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

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

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

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

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