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

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

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

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

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