August 18, 2021: Dr Soumya Swaminathan on preparing for a third wave and opening schools; Understanding tech-speak; What fast food really is

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• Afghanistan
• Mark Bowden
• tech jargon
• Soumya Swaminathan
• Covid-19 third wave

August 17, 2021: How Giant Bicycles became a leading brand; The power of digital vouchers; What Indians want

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• Afghanistan
• Chris Hedges
• Innovation
• Dan Breznitz
• digital vouchers
• Giant Bicycles
• Ashok Pal Singh
• e-RUPI
• RS Sharma
• The Great Game

August 14, 2021 | FF Recommends: Glimpses into history and insights on what the future may look like

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• Ramachandra Guha
• Jennifer Doudna
• books
• Anirudha Krishna
• Lou Marinoff
• Independence Day Special
• Subhas Chandra Bose
• Srinath Raghavan
• Stephen Fry
• Samuel H Sternberg
• Santosh Desai
• Tirthankar Roy
• FF Recommends
• James Suzman

August 13, 2021: Note from a start-up CEO; The true toll of Covid-19; Mike Tyson on social media

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• TK Arun
• Sam Corcos
• Productivity
• negotiating skills
• memo culture
• Chris Voss
• Covid-19

August 12, 2021: What’s going wrong with online classes; How long will a ‘fresh start’ effect last; The nuanced art of not knowing

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• Jonathan Haidt
• online classes
• Andrew McAfee
• social disconnect
• habit change
• Herminia Ibarra

August 11, 2021: The modern age; An education emergency; Code Red: Innovating for sustainability; Read the fine print

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• ESG
• online education
• Will Durant
• the Agricultural Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• David Taylor
• Climate Change
• Ethnography

August 10, 2021: The battle for techies; How Nicobar islanders escaped the deadly second wave; What Indian parents want

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• generalists
• Exxon Valdez oil spill
• tech hiring in India
• Covid-19
• Nicobar
• techies and fuzzies
• David Epstein

August 9, 2021: Indian women’s hockey team at Tokyo Olympics; Ed Catmull on Steve Jobs; Oliver Burkeman on getting creative work done; Workplace diversity

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• Tokyo Olympics
• Steve Jobs
• creative work
• Pixar
• Ed Catmull
• Indian women’s hockey team
• Oliver Burkeman
• Sharda Ugra
• deep work

August 7, 2021 | FF Daily #444: Sports puts human beings in tough situations, and millions watch how they respond. There is much to learn

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• Leadership
• Simon Taufel
• Unmukt Chand
• Steve Waugh
• MS Dhoni
• Virat Kohli
• Michael Phelps
• FF Recommends
• learning from sports
• coaching
• Roger Federer

August 6, 2021: What’s changing in Indian sports; How to prepare for disasters: Lessons from Japan; Support vs. applause

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• Viren Rasquinha
• flying machine
• Atanu Das
• Satoru Nishikawa
• disaster management
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Indian sports
• Abhinav Bindra
• Fritjof Capra