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

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

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

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

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