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FF Daily #285: The cult of not quitting
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

FF Daily #285: The cult of not quitting

January 29, 2021: When quitting is a good idea; What should we take away from GameStop rally; How writers write; The Friday Work Day

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FF Daily #284: The moral high ground
·Leadership & Organisation

FF Daily #284: The moral high ground

January 28, 2021: Kumar Mangalam Birla on the year that was; How to apologize; Allocate time wisely

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How tech firms are eating media
·Technology & the Future

How tech firms are eating media

This Week in Disruptive Tech | January 27, 2021: The media business; Sangeet Paul Choudary on empowering workers; Will Clubhouse click in India

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor, Founding Fuel

FF Daily #280: The framing trap
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

FF Daily #280: The framing trap

January 22, 2021: Framing the problem right; Toe the line, WhatsApp!; Why you must wear a mask after getting vaccinated; When Haryana meets Silicon Valley

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FF Daily #277: Multipliers vs Diminishers
·Leadership & Organisation

FF Daily #277: Multipliers vs Diminishers

January 19, 2021: Liz Wiseman on leadership; Jack Ma vs the Chinese state; How Moderna’s vaccine was 33 years in the making; Who runs the government?

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An engineering college boom built on a foundation of dysfunction
·Economy, Policy & Society

An engineering college boom built on a foundation of dysfunction

By the middle of 2015, things became dire for Odisha’s private engineering colleges. Of the state’s 46,000 engineering seats, as many as 30,000 were vacant. In this excerpt from his book ‘Despite the State’, M Rajshekhar tells the story of the boom and bust—in which the students and staff were the only losers

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M. Rajshekhar

M. Rajshekhar

Energy reporter and author

The hidden fault lines behind Jack Ma’s fall
·Economy, Policy & Society

The hidden fault lines behind Jack Ma’s fall

The regulatory pushback was long in the making. And it has as much to do with Alibaba's dominance, a wariness of big businesses, and deeper socio-cultural issues

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G Venkat Raman

G Venkat Raman

Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Management, Indore