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  • C1, C2 and life…

    Dear Young People,

    Below is a brief lesson that I share with those who ask me for career advice. I hope it will be useful to you.

    Category 1 (C1): Honesty, humility, discipline, effort and compassion

    is as important as

    Category 2 (C2): Irreverence, creativity, drive, communication and risk-taking.

    In this era, C1 may look boring and sound cynical, but C1 can give you as much of a competitive advantage as C2, especially in the long run.

    Importantly, C1 will build your character. C1 is probably the best way to build self-confidence, and hence self-respect.

    This is not to underplay C2, which is equally important. Just that C1 and C2 are not zero-sums.

    C1 and C2 are incomplete lists, and you can always expand them and keep referring to them for directions in life.

    Best Wishes,
    from a fellow student

  • Conversation with Chinmay Tumbe

    Chinmay is an author, historian and associate professor at IIM Ahmedabad: https://sites.google.com/site/chinmaytumbe/home.

    We explored his intellectual landscape of becoming a writer and a historian. We discuss his writing process and his experience of researching and teaching business history in a scientific & engaging way.

    Many related strands…

    Listen as we humanize science with history…

    References:

    1. “Chinmay Tumbe.” Accessed October 15, 2024. https://sites.google.com/site/chinmaytumbe/home.
    2. “Chinmay Tumbe | IIMA.” Accessed October 15, 2024. https://www.iima.ac.in/faculty-research/faculty-directory/Chinmay-Tumbe.
    3. “‪Chinmay Tumbe – ‪Google Scholar.” Accessed October 15, 2024. https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&btnA=1&user=MyvxhAUAAAAJ.
    4. “Chinmay Tumbe – History.” Accessed October 16, 2024. https://sites.google.com/site/chinmaytumbe/home/history.
    5. Diamond, Jared, and James A. Robinson. Natural Experiments of History. Reprint edition. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2011.
    6. Jha, Prabhat, Yashwant Deshmukh, Chinmay Tumbe, Wilson Suraweera, Aditi Bhowmick, Sankalp Sharma, Paul Novosad, et al. “COVID Mortality in India: National Survey Data and Health Facility Deaths.” Science 375, no. 6581 (February 11, 2022): 667–71. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm5154.
    7. “Literature Festivals: India’s Vibrant History Scene.” Accessed October 15, 2024. https://historylitfest.com/.
    8. Tumbe, Chinmay. Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World, 2020.
    9. ———. India Moving: A History of Migration. Vintage Books, 2018.
    10. X (formerly Twitter). “(1) Chinmay Tumbe (@ChinmayTumbe) / X,” June 9, 2024. https://x.com/chinmaytumbe.
    11. X (formerly Twitter). “HITCH (@BizEconHist) / X,” September 15, 2022. https://x.com/bizeconhist.