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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- How do we bring about change? How should we think about changing the state, changing society, changing ourselves?
Welcome to Episode 36 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.
In this episode, Ajay and Amit discuss discuss theories of change in different contexts, with one common theme: we need to play the long game.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 Packaging
00:13 Introduction: Wait! Need Coffee First!
02:02 Chapter 1: The Two Kinds of Change
14:34 Chapter 2: Do We Take Progress for Granted?
30:47 Chapter 3: Changing the State
55:35 Chapter 4: Changing Society
59:54 Chapter 5: The Personal View
1:14:10 Chapter 6: Ajay's Recco
1:15:24 Chapter 7: Amit's Recco
USEFUL RESOURCES:
1. Amit on Twitter: / amitvarma
2. Ajay on Twitter: / ajay_shah
3. The Seen and the Unseen -- Amit's audio podcast: seenunseen.in/
(Also on all podcast apps. And TH-cam, though less than 1% of listens come from here: www.youtube.com/@TheSeenAndTh...)
4. Ajay's organisation, XKDR Forum, on TH-cam: / @xkdr
5. In Service of the Republic -- Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah: amzn.eu/d/hwGILb3
6. The Art of Clear Writing -- Amit's writing course: indiauncut.com/clear-writing/
7. The Reformers -- Episode 28 of Everything is Everything: • The Reformers | Episod...
8. The Solution -- Bertolt Brecht: allpoetry.com/The-Solution
9. The Ideas of Our Constitution - Episode 164 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Madhav Khosla): • Ep 164: The Ideas of O...
10. Mera Joota Hai Japani: • Video
11. The End of History? - Francis Fukuyama: www.jstor.org/stable/24027184
12. Against the Grain -- James C Scott: amzn.eu/d/4hRyRgg
13. A Deep Dive Into Ukraine vs Russia - Episode 335 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah): • Ep 335: A Deep Dive I...
14. India’s Massive Pensions Crisis - Episode 347 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah & Renuka Sane): • Ep 347: India's Massiv...
15. The Life and Times of KP Krishnan - Episode 355 of The Seen and the Unseen: • Ep 355: The Life and T...
16. Understanding the State -- Episode 25 of Everything is Everything: • Understanding the Stat...
17. When Should the State Act? -- Episode 26 of Everything is Everything: • When Should the State ...
18. We Love Vaccines! We Love Freedom! -- Episode 27 of Everything is Everything: • We Love Vaccines! We L...
19. Public Choice Theory Explains SO MUCH -- Episode 33 of Everything is Everything: • Public Choice Theory E...
20. Fixing the Knowledge Society -- Episode 24 of Everything is Everything: • Fixing the Knowledge S...
21. The Overton Window: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton...
22. XKDR Forum paper and software in methodology for nighttime lights data: xkdr.org/paper/but-clouds-got...
23. Kashi Ka Assi -- Kashinath Singh: amzn.eu/d/djvcyxq
24. Ajay Shah on state capacity, governance and institutions -- Episode 18 of Jack of All Knowledge: open.spotify.com/episode/47Ip...
25. Weapons of the Weak -- James C Scott: amzn.eu/d/00wDouS
26. Seeing Like a State -- James C Scott: amzn.eu/d/9azMHSH
27. Runaway -- Alice Munro: amzn.eu/d/8Itly0g
28. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage -- Alice Munro: amzn.eu/d/7Q2BYCZ
29. The Bear Came Over the Mountain -- Alice Munro: www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
Produced by Amit Varma
Shot by Vaishnav Vyas and Nomsita MS Haritashya: / vaishnav.vyas
Edited by Nomsita MS Haritashya: / nomsitaharitashya
Thanks to Gaurav Chintamani for helping with sound: / gaurav_chintamani
Chapter images & additional illustrations by Simahina: / i_am_simahina
Again... What a MASTERCLASS from Ajay!
Don't worry Ajay, I can assure you that the changes in us are not mere 10% when there's people like you and Amit to convince us!
On a wholly different note, isn't Ajay looking badass in that haircut!
In today's deeply polarized world, we should heed Mr. Ajay Shah's words about not smashing our heads to pulp, but gently seeking to persuade in an atmosphere of trust. How beautifully he has articulated the steps to dealing with important issues.🙏
Great talk, just like always. The last 15 mins by Mr. Shah, though, were just PURE GOLD. That is essence of wisdom distilled in the furnace of life. No book can give that, but only a life well lived. I'm lucky to be able to virtually sit across and hear this firsthand. Thank you!
Every episode contains the seeds of another episode. The asides are so interesting. In this one, the whole thing about extracting data through satellite imagery is just so fascinating. Also, there are always so many quotables. Without data, "... the guy with the biggest megaphone will win. And generally, the modern world is structured so that the worst guy has the megaphone so you will surely have wrong impressions. so what is common knowledge is generally wrong. Anything that is loudly stated by all famous people is wrong. Fame is a curse. It interferes with information"
The 'pipeline' framework is so helpful.
This is such an inspiring episode! The acceptance of reality and the doing of one's duty regardless of that reality. It's easier said than done, of course, but it's clearly the only path to take.
This is one of the most powerful videos that I’ve seen in a long time..I work in the ‘field of action’ and it often gets very frustrating to stick around. Thanks for this!
