The Framwork Handbook
How rare events are common at scale, the life and times of 1.5GB Indians and more.
Hey 👋, welcome to Weekend Reads, where I share interesting ideas and content every week to help you learn and grow and consume smart content.
1. How Credit Card Make Money
Discovered a new newsletter this week by Patrick McKenzie — Bits about Money and it’s my instant favourite for all this tech, financial infrastructure, and systems.
In one of the it’s latest issues they cover how Credit Cards make money and how the whole credit industry works overall.
2. The Life and Times of 1.5 GB Indians.
There are three Indias: India Unlimited, India Unconnected, and, in between those two, the India of 1.5 GB.
With the advent of Jio, internet has become cheap and available to millions of Indians. This article covers the reality of those millons of people whose lives is defined by the 1.5 GB mobile internet data per day.
3. The Framework Handbook
Every single day, you are faced with thousands of questions, challenges, and decisions. Frameworks provide clarity by creating structure through which to evaluate situations, deploy shortcuts, and execute sound decisions.
Sahil Bloom in his latest edition of newsletter shares about 20 Frameworks & when to use them to make decisions.
4. Rare events are common at scale
If you’re also one of us who have felt — “oh! 2022 is already here. Wasn’t it 2020 a little time back?” then you’re not alone.
Here’s an interesting article that goes deep into exploring this very thing and can you help put things to a different perspective.
5. The Future of Kidtech
Over the past decade, modern touchscreen devices have become both intuitive and affordable enough that they’ve gone mainstream among children around the world.
The access to the world of internet at such an early age can define how one’s life is shaped and built around.
Is something like “Internet for Kids” that needs to be built to safe-gaurd and limit them? Read how the present and future of Kidtech is and how it could be shaped around.
Good Twitter Threads I came across this week 👇
- 2021 books that defined my 2021
- 9 steps to understanding your users and validating your assumptions with experiments.
- How POS will reduce the energy used by ETH network by 99.95%
- How to write like Apple
- 7 Jaw-dropping truths your boss will never tell you
🎁 Bonus
Discovered this really interesting website — Longreads. Covers some of the best longform stories on the web.
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