June 17, 2021: Garry Kasparov on competitive people and the complexities of chess; The State vs Big Tech; Amazon Prime; How to write

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• Amazon Prime
• writing
• Susan Cain
• competitive people
• chess
• Big Tech
• Garry Kasparov
• Twitter

How cheap bandwidth and smartphones together with micropayents will affect tectonic shifts in telecom, TV and Bollywood, retail, banking and more

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• Digital disruption
• fintech
• user-generated regional content
• Chinese smartphones
• Netflix
• India Stack
• Airtel
• Amazon
• Jio
• Vodafone
• Flipkart
• food tech
• video streaming
• Aadhaar
• banking
• DTH
• Privacy
• Amazon Prime
• gaming
• eCommerce
• data protection
• Walmart
• blended commerce

The euphoria around Flipkart’s recent acquisition of Jabong may be a tad misplaced. After all, there are far bigger competitive issues at stake that could define the next phase of growth of Indian e-commerce

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• Amazon Prime
• Myntra
• Snapdeal
• Acquisitions
• Amazon
• Flipkart
• e-commerce
• Jabong

Why customers behave the way they do and what you can do to influence their behaviour

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• Starbucks
• fear of regret
• social proof
• loss aversion
• Zara
• Amazon Prime
• The Economist
• OnePlus
• Bagpiper whisky
• expert bias
• sunk cost fallacy
• Behavioural science
• scarcity effect
• Sensodyne