FF Daily #271: How Big Tech wields power
January 12, 2020: Ved Mehta, 1934-2021: The art of seeing; Jeff Bezos and the importance of doing nothing; Revealed! What’s choking the internet
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January 12, 2020: Ved Mehta, 1934-2021: The art of seeing; Jeff Bezos and the importance of doing nothing; Revealed! What’s choking the internet
January 13, 2021: Why TED Talks work; Covid-19 vaccines in India; A weather check on New Year resolutions; Are you still on Twitter?
January 14, 2021: Richard Feynman on leaving room for doubt; How Mumbai Traffic Police became a brand; How to thrive in a vuca world; Privacy vs People
January 15, 2021: Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah on India's data policy; Kishore Mahbubani on RCEP—India’s catastrophic geopolitical decision; Home truths on the India Vs Australia test draw; How privacy used to be
January 16, 2021: How to sort your newsletters—and actually read them
The regulatory pushback was long in the making. And it has as much to do with Alibaba's dominance, a wariness of big businesses, and deeper socio-cultural issues
By the middle of 2015, things became dire for Odisha’s private engineering colleges. Of the state’s 46,000 engineering seats, as many as 30,000 were vacant. In this excerpt from his book ‘Despite the State’, M Rajshekhar tells the story of the boom and bust—in which the students and staff were the only losers