What we learned together this week?

Snapshot of the week gone by

Happy Monday!

Before we dive into all the details, here is a brief summary of today’s newsletter -

✨ Our fellowship sessions exploring nuances and mental models for navigating ‘what next’ with -

📅 The upcoming sessions with author and parliamentarian Dr. Shashi Tharoor and investor Ashish Kumar.

Now on to the weekly recap of what we learnt together

Newsletters

Xu is the son of Chinese immigrants who moved to the U.S. from Nanjing in 1989, with a few hundred dollars when he was 5 years old. His mother was a doctor but her license was not recognized in the States. Read about how he went from Washing Dishes to Becoming a Billionaire here.

People rarely follow those who have a bleak view of the future but should we as leaders/future leaders hide behind the veneer of manufactured optimism? Should we have to pretend all is well just so that enough number of people follow us? Read more.

“When you change the way you see the world, you change the world you see.” To me, it captures the spirit of his book “Hit Refresh” and a lot of what he brought to Microsoft when he took over as the CEO of the company in 2014. Read more.

Fellowship Sessions

The modern equivalent of ‘to be or not to be?’ is to think about ‘what next?’. How do we keep learning? What projects should we work on? With who?

In our fellowship sessions today, we explored facets of this eternal existential questions with our phenomenal fellowship faculty members -

Upcoming Sessions

In the coming days, we have two power-packed sessions planned -

  1. NC Fellowship - Session with Ashish KumarAshish currently leads impact investing and venture philanthropy activities across Africa and Asia – with a focus on funding early-stage impact start-ups in the areas of Climate Finance/Energy Access, Circular Economy, Agriculture, Mobility, Gender inclusion et al.

  2. Book Discussion: ‘Battle of Belonging’ with Dr. Shashi TharoorThere are over a billion Indians alive today. But are some Indians more Indian than others? To answer this question, one that is central to the identity of every man, woman, and child who belongs to the modern Republic of India, eminent thinker and bestselling writer Shashi Tharoor explores hotly contested ideas of nationalism, patriotism, citizenship, and belonging.

Afterthought — “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” ― Hannah Arendt

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