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Understanding films through Two Old Cliches: Product-Market Fit and “Last Mile” Distribution. Also, Rupert Murdoch, MGR and NTR, Federalism and Economic…
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Three Operations Lessons from the Swedish Model: (1) Doing things that don’t scale (2) Designing for Safe Failures than fail-safe designs (3…
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Middle Age, Morris Chang and Michelle Yeoh
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Marissa Mayer, Saving Cities and The Taking of Pelham 123.
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February 2023

Roald Dahl, Childhood and Learning about Society. How physical books act as archives and photoalbums of our learning trajectory.
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Three Rules of Grocery Commerce. Earliest supermarket in film, Double Indemnity, Palak Paneer, and the Hummingbird theory of inventory turns.
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Gender and Workforce After the Pandemic. In this essay, I focus on Gender & Workforce, mostly trying to make sense from labor force data using Bullwhip…
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Through a friendship distribution model, I argue how the pandemic and social media reset weak and strong ties in different ways. Finally, notes on…
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January 2023

I argue that generative AI from large language models will make our lives more meaningful. Plus, the appearance of Bladerunner, Nightwatch, Tearjerkers…
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Understanding China is key to unlocking the puzzle of how supply chains operate in practice. On the lunar new year, I start the series on Asia…
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A Brief History of the Titans of American Retail. Structural lessons from the catalog business to Internet Retail. Plus, a possible first appearance of…
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Welcome to The Sentinel - a newsletter on mind and craft on Substack, my new neighborhood on the internet. For my first post, I talk about moving to a…
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