What I Learned About Writing in the Last 6 Months
A little bit of context about my writing career before the last six months. It was nothing remarkable and I exclusively wrote in private. I thought long and hard before…
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Climate Change, Ping-Pong, Morality And More
A friend and I were talking recently about how gathering information about the pervasive nature of climate change is out of reach for most of us. It is not news…
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Missteps, Failed Endeavours, and High Stakes
What do you do when you have prepared for something significant – put in the long hours over days, possibly months, and it goes away in a flash? Worse, what…
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Solar Storms and (possibly) a Global Internet Meltdown
There appears to be another looming threat and this time it could successfully knock out our infrastructure and result in prolonged global outages. The impact of these outages however would…
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The Future of Computing – Not Smaller Chips
Image Source: HPCWire A few weeks ago, I wrote about semiconductors and how an unassuming man in his 50s turned the industry on its head. Something that resulted in a…
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The Abundance In Our Lives
We have come a long way through strife and turmoil to get to a point where we are fantastically unfamiliar with what to do with our time and attention, and…
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That Climate Change Report That You Might Have Possibly Read?
We are worse off than we had anticipated, and we must prepare for a much hotter future. However, the focus should only be on what we can and should do…
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ThisIsWater – Reflection #2
This is the second of my intermittent reflections since I started writing this blog back in March this year. This blog is a platform I leverage to learn about the…
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Europe, a Carbon Tax, and Climate Change
What do you do when you face an existential threat that causes catastrophic weather events almost whimsically, but you have been perpetuating the underlying causes for a little under a…
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Europe, Carbon Markets, and Climate Change
The pièce de resistance, if I may, and the first part of this two-part post is the proposal to revamp the legacy Emission Trading System.
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China, Carbon Markets, and Climate Change
When I was a postgraduate student studying public policy in Singapore back in 2015, I took a class on the Economics and Governance of Climate Change. I remember writing a…
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The Internet Did Not Melt Down
Picture this. It is a sunny Sunday afternoon (H/T to The Kinks) You are on the couch and fighting off a nap because you are too tired to get up…
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Always (Shamelessly) Plug
Something really cool happened last week. A newsletter from a business journalism website that I subscribe to spoke about India’s approach to keeping interest rates low, to stimulate the economy,…
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When The Chips Are Down, Start a Technology Race
It does sound a wee bit unfair to say that developed economies should have exercised better foresight in preempting a ‘capability concentration’ during this semiconductor shortage, especially given we are…
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ThisIsWater – Reflection #1
I had originally intended to write a reflection post sometime in April, after I had published around six posts on my blog. Better sense prevailed alongside the realisation that half…
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The Elders of the Internet
I am not sure how many of you are fans of ‘The IT Crowd’, the British sitcom starring Richard Ayoade (Moss), Katherine Parkinson (Jen), Chris O’Dowd (Roy), who are employees…
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One Man’s Savings Is Another Man’s Debt
How a ‘Global Saving Glut’ is inadvertently causing an overall economic stasis, and increasing household debt
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Code and Common Sense
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen” “I was in my car on my way to a new job in Seattle. I put…
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Is evolution just nature on auto-pilot?
Natural selection is nature on auto-pilot. Life evolves, heads in a direction towards survival, and does not require any deliberate adaptation within the rules of ‘selection’. It has the semblance…
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Why we are who we are
Are we generous because we are inherently generous? Or is it restricted to specific circumstances where we are generous than normal? To root it to our individual realities, it could…
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Misplaced Exceptionalism, Political Hubris, and Personal Failure
Image Source: Twitter Fabrics of nations have been altered by political hubris. All through human history. I say nations only because kingdoms, where hubris was rife, accepted, and almost indispensable,…
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When Intuition is Our First Resort
Intuition is an innate human ability to understand something instinctively without expending time developing a mental process to do so. Thanks to the pioneering work of Messrs Thaler, Sunstein, Tversky,…
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