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Jun 23 2020

Preparation is Key🔑

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Prepare for the worst and hope for the best, that's what they say right? This reminds me of a story of my dad.
Whenever I would come back from the airport, my dad would ask me to buy a couple of bottles of single malt. So, I would buy them and get them home, expecting my dad to share a drink with me sometime. But well, no. He would keep it nicely in his bar and those bottles just stayed there. It made me wonder why he did that?
And then, 2020 happened. All wine shops were closed, everyone was confused, alcohol prices were surging like the stock of Zoom!
But my dad was prepared. He had a bar full of single malts! I guess he was always preparing for an apocalypse. When the world is coming to an end (it's not, excuse me for being dramatic) he would happily sip a fine glass of whiskey.
ज्ञान
We will need a comprehensive strategy to reduce the sort of interactions that can lead to more infections. COVID-19 has mounted a sustained attack on public life, especially indoor life. Many of the largest super-spreader events took place inside—at a church in South Korea, an auditorium in France, a conference in Massachusetts. The danger of the indoors is more than anecdotal. A Hong Kong paper awaiting peer review found that of 7,324 documented cases in China, only one outbreak occurred outside—during a conversation among several men in a small village. The risk of infection indoors is almost 19 times higher than in open-air environments, according to another study from researchers in Japan.
Our daily morning Zoom call that happens at 9:25 AM IST every weekday, attended by all of us, from Delhi to Manila. The rules are simple. No work conversations. No agenda. One person hosts the meeting, on a rotational basis. We’ve been doing this for nearly three months now. Some hosts have created fun quizzes and games. Some have shared cooking recipes. Last week, we all recounted our favourite memory from childhood. 
In many ways, over the last three months, we have grown to know each other better than we did when we met each other at the office every day. 
Anyway, all I wanted to say is that rituals are nice. Rituals are fun. What’s your ritual these days? Tell us. 
Meanwhile, let’s dive in.
Week one:​ 3-9 may. Along with toilet paper, which remains scarce, condolence cards are sold out, though birthday cards are plentiful. Popular images include a trail of footprints in the sand and an angel with its forehead pressed into the crook of its arm.
As confirmed American coronavirus deaths pass 67,000, the president declares, in an interview with Fox News held inside the Lincoln Memorial, where events are traditionally banned: ‘They always said nobody got treated worse than Lincoln. I believe I am treated worse.’ A Twitter wit writes that, for the massive marble sculpture looming above, ‘It was the second worst thing Lincoln ever watched.’
DoorDash is the leading food delivery platform in the United States, with around 45% market share of meal delivery sales founded in 2012 by then Stanford students Tony Xu, Stanley Tang, Andy Fang, and Evan Moore.
Tony Xu grew up in a family of Small Business Owners, and to him and his cofounders, they identified this was the domain they wanted to solve. So they went out and created a bunch of different "experiments" pitching different ideas to small business owners, and in one of those meetings, the owner Chloe burst out, "Well, there is one thing I wanted to show you." She took out a thick booklet. It was pages and pages of delivery orders. "This drives me crazy. I have no drivers to fulfill them, and I'm the one doing all of it." The rest is history.
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