daily #375: Why humans resist change
May 19, 2021: Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Chilean film-maker Miguel Littin; An impending digital art boom?; Mayday signals from Middle India; [Song] Gracias a la Vida
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
FF Daily #374: How to read stories
May 18, 2021: Why real-world stories help; A geriatric millennial; Aasai mugam by Vidya & Vandana
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·Technology & the Future
Could NFTs redefine equal opportunity in a digital art world?
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) can democratize access, amplify an artist’s, especially a woman’s, voice and choice, and promote allyship
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Aparajita (Opu) Bhattacharyya
Product Strategy & Monetization | Microsoft Azure, Seattle
·Economy, Policy & Society
The birth of a model scientific institute
Hari Pulakkat tells the story of how Homi Bhabha set up TIFR in this extract from his new book, ‘Space. Life. Matter: The Coming of Age of Indian Science’
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Hari Pulakkat
Science journalist and writer