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Malel retweeted
Excellent analysis.
(@Wharton '82)
I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down. nytimes.com/2026/10/18/opini…
Malel retweeted
Drop what you’re doing. Go to today’s New York Times Opinion section. Sit down in a quiet corner. Start reading: “I Teach at a Business School: It’s Time to Shut Them Down,”by Chris Marquis, Univ. of Cambridge, former HBS professor.
BRILLIANT.
IRREFUTABLE.
LOOOONG OVERDUE.
Malel retweeted
This 50-minute lecture by Jeff Bezos will teach you more about business than a 2-year MBA program.
Bookmark it and give it 50 minutes today, no matter what
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People don’t need to be managed; the work does. In small, highly technical companies, the owner can effectively serve as the sole manager. Larger organizations need managers who multiply team effort, not just people who hold the title.
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“China is not the world’s largest command economy. It is a continent-sized Silicon Valley.”
Awesome piece by @RobinRivaton on China’s local governments and industrial clusters: worksinprogress.co/issue/chi…
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This is a really funny Xi video, which I've never seen before. I just added subtitles in English to it 👇
He explains the art of giving gifts to foreign leaders. The South Korea anecdote is particularly hilarious: he explains that when China had to find a gift for President Park Geun-hye, they went through her autobiography, where she wrote that if she’d ever had a first love (she was unmarried), he would be Zhao Zilong, a legendary general from the Three Kingdoms. So they had Fan Zeng, one of China’s most famous painters, paint her crush 😂
Xi can’t resist adding that Zhao Zilong happens to come from Zhengding, the county he ran in the 1980s, which makes him "very proud too."
Xi’s actual point is that good diplomacy is personal and that you need to do deep research on the people you’re dealing with: reading their biographies, knowing their taste, their history, etc. It signals respect and, as he puts it, is "a very, very effective way of reaching people’s hearts."
Malel retweeted
做生意，一定要懂得这些道理：
1、道德感太强的人，不适合做生意，只适合打工，只有打工赚的钱才是清清白白的。
2、没有野心的人，不适合做生意，最后会把自己做倒闭。
3、胆子太小的人，不适合做生意，因为他永远发不了大财。
4、喜欢板着脸的人，不适合做生意，即使去做了，财神也入不了门。
5、脸皮太薄的人不适合做生意，因为你的面子永远大于赚钱。
6、有才华的穷人不适合做生意，因为你嗅不到金钱的味道，相反，满脑子都是诗和远方，与生意人不是同路人。
7、玻璃心的人不适合做生意，因为你经不起失败的风浪，哪怕一次可能就永远站不起来。
8、太老实的人，不适合做生意，你没有独立思考的能力和步步为营的野心。
9、身体弱的人不适合做生意，生意人都是日挨夜熬，没有休息日，没有节假日，就怕你扛不住。
10、不善人际交往的人，不适合做生意，因为你不够圆滑，不会说话，反而容易得罪人！或者被人悄悄打压。
Malel retweeted
I came to learn that every region in Kenya seems to be fighting its own health battle. Central ni diabetes na blood pressure, North Eastern ni kidney na gastric issues, Meru ni cancer, huko Nyanza ni malaria na sickle cell.
Kila region na challenge yake
Malel retweeted
Sorry to say Elon, you can’t beat those Indian oligarchs even if you’re the richest person alive. Those oligarchs give out the cheapest internet on the planet that even you can’t afford to match. India was basically getting free internet in late 2016, and from 2016 to 2026 the average cost of data crashed down to like 10 cents per gigabyte (₹7 to ₹10) or even less. Nowadays with 5G, these oligarchs are giving out near 1 Gbps speeds for pennies, and home broadband is even cheaper for like $5 to $18 (₹400 to ₹1,500) a month, you get unlimited fiber up to 3.3 TB, speeds up to 1 Gbps, and every major OTT subscription bundled in.
Compare that to your pricing. You’re talking about charging ₹30,000+($300+) upfront just for a dish kit and around ₹8,000+ ($100) every single month. Even if you burn cash and make it free for the first year, the second you hike prices back to Western rates, Indians will completely fuck you over just like how Tesla got fucked in India against local players.
Massive respect to you, of course, because that’s the exact kind of bank balance anyone dreams of having :). Massive respect for that bank balance, and for revolutionizing payments first with email-based money transfer, then electric cars, and then private reusable rockets you’ve inspired a lot of us for literally everything, and everyday, but yeah, India is an entirely different game. Those book theories and MBA frameworks don't work in India in front of Marwari, Jain, or Gujarati maths :). Running the exact same playbook everywhere just doesn't work. If you want to come to India, you have to learn jugaad, cutthroat bargaining, trust, and how to deliver crazy volume at dirt-cheap prices.
Indians are already pulling 1 Gbps speeds for pocket change, so try building an infrastructure that cheap before thinking you can take on these oligarchs. In fact, you should pray those Indian oligarchs don't enter the US or Europe market, because if they bring those prices over there, your bank balance will get completely fucked. Until you drop Starlink down to 5 to 10 cents a gig and make the hardware basically free, nobody here is touching it.
Malel retweeted
Interesting Goldman Sachs interview question.
Your answer reveals more about you than you think.
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Rumor, backed by email evidence: Oracle is now offering voluntary severance packages to leaders across the company.
The offer is six weeks of severance, plus an additional week for every year of service.
This is the latest coming out of Oracle. Still unconfirmed, but signs are pointing to another round of layoffs in December as Oracle continues its shift toward becoming a data center company.
The voluntary packages may only be the opening move. If the rumors are right, looks like December is when more cuts begin.
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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Why has India failed to industrialize?
Ha-Joon Chang argues that it’s because India’s business and financial elites oppose industrialization — and that it won’t happen unless their power is curbed.
