Faith And Butterfly Wings

For a person who has no faith, the butterfly effect can potentially explain a lot of things in life in a rational manner. Distant, insignificant, events can produce competitively outsize outcomes in a different context….

Less About This Domain

This domain was registered in January 2009. That makes it almost 13-years-old. I did not even realize that and had to do a WHOIS to figure out the registration that. Has it actually been that…

A Year Outside

Twitter used to be my only active social media presence online. It was an old account, going back all the way to 2007 and it had a huge amount of content I had posted over…

Shock

Two-years-ago, around this time, India went into a lockdown, the first of the many to come in the numerous waves of the COVID-19 pandemic that was to follow. Conservative estimates peg the deaths in India…

What is ‘enough’?

If you ask most people, they’d have a reasonable idea about how much money is enough for them to stop worrying about making more. The interesting thing is that most people won’t stop at the…

India @ 2032

The big themes that will drive the world into the next 10-years are: Changes in the globally connected economy. Climate change. Technology: automation, AI, data. Changes in the demographic dividend. We are the fag end…

Ethical Digital Businesses

In this age of aggressively scooping up all and any data, are they even possible in the first place? In the venture-backed model it is certainly not going to be possible for two reasons: 1)…

The Expanse Series

It has been a long time since I have enjoyed a work as thoroughly as I have enjoyed The Expanse. I started watching the television series (all seasons 1-6) and then moved on to the…

Countries As Contracts

Nations are formed around contracts. It is rare for any nation to survive a change from the fundamental contract that it was founded on. And the common thread that runs for all the countries in…

The Lies

If the COVID-19 pandemic is our point of reference for a global crisis that needed a global response, our odds of surviving a future extinction-level event is pretty terrible. 2-years on the lack of transparency,…