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  • Marginal Revenue University

    Economics

    A YouTube Channel that explains basic economic concepts and also shows applications of those concepts in our everyday lives. They have multiple engaging video series such as "Women in Economics", "Econometrics" and "Principles of Microeconomics" with small 10-15 minute videos

  • How IKEA gets you to impulsively buy more

    Marketing

    The video briefly talks about the Gruen Effect and how store architecture is important in influencing behavior to make people indulge in impulse buying

  • The Seen and Unseen - A Venture Capitalist Sees the World

    Business and Management

    This podcast, which features guest Sajith Pai (Director, Blume Ventures), explores what Sajith has learnt about media, entrepreneurship and the startup ecosystem in India, through his time as a journalist and as a director of a VC firm. He shares an interesting socio-economic segmentation of India - India 1, 2 and 3 - and how serving each market is like serving a different country. The podcast also has a link of articles along with it which will be of great interest to those of you who want to better understand the startup funding and valuation, among other things

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  • Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

    The book that inspired the movie "Moneyball", this is a brilliant read that gives you a great perspective not just of statistics and management, but also baseball - the game. The book's popularity has also helped it to find its way into the official reading lists of B-schools such as Wharton and HBS

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People

    Business and Management

    Although this book may have been released in 1936, it remains one of the most popular and important (and for some, also divisive) books in the field of management. The book dives into ways of managing and handling people and ways to convince them to think in your way

  • Prospect Theory and Loss Aversion

    Behavioural Finance

    Prospect theory is one amongst the many basic theories which form the basis of behavioural finance. As per PT, when choosing among several alternatives, people avoid losses and optimize for sure wins because the pain of losing is greater than the satisfaction of an equivalent gain

  • The CEO Factory: Management Lessons from Hindustan Unilever

    Business and Management

    Written by Sudhir Sitapati, one of the Directors who spent his entire career in HUL, this book delves behind the giant machine that is HUL and how it has managed to produce so many individuals that went on to become CEOs of other large brands/companies. It highlights how marketing is the heart of every business and how HUL has been able to learn and leverage that fact for years

  • Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

    Marketing

    Martin Lindstrom analyzes what makes people buy and attempts to identify the factors that influence buyers' decisions in a world cluttered with messages such as advertisements, slogans, jingle and celebrity endorsements.

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  • Fareed Zakaria. 2015. In defense of a liberal education. WW Norton & Company

    • Law

  • A Primer on The Right to Information Act, 2005
    (Paper)
  • Marie-Bénédicte Dembour: Human Rights - Four schools of thought
    We do not all conceive of human rights the same way. Marie-Bénédicte Dembour argues that there are four schools of thought regarding human rights - that rights are given, fought for, agreed upon and talked about.

    • History

  • E H Carr: What Is History?
    E H Carr discusses history, facts, the bias of historians, science, morality, individuals and society, and moral judgements in history. The book originated in a series of lectures given by Carr in 1961 at the University of Cambridge. The lectures were intended as a broad introduction into the subject of the theory of history and their accessibility has resulted in in the book becoming one of the key texts in the field of historiography.

    • General

  • Luce Irigaray: Is the Subject of Science Sexed?
    In this paper, Luce Irigaray, linguist, psychoanalyst, and feminist philosopher, examines the uses and misuses of language in relation to women. She was best known for her theory of "sexual difference," according to which the supposedly sexless notion of the subject, or ego, in Western philosophy and psychoanalytic theory subtly reflects the interests and perspectives of men, while women are associated with the nonsubject (the Other) or with matter and nature.
  • Tarabai Shinde: Comparison between Women and Men
  • The Weaker Sex: The Economist

    • Papers

  • Joan Scott: Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis
    "Those who would codify the meanings of words fight a losing battle, for words, like the ideas and things they are meant to signify, have a history."
    In this influential paper, celebrated feminist historian Joan Wallach Scott provides her own definition of gender in two parts: gender is based on the perceived differences between the sexes, but is also a way of signifying power differentials.
  • How Ralph Nader Changed America
    Ralph Nader is an American political activist and author. His book, Unsafe at Any Speed, was influential in reforming American automobile safety laws. This article takes a look at how his work launched the consumer-rights, corporate-accountability, and other citizen movements.

