Edition 3
This week was a so-so week partly because Bangalore was under a lockdown for 2 days of the week and some of our lives were affected with the quarantine of some of us, thanks to neighbours testing positive, etc
‘All the Light we cannot see’ by Anthony Doerr was recommended by one of the group. The book is set in WW-II and is a bestseller.
Cartoons by Tom Gauld - ideally go to his Twitter feed to see his latest work
I listened to Tyler Cowen chat with Melissa Dell and then went on to this archived article about her and her roommate at Harvard, Sarah Hill. What remarkable women! And I only followed up on the podcast because I heard that Melissa Dell ran! Tyler mentioned that she’s the latest winner of the John Bates Clark (JBC) medal, which is awarded to promising economists under 40. I had to actually go and look up who JBC was, only to discover he’s closely linked to the name of Tyler’s popular blog.