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This newsletter is really a weekly public policy thought-letter. While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought-letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways. It seeks to answer just one question: how do I think about a particular public policy problem/solution? Insights on burning policy issues in India — Raghu Sanjaylal Jaitley and Pranay Kotasthane

Hello, friends, and welcome to Further Faster Fridays! Happy to have you here! If this is your first issue, welcome! We ship the best content in personal development and leadership each Friday to help you go further, faster. Glad to have you as part of the community! Now, on to the content! This is a fascinating article from Gallup that explores how post-pandemic customer behaviors have shifted and what this means for your employees.

I know Syd from the town where I grew up. I remember she was one of the very first bloggers I was aware of back in 2011. Syd is a full time content creator, working big time brands. I interviewed her in 2020, when I first launched this series. At the time, she was living in a condo downtown Toronto. What I found the most endearing about interviewing her for the second time around, was how she’s pursued all the dreams and goals she set out for herself and shared back in the initial interview.

I bought an Apple watch for myself for Christmas in the year 2020. That, and a pair of waterproof running shoes. The shoes I wore into the ground and the watch I put into a drawer. I recently took that watch out of the drawer, and because it had been so long since I’d used it, I had to pair it with my current phone, and that process for some reason changed some of my phone’s settings.

dear josh, great piece! as always! this particularly resonates with me: "It’s so wonderful to experience culture that gets to become the thing it’s best suited to be, or to start by meeting a piece of work on its terms! Like, have you ever tried to unscrew a screw with pliers because you don’t have a screwdriver, and it kind of works, but it’s kind of shitty? And then you find a screwdriver and you’re like ahh…that’s right!

pov: you’re fabulous and a slay! listen while reading for best experience. K: Cam and I were having drinks (i.e., stealing Sandra’s) at Silk Club’s zine release party last weekend, where we both agreed that we were surrounded at the event that night by bona fide ✨ gworls ✨ — we just had no idea what the hell that actually meant. According to the internet, a (material) gworl is “a girl who is fabulous and a girl who is a slay,” which is totally the tea but ontologically unhelpful.

I, like a few million others, recently finished the Netflix docuseries, jeen-yuhs, which chronicled the meteoric rise of Kanye West, as told through the lenses of his long-time friends and collaborators, Clarence “Coodie” Simmons Jr. and Chike Ozah. Admittedly, I was initially hesitant about watching jeen-yuhs, because I have more … ncG1vNJzZminkqiys8LEm6Oam5tjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89onaunnam1pq3RnJ%2BirpWoeqp5yqecsGWblru6sYybrK0%3D

Hello readers and welcome to another edition of Habiter. This week’s newsletter is brought to you by the partnership of me and my humble air conditioning unit. We’ve made it to summer! Phew. I haven’t engaged in any seasonal shopping yet (I am sticking to my freeze) but I have a few styling jobs going on, so there have been plenty of borrowed runway samples flowing in and out of my apartment.

Welcome to the first weekly installment of “One First,” my newsletter about the Supreme Court. Each issue will include “On the Docket,” an update on goings-on at the Court; followed by “The One First Long Read,” a deeper dive into some procedural, substantive, or historical feature of the Court’s work; and topped off with some trivia just to keep things sufficiently … nerdy. When the Court is handing down big decisions (a pace that will pick up noticeably in the spring) or otherwise making headlines, the weekly focus will gravitate toward current developments.