    • Short Stories

  • Saadat Hasan Manto: "Khol do"
  • George Orwell. 1926. Shooting an Elephant

    • Art

  • Jonah Lehrer: Proust Was a Neuroscientist
    Jonah Lehrer argues that many 20th and 21st-century discoveries of neuroscience are actually re-discoveries of insights made earlier by various artists, including Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, Paul Cézanne, Igor Stravinsky, and, as alluded to in the title, Marcel Proust.
  • Cynthia Freeland: But Is It Art- An Introduction to Art Theory
    Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and interpretation of the arts. Freeland also propels us into the future by surveying cutting-edge web sites, along with the latest research on the brain's role in perceiving art.

    • Miscellaneous

  • Danger of a single story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    (Ted Talk)
  • Podcast

    Journling

    Pick a skill you want to improve. Practice it and keep a calendar. Write down how you've been improving, and use the space to organize the feedback that you've been receiving. Some examples of questions to ask yourself:

    1. What did I do?
    2. What challenges am I facing in acquiring [insert personal growth skill here]?
    3. What can I do to accelerate my growth?
    4. How do I feel about my execution of [insert personal growth skill here]?

    Unlike a personal diary entry, these entries are supposed to be more objective than writing about your feelings.

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    1. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
      The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path To Higher Creativity is a 1992 self-help book by American author Julia Cameron. The book was written to help people with artistic creative recovery, which teaches techniques and exercises to assist people in gaining self-confidence in harnessing their creative talents and skills.
    2. Rising Strong by Brené Brown
      The author of Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfection tells us what it takes to get back up, and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle, Brené Brown writes, can be our greatest call to courage, and rising strong our clearest path to deeper meaning, wisdom, and hope.
    3. Atomic Habits by James Clear
      If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.
    4. Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All by Tom and David Kelly
      Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the 'creative types.' But two of the foremost experts in innovation, design and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is creative.
    5. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
      "The Art of War" meets "The Artist's Way" in this no-nonsense, profoundly inspiring guide to overcoming creative blocks of every kind.
    6. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
      In Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely challenges the readers' assumptions about making decisions based on rational thought. Ariely explains, "My goal, by the end of this book, is to help you fundamentally rethink what makes you and the people around you tick.
    7. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
      Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble.
    8. Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker
      We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: with ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession regardless of where you started out. In Managing Oneself, Peter Drucker explains how to do it.
    9. How Star Women Build Portable Skills by Boris Groysberg, Harvard Business Review
      After studying the fortunes of more than 1,000 star stock analysts, Groysbergs and colleagues found that when a star switched companies, not only did his performance plunge, so did the effectiveness of the group he joined and the market value of his new company. But one group of analysts reliably maintained star rankings even after changing employers: women.

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    1. The Minimalists Podcast
      Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus discuss living a meaningful life with less. With more than 80 million downloads and 8,000 listener reviews, The Minimalists Podcast is a top-100 show in eight countries, including the United States, Canada, and Australia.
    2. Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik
      Kwik Brain is a fun, fast-paced show designed to help busy people learn and achieve anything in a fraction of the time! In this easy to digest bite-sized podcast, you will discover Kwik's favorite shortcuts to read faster, remember more, and 'supercharge' your greatest wealth-building asset: your brain.
    3. Unlocking Us with Brené Brown
      Conversations that unlock the deeply human part of who we are, so that we can live, love, parent, and lead with more courage and heart.

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    1. The School of Life
      The School of Life is a global organisation devoted to teaching individuals how to lead a more fulfilled life. They offer insights in the key ingredients of emotional well-being: how to form good relationships, identify a satisfying career, minimise anxiety, acquire confidence and connect properly with friends.
    2. How to Stop Screwing Yourself Over by Mel Robbins, TEDx San Francisco
      In this humorous and provocative talk, Mel Robbins explains how turning off our brain's autopilot and demolishing our comfort zones is key to a rewarding life.
    3. How Great Leaders Inspire Action by Simon Sinek
      Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership -- starting with a golden circle and the question: "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Wright brothers.

    General

    1. Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy
    2. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
    3. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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