Why Are Shelves Still Empty? Supply Chain Woes, plus Other Economic Takeaways from the Pandemic
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Why are items still missing from grocery store shelves? Why are package deliveries being delayed? Youngme, Felix and Mihir unpack the global supply chain mess, while warning listeners to start their holiday shopping early! They also share their personal economic takeaways from the pandemic.
Recent picks, and recommended reading/websites:
· The White Lotus (HBO)
· Flour Water Salt Yeast (by Ken Forkish)
We invite you to email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: afterhours@hbs.edu. You can also follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey listener, a quick favor. |
| 0:09.0 | We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes to respond. |
| 0:14.0 | Please visit survey.prx.org slash after hours to take the survey today. |
| 0:21.0 | That's survey.prx.org slash after hours. |
| 0:25.0 | Thanks. |
| 0:31.0 | Hi everyone. You're listening to After Hours. I'm young me. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Felix and I'm me here. |
| 0:41.0 | How are you guys doing tonight? |
| 0:42.0 | Great. Doing well. Thank you. |
| 0:44.0 | By the way, I've been meaning to ask you me here. |
| 0:46.0 | Now that we're back in session and everything, are you still going on those incredibly long walks? |
| 0:51.0 | Remember how you were doing the 5, 7, 18? |
| 0:54.0 | No, no, 5, 8, 12. |
| 0:56.0 | 5 miles, 8 hours. |
| 0:59.0 | 12 hours fasting. |
| 1:00.0 | And are you still doing that? |
| 1:01.0 | I'm doing it. And by the way, I recently discovered that my iPhone is jipping me by like 33% on my miles. |
| 1:07.0 | How so? |
| 1:08.0 | It's just like if you do Google Maps versus the iPhone, like I'm getting jipped. |
| 1:12.0 | So I actually think I'm doing significantly more than 5, which makes me feel even better. |
| 1:16.0 | What about you Felix? Are you staying active? |
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