Frameworks & Flywheels

In this episode, we talk about continuous partial attention and how does it impact your professional and personal life. The discussion moves towards distraction and deep-work in general and how people can try to mitigate this at work and at home.

Do listen in and let us know your feedback on @FFlywheels on Twitter. Happy Listening!

In this episode we first talk about how to decide what kind of company you should build, based on market size and opportunities as well as your own personal goals and personality type - should you raise VC money or build a cashflow-generating business instead.

Lastly, we also leave you with our weekly recommendations for interesting content that we've been consuming recently.

In the first segment, we talk about India-specific business models, particularly for global companies tailoring their offerings for India and for Indian companies with global ambitions.

In the second segment, we discuss Leadership and some of the traits that define great leaders.

Lastly, we round things up with some of the content we've been consuming of late.

In this episode we talk about enterprise software and the differences from consumer software, and the challenges and changes happening in the area. 

We also talk about dropping your ego and getting what you want without wanting what you want.

We discuss streaming platforms and the dynamics involved in making decisions on the supply side (acquiring content) and on the demand side (acquiring side) from the perspective of a dominant incumbent like Netflix as well as an upstart like India's MX Player and AltBalaji./

Interesting articles & show notes:

1. Ben Thompson's articles on Aggregators: https://stratechery.com/2017/defining-aggregators/  & https://stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory/

 2. Ben Thompson's blog Stratechery is highly recommended. Tip: Weekly subscriptions are free (& great!)

3. #Book: The Everything Store by Brad Stone

4. #Movie: Invictus (2009): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1057500/

5. Arun Maira's article: http://www.foundingfuel.com/article/an-ethical-toolkit-for-systems-transformers/

 You can tweet to us on Twitter at @FFlywheels (we share interesting links and articles too on the channel!) and individually @a_2510 and @ckingalpha. We'd love to know what you thought of the episode and how we can improve. Happy listening!

On the first episode of the Frameworks and Flywheels podcast, we talk about metrics and the motivations and incentives behind setting flawed incentives. We also talk about what we're thinking about this week from a personal growth perspective and also some interesting things that we read this week. 

Media (books/articles/movies/videos) referenced in the podcast:

1. Taleb on Risk-taking and Ergodicity: https://medium.com/incerto/the-logic-of-risk-taking-107bf41029d3

2. #Book: Paddy Upton's Barefoot Coach

3. Paddy Upton's article on mental toughness: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/26630222/barefoot-coach-paddy-upton

You can tweet to us on Twitter at @FFlywheels (we share interesting links and articles too on the channel!) and individually @a_2510 and @ckingalpha. We'd love to know what you thought of the episode and how we can improve. Happy listening!