Inside Story

What Would You Do With $600 Million? (If Not a Wedding?)

The wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant has caught public attention for its staggering price tag of over 600 million USD. The entire ceremony took place over the course of five-months, with 11 pre-wedding ceremonies and a guest list including celebrities like Kim and Khloe Kardashian, John Cena, Nick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra; and politicians like Boris Johnson and Tony Blair. So first, we speak to a wedding planner on extravagant weddings, and the thrills and terrors that come with it. Then, we hear from our listeners how they would spend 600 million USD, if they had it. Image Credit: Reuters See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

When Should We Cut The Apron Strings?

An article [https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/07/modern-parenting-grown-children/678942/] by The Atlantic has highlighted how parent-child relationships have transformed from old school independence-driven parenting to a more modern, bond-focused dynamic. So we asked our listeners how close they are to their parents, how this shaped their adulthood, and when the right time is to be more independent. Image Credit: imtmphoto,Shutterstock See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Are We Happy With Our Working Week?

Greece introduced a new employment law that establishes a six-day working week to boost economic growth, at a time when many other countries are increasingly seeing positive results from experiments with four-day working week. We ask our listeners to share their thoughts on Malaysia's current five-day working week and to imagine their ideal structure of the workweek. Image Credit: PeopleImages.com- Yuri A See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Breaking Bad (Habits)

We all have a tough time breaking bad habits, whether that's smoking, doomscrolling or shopping. Some people opt to go all in, and quit cold turkey, but others prefer baby steps. So we talk about these two approaches, and ask our listeners, which side of the fence they are on when it comes to this. Image Credit: sosiukin, 123RF [https://www.123rf.com/photo_204553185_cigarette-and-wooden-blocks-broken-cigarette-on-table-background-with-hourglass-no-tobacco-day-with.html] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Should Learning Be Easy?

Should we be taking the fun way, or the hard way in our path to learning something new? Co-founder of OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy thinks the latter. He argues that the "shortification of learning" made popular by short form videos on social media, packaged as a way to learn while being entertained, is a "trap." Instead, he advocates that if one were serious about learning, they should seek out heavier academic content; think textbooks, manuals, documents and research papers. We dissect his argument, and whether there's merit to it, and also ask our listeners whether learning should be easy. Image credit: nimito,123RF See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.