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Curated Weekly Links (22-28 March)

Last night I deleted two of my previous publications. One was the first WordPress blog that I had started last summer. The other was the much loved and read substack newsletter. Old things have to give way to new ones, with the hope that new ones will be better. 

My 'knowledge project'- which now spans a podcast, this blog, my other legal blog and the sublist broadcast - started with a small Whatsapp group. I started the group in August last year out of boredom and my love to share knowledge. Initially it had some 20-30 odd participants, and it has now grown to have some 200 participants. The scale is tiny when compared to other such communities but it doesn't bother me a lot (a bit, sometimes?). 

The idea behind the group was to send interesting and intriguing articles, videos, podcasts, documentaries etc. Basically anything that would ignite your curiosity. And the range of the material is fairly wide (at least I like to believe so) which is why the name - 'Jack of all knowledge'. I'd rather be a jack of all knowledge than a master of few. 

I'll be posting the links that I share on the group here on a weekly basis. But not all the shared material will make it here for sake of convenience and curation. So if you'd want to access all of the materials, I'd suggest you to join the group. Here's the invite link to the group.

Curated Links 


3. Maximising Soul - Econ4Everyone by Ashish  (I absolutely loved this one) 

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