Who doesn’t love quotes? Everyone loves quotes! Quotes are the best!

Welcome to episode 12 of Watching the Wheels, hosted by Amit Varma, Shruti Rajagopalan and Pranay Kotasthane.

In this episode, Amit, Shruti & Pranay share 20 quotes they turn to again and again — on mobility, human nature, reading, excellence & humour. You will find Ambedkar & Rawls on caste and fairness, Pinker & EO Wilson on human nature, Schelling on models, Schopenhauer on reading, and Finding Dory. There’s a Swades couplet, two lines from Newton, & poems in Tamil & Urdu. In the Infinite Game, we will witness the follies of male self-confidence — and the recommendations at the end will keep you awake at night in a good way!

TABLE OF CONTENTS00:00 Hype the Episode!00:21 Intro: That’s What She Said01:54 Main Course02:29 Haves, Have-Nots and Want-To-Haves05:41 Caste as a Division of Laborers11:11 Nature, Nurture & the Middle Stage14:14 Pinker, Axelrod & the Blank Slate23:45 Models, Mentors & Being Interesting33:04 Plans, Progress & Public Life47:09 The Art of Not Reading51:48 Favourite Films & Hindi Movie Lines1:02:07 Excellence, Pratchett & Brecht1:07:58 Poems in Tamil & Urdu1:12:28 The Infinite Game1:27:14 Recommendations

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There are so many people! There are so few things! Are we going to run out? Is the earth going to hell? How on earth (pun intended) can markets help?

People are brains, not stomachs. No, we’re not running out of things. Yes, markets can solve these problems.

Welcome to episode 11 of Watching the Wheels, hosted by Amit Varma, Shruti Rajagopalan & Pranay Kotasthane.

In this episode, Amit busts the myths around too many people & too few things. Shruti steelmans the environmental position before elaborating on how markets & voluntary action can be a force for good. The Infinite Game this week will delight lovers of Indian cities, which is all of us, right? Right?

TABLE OF CONTENTS00:00 Hype the Episode!00:22 Intro00:39 Main Course 13:52 Are We Running Out of Things?34:15 Markets & the Environment1:45:03 The Infinite Game2:10:00 Recos

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Mohandas Gandhi lived a life of action, wrote furiously for decades, constantly examined himself & the world, & kept changing. He contained multitudes.

Welcome to episode 10 of Watching the Wheels, hosted by Amit Varma, Shruti Rajagopalan and Pranay Kotasthane.

In this episode, our hosts discuss what we can learnt from Gandhi — and what we should not. His genius, his contradictions, his morality, his failures, his will, his multitudes. There is also The Infinite Game at the end of this episode — can Amit redeem himself?

TABLE OF CONTENTS00:00 Hype the Episode!00:28 Intro01:09 Main Course04:47 Means Over Ends20:32 Nonviolence43:11 The Self-Taught Man52:07 Gandhi the Blogger55:10 Bias For Action56:02 Skin in the Game1:00:38 The Problem With Top-Down Change1:19:36 The System is the Problem, Not the People1:27:20 The Power of Symbols1:37:35 The Big Tent1:43:30 Patriotism and Nationalism1:55:44 The Infinite Game2:07:38 Recommendations

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