STRATEGY & MANAGEMENT
Intelligent vs. Smart (Morgan Housel)
“If you’re merely intelligent, you might focus all of your effort on finding precise truth. If you’re smart, you’ll focus just as much effort on delivering an effective message around that truth, realizing that the most powerful truth does no good if you can’t get people to pay attention to it.”
Addressing the Blackrock/Vanguard Situation (The Plain Bagel)
Does Blackrock, Vanguard, and other massive asset managers secretly run the world? Let's look at the evidence
Walmart exploring buying majority stake in primary care company ChenMed: media report (Fierce Healthcare)
Why economics does not understand business (The Economist)
Microsoft Facing Formal EU Complaint Over Teams Video App (Bloomberg)
The Age of Algorithmic Anxiety (The New Yorker)
MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future (All-In Podcast)
A 3% Mortgage Rate in a 7% World? This Startup Says It Can Do That (WSJ)
INDIA
Want to Attend an Indian Wedding? Now You Can Pay To. (The New York Times)
The stars are aligning for the business of astrology (The Ken)
“The Indian spiritual and religious market is estimated to be worth over $40 billion, of which the horoscope space alone is worth $10 billion…”
CCI is getting a makeover. But… (Finshots)
Decoded: How NPCI-ToneTag’s voice technology-enabled payments through car infotainment devices will work (Money Control)
“The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), in collaboration with ToneTag, is set to offer pay-by-car voice payments for new internet-enabled cars”
Why a tech giant is more relieved than happy as India lifts ban on its mobile game (The Ken)
“Sea Ltd's digital entertainment unit, Garena, has floundered since Free Fire's ban in India, but the US$21.8 billion firm hopes the worst is over as the game's relaunch nears”
RESEARCH
The Paradox of Choice, 10 Years Later (Pacific Standard)
Paul Hiebert talks to psychologist Barry Schwartz about how modern trends—social media, FOMO, customer review sites—fit in with arguments he made a decade ago in his highly influential book, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Strategic Musings
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”
— Milan Kundera