Amit you are a people collector and connector. And you have this characteristic that you make us readers feel that we are a part of this connected group. Of course dimwits like me are not even worth being a fly on the wall. Still, just to be able to see this exchange is such a positive part of my existence now. Endless gratitude to you Amit and mad respect to Ajay sir. That dapper shirt of Ajay sir is just ❤
What a cogent talk Ajay! While listening, I kept correlating with the way India is designing & implementing changes these days. I ended up with still lesser hair on my head thought I think I became wiser.
That shirt is dapper Ajay
Excited to hear both of you discuss the power of sat imagery, look forward to an episode on this :) And on a different note, an episode on the marine sector of India please !
"A republic ma'am if you can keep it" - Benjamin Franklin.
Its a masterclass on the subject each episode, I lack words to praise you both... 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Loving the bearded Ajay Shah. Very professorial
Am here. Yep. I cannot stop myself from commenting midway. My road to change is not just slow, it is treacherous.
Why do I love this podcast?..Cuz I'm a bangali and a statistician..
hope ajay sir is in good health. (on crutches i can see ‘make in India’…)
This was an inspiring episode!! Thanks!!
Those last 15 minutes ....zindagi ka saar. Thank you Ajay and Amit for yet another fantastic episode. What's written on Amit's tee? I missed it when Amit mentioned...
Aaah, you’re forcing me to recall a conversation I had with my mother recently. I am lucky to be that guy who found a ticket out, but family decides to stay. That sense of guilt and being trapped at the same time is an everyday lament. Ajay you inspire, but it ain’t enough. The every day evidence is exhausting.
YOU GUYS NAILED THE INTRO
Amit - pl consider an episode about the car industry in india. With some focus on the 4 metre rule, older diesel cars, etc
Thanks
This episode is Ajay Shah on the formula racing track on hot wheels! ❤🎉
Good Talk as always but not agreeing with all views
Amit do a episode on Climate Change
+1, do cover the misinformation that harmed the cause. There are several payed studies which claimed the climate change to be cyclical and unalarming.
Strongly second this..
Strongly thirding this
Fourth... Strongly
Fifth this
Please do an episode on GDP and the state of India's GDP data sources (how reliable and authentic they are).
I am very scared of the day this podcast will end. That will be a very sad day.
Makes sense
Ajay sir please do pos on behavioural econ nudging
My god, what an episode. The hairs on my head, not just on my arm, were standing up at the end. So quotable also. "Data data everywhere, but not a thought to think." "You may not be interested in the world, but the world is interested in you." "It doesn't matter how slow you go as long as you don't stop." UFFFFFF.
Guys take a shot on recent HCES report.
Can you please make a video about what is derivatives market and hedge funds and how ed thorp and few others broke the market, I want Ajay Shah's opinion on these topics
Hey amit, Do a video with Jp Narayan
Please do a series on travelogue of explorer who came to india pre 18th century
53:10 - again a timer clock sound. Karna parega kuch. Investigate karna parega
It is a Casio watch
Thank you sir.
The half unstuck Make in India sticker on Ajay's crutches is sending a subliminal message. Wonder what it is.🤔
Feel better.
When a firm says Make in India, it probably means the crutches are made in China.
@@ajayshah5705I once bought a USB fan from Amazon, 2021, that had a made in India logo on the product page. After the product was delivered, I checked carefully and realised the packaging was made in India. The actual item (small print) was made in China.
Do one podcast in hindi to help get more reach
The pachka jokes never stop
make video about ai and how will it shape our society
There is one.
at 03:00 , the fact that winning world cup/medal getting owned by entire nation and the enthusiasm and euphoria around it creates incentive for the right people to enter the field and pushes next generation and existing ones to train and work harder to excel. It is the same reason why a probable ice hockey legend might be working in a kirana store.
State constitutes its very own people themselves and its various arms do support the individual effort funded by the people and their taxes.
similarly, we also unfortunately own that Delhi is unsafe for women due to the misdeeds of a few blokes where the larger population may not have anything to do with the crimes.
Is the incentive and excitement any inferior in teams (Man U) where the word country is kept out.
Safety is very much the achievement or failure of the state. So there the attribution is correct.
@@ajayshah5705 well that's an interesting argument but then this too is a fact that Russians flooded the Chess tournaments thanks to the Russian state it was at the time. The involvement or the credit over individual/team achievemet that the state commands really depends on the point of time and condition the state is in. India probably is still in the time where it seems like state and people are very connected. I'm not sure if an omnibus view helps in this case.
@@hrishia.jadhav3073 Yes, in the case of the Soviet Union (or the PRC) excellence in sports was obtained through the state. But the US government had nothing to do with the rise of Fischer or Caruana, and the Indian state had nothing to do with the rise of Anand or Pragg.
India is not at a time where the Indian state matters too much for the achievements of the people. Look around you. Who do you admire? Did they build this themselves or were they pawns in a government program?
@@ajayshah5705 ooooo....state should then aim less of Welfarism and less of obstructionist as well...funny thought: That means state is really not required in a lot of places and then will state even be relevant 20 years down the line. How limited the state should be? Seems chaotic and unpleasant to imagine as well intuitively!
Ajay subtlety promoting make in India 😂
Looks there has been a half hearted attempt to remove the sticker. 😆
The fact that the vendor is saying Make in India and not Made in India makes me suspect the crutches are imported.