March 22, 2022: The rest of 2022; The outliers; The evolution of life

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• Tags
• work and travel in 2022
• COVID-19
• Sree Sreenivasan
• How Buildings Learn
• FF Insights
• Stewart Brand

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

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

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

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

June 7, 2021: Bertrand Russell on love of power; Covid lessons India failed to learn; Tracing the virus; [Music] Performing Conversations

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• Jean Luc Ponty
• COVID-19
• L Subramaniam
• Chinmay Tumbe
• Bertrand Russell
• power
• origins of coronavirus
• Billy Cobham

A conversation with Chinmay Tumbe, author of ‘The Age of Pandemics’, where he talks about lessons from cholera, Spanish influenza and plague; why policy response lags the science; and what this could mean for India’s urbanisation and political leadership

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• pandemic
• COVID-19
• pandemic management
• public health policy
• urbanisation
• rural economy
• political leadership
• Urban Planning
• managing health crisis
• labour migration

June 5, 2021 | FF Daily #390: Advice for students and parents on how to think about the next steps

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• Indian vs foreign universities
• higher education
• FF Recommends
• Covid-19

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

May 11, 2021: Iqbal Chahal on Centre-state relations; When Covid strikes; Song for the day: Sumiran

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• Sumiran
• Centre-state relationships
• Mumbai Covid-19
• Covid-19
• On bullshit
• Iqbal Singh Chahal
• Harry G. Frankfurt

April 5, 2021: Covid-19’s new wave: Why it’s different but changes nothing; Combating Zoom overload; After the jab

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• ending the pandemic
• Stephen King
• Zoom overload
• Covid-19
• Writing
• Govindraj Ethiraj
• Rakesh Mishra
• Tanu Singhal
• Covid variants
• Bill Gates

February 10, 2021: What will you do with an extra hour?; Have you hit the pandemic wall?; When blood meets water

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• pandemic
• COVID-19
• Stress
• Stefan Bucher
• Taggart Bonham
• Ultralearning