Some reflections on leadership, thinking, what matters most now, gratitude, hope, renewal and more as I review 2020

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• Robert Waldinger
• Marshall Goldsmith
• Paul Graham
• James Clear
• Dov Seidman
• John Gardner
• Marta Zaraska
• George Saunders
• Patrick O’Shaughnessy
• Rutger Bregman
• Leadership
• Vanessa D’Souza
• Patricia Mou
• Naval Ravikant
• Daniel Friedland
• Tim Urban
• Harsh Mander
• Esther Duflo
• Thomas Friedman

Four books show why and how we must reconnect the economy and technology with humanity

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• Systems Thinking
• informal economy
• ethics in technology
• systematic change
• Michael Sandel
• J.C. Kumurappa
• Sven Beckert
• The Tyranny of Merit
• The Universe in a Single Atom
• books
• Empire of Cotton
• Madhav Govindu
• Unemployment
• Dalai Lama
• Deepak Malghan

December 24, 2020: Reinvigorate our minds: Lessons from The Best Business Books of 2020; The year in photos: uncertainty, joy, and hope; What’s more basic than food?

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• Sarthak Banerjee
• books
• learning to learn
• reflection
• R Sriram
• 2020 in photos
• D Shivakumar

December 23, 2020: The Month of Melody in the Year of Pandemic; Regulators vs Big Tech; It’s all so simple, but

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• Dina Srinivasan
• Ranjani and Gayatri
• Big Tech
• regulating technology
• Alan W Watts
• Carnatic music
• faith and belief
• Music Season in Chennai

December 22, 2020: BCCI’s original sin; How to sell finance in China; The art of disinnovation

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• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• S Ramanujan
• Manjul Bhargava
• Sourav Ganguly
• Robert Kanigel
• Zheng Zhiyong
• China Mutual Fund Livestreaming
• BCCI
• Wangjing Bogle

December 21, 2020: Agri reforms and the difference between 1991 and 2000; Why you should start playing chess; The logic of evolution

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• chess
• ability to concentrate
• illusion of control
• farm bill
• Leonard Mlodinow
• Arun Maira
• Jonathan Rowson
• agri reforms

December 18, 2020: Jonathan Haidt on happiness; Why RBI needs a more integrated policy; How to think about how the world works; How to square a circle

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• Jonathan Haidt
• Network Effect
• Happiness and meaningfulness
• Tim Maughan
• RBI policy

December 19, 2020: A year of chaos, resilience and opportunity

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• Ground Realities
• Platforms
• economic slowdown
• reset opportunities
• best of 2020
• India lockdown
• World in 2021
• future of work
• future of higher education
• labour law suspension
• Resilience
• inclusive growth
• Grassroots innovation
• Survival Strategies
• labour migration

December 17, 2020: Robert Caro on the history behind ‘We Shall Overcome’; Rahul Matthan on how he takes notes and connects the dots; Noah Galloway on the Al Bundy Effect; The upside of marriage

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• Noah Galloway
• Rahul Matthan
• Al Bundy Effect
• Robert Caro
• Resilience
• knowledge management
• We Shall Overcome

December 6, 2020: Remembering R Narasimha; Reflections on Obama; Predicting 2021

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• Barack Obama
• Learning skills
• Phillippa Perry
• learning to learn
• R Narasimha