What a week! Tech news, Hand picked bytes, Book read update and an original blog post!

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Let’s address the obvious - Big tech blocks and closes the door on Trump for allegedly agitating riots at the Capitol. It finally happened or does big tech have too much say in what happens in the world?

Whats app has updated its terms and conditions to collect more user data leading to Elon Musk endorsing Signal on Twitter. His endorsement led to outages on Signal.

In other news, Elon becomes the richest man in the world beating Jeff Bezos. At this pace, we have to wait and watch who becomes the first Trillionaire!

Burger King reveals new branding in two decades by Jones Knowles Ritchie. Its a refreshing take on branding with personality! It’s filled with originality and represents the brand’s great value, culture. Branding done right! Looking at it just makes me so hungry.

Read more with some great pick of articles and an original blog post by UX India on UXI20 - Wrapped up!

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Last week I wrote about the progress on my latest read on ‘The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel.’ Finally, I was able to finish the book. Here’s my take on it - It’s a guaranteed recommendation for anyone who wants to learn lessons on handling money and all the things that comes attached with it; recklessness, greed, change in behaviour, ego, pride and what not. All of this is explained by the author using striking examples from people’s lives.

If you ever do read it, don’t miss out on the last chapter ‘Confessions’ where the author gets candid on the psychology of his own money!

‘A Promised Land’ by Barack Obama is tempting me to give it a read next, but have you seen the size of it! And also I have decided the next book I read will be related to design, these are the recommendations I got from my friends. It’s hard to make a pick, so if you have read any of it, tweet and let me know your thoughts!

See you next week :)

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