June 1, 2021: Ian Leslie on asking questions; A beauty upstart; Oslo and the art of negotiation; It’s Alright Ma

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• Gaza conflict
• Tirje Rod-Larsen
• Aavrani
• Bartlett Sher
• Oslo Peace Accords
• Ian Leslie
• Bob Dylan
• Curiosity
• Mona Juul
• Oslo

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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• Chinmay Tumbe
• Shankar Vedantam
• pandemic
• shareholder letters
• COVID-19
• self-deception
• Elizabeth Howell
• Starry Night

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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• Indian beauty brands
• Rooshy Roy
• I-Beauty
• Justin Silver
• Aavrani

FF Recommends: Focus and get things done

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• Focus
• social media habits
• Thomas Davenport
• Daniel Goleman
• David Allen

May 28, 2021: The search for meaning; Team versus Family; Laughter (painting)

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• Privacy
• Rahul Matthan
• Benode Behari Mukherjee
• Viktor Frankl
• Tobi Lutke
• GoI vs WhatsApp
• Team

May 27, 2021: Why do new ideas meet with resistance; The politics of Gandhi; Zoom fatigue; Here comes the sun

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• David Schonthal
• Paul Simon
• Loran Nordgren
• Louis Fischer
• Change management
• Zoom fatigue
• Mahatma Gandhi
• George Harrison

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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• Amazon
• Satya Nadella
• Brad Stone
• hybrid working
• Jeff Bezos
• Atul Gawande

May 25, 2021: Daniel Goleman on reading emotional signals; The world is not a machine; Mixing vaccines; Invictus

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• reading emotional signals
• Daniel Goleman
• Morgan Freeman
• Covid-19 vaccine
• mixing vaccines
• Invictus
• Arun Maira
• Polly Roy

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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• The Serenity Prayer
• Marie-Helene Zerah
• deep work
• bitcoin
• cryptocurrencies
• Focus
• Urban Planning
• Cal Newport
• Paul Krugman

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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• local solutions
• Systems Thinking
• economies of scope
• Covid-19 vaccine IPR
• Governance
• capitalism
• Deep listening
• economics policy frameworks