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Newsletter · By Sarthak Ahuja · English · Official site

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Sep 27, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

    The Vulgarity of the Indian 5 Star Buffet (opens the original)

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    “We think about destiny sort of how we feel about inheritance - we covet its fruit, but it’s sweeter when we earn it ourselves.” - Po BronsonThe Vulgarity of an Indian 5 Star Buffet: The vulgarity of superrich weddings should ideally suggest to the Indian middle-class how vulgar they themselves appear to the poor. The classy think their wealth is hidden from plain sight, but there are things that are not invisible to the poor. In fact, class reminds them of both wealth and alien culture, the rea

  2. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    The Billionaire Who Hated the Forbes List (opens the original)

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    “Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.” - Haruki MurakamiDifferent Kinds of Smart: The smartest investors of all time went bankrupt 20 years ago. They did it during the greatest bull market of all time. The story of Long Term Capital Management is more fascinating than sad. That investors with more academic smarts than perhaps any group before or since managed to lose everything says a lot about the limits of intelligence. It also highlights

  3. Issue · Sep 13, 2026

    Kulfi, and Data Centres in Space (opens the original)

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    “I train like I’ve never won, and I compete like I’ve never lost.” - Eileen Gu, winner of three Olympic goldKulfi: I was lucky to grow up in a house teeming with noise and love and affection. That’s usually the case with joint families in India. The downside is that if you’re a young couple, a joint family isn’t always amenable to personal time and space. That’s how it was for my parents. Their solution to this was to go for a walk after dinner every night. That became their ritual. They would p

  4. Issue · Sep 6, 2026

    CBSE, Persona, and the Griftoverse (opens the original)

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    Best practices guarantee average performance. They are literally the prescriptions of others that limit variation and get you to a baseline of performance. Following them virtually ensures that you will be working harder and harder just to “keep up.” To be the best, you have to do things that no one can prescribe. - Shane ParrishYour Kid Still Goes to CBSE?: There are two sets of parents at such a place. One who acquired wealth via education. They cleared every other entrance exam that came thei

  5. Issue · Aug 30, 2026

    A Billion Dollars, and an Amazon Tax (opens the original)

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    “Stories of failure resonate more than stories of success. Few people reach the top, but everyone has failed—including those who eventually succeed. If you’re teaching people how to succeed in a given field (or talking about your own success), start with how you failed.” - James ClearA Billion Dollars: Imagine I am a wizard with a magic wand. I wave it over you and now you have a billion dollars. What would you do with your life? The price of things is no longer material. What do you use the mon

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