Open Questions (1-5) answered using ChatGPT
Where do the boundaries lie? The boundaries can be quite subjective and can vary depending on the context you're referring to. Boundaries could be physical, such as borders between countries or proper…
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Business Idea: House of Influencer Brands (HOIB)
In today's fashion landscape, the power of influencers cannot be underestimated. These digital tastemakers hold sway over vast loyal communities of followers, shaping trends and influencing purchasing…
Embracing Cultural Dynamics: Navigating the Work Environment in India with Indians
Entering the dynamic and vibrant workforce of India can be an enriching experience filled with opportunities for growth, collaboration, and cultural exchange. As the world's largest democracy and a me…
What is "Normal"
In the vast landscape of human existence, the concept of "normal" often stands as a beacon of understanding and acceptance. Yet, upon closer inspection, defining what is truly "normal" becomes a journ…
(Old School) Art by Me!
Below you will find some abstract art I recently created. I hope you enjoy!
Commentaries on the 4 year OpenAI Comparison
I had no idea how stark the changes of the OpenAI outputs to the same prompts would be four years ago. It is clear the AI model has changed and been fine tuned. The model used to give clear and short…
Comparing ChatGPT: 4 Years in the Making
Prompt: How do you dampen / reduce fear? OpenAI March 20th, 2020 (OAI20): You can dampen / reduce fear by doing something that makes you feel safe. ChatGPT 3.5 March 20th, 2024 (GPT24): Reducing fear…
2008 Financial Crisis' Core Problem
This may be controversial as a complex problem rarely has such a simple solution. I posit that the 2008 financial crisis could have been drastically minimised if not avoided if the credit rating agenc…
Pheromones
I have no data on this and am subsequently writing this completely off a hunch so excuse me if I am wrong here. This post is a thesis on how re-plotting people from different countries and families to…
Difficult Conversations
I have recently come to realize how important it is to have the difficult conversation that we are dreading to have. If we do not do this we cannot move forward and thereby move into unknown realities…
Rivals of Industries - On Competitive Behaviour
I am fascinated by rivals of industries or titans of their niches being competitive. It seems like suitable rivals who play at the cutting edge of their respective fields push each other to new height…
Political Centers are at different places than Economic Centers
A quick note on why its important to split the economic and political centres. Usually, countries have a natural split between these two centres … for example, the DC-NYC corridor, Beijing and Shangha…
How is a city built?
Over the past year I have spent a good amount of time in Dubai, UAE. Dubai is fascinating given that they built a city out of the sand and have attracted so much capital and attention while doing so.…
Exponential Curves
Exponential curves, whether rising or falling, change our world. A short note on some to keep an eye on to not miss the next mega trends. The human family seems to be hard wired to always see the worl…
Evolving “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast”
Peter Drucker, the management consultant and writer, famously said “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” which implies that one can have the best strategy in the market but if the team’s culture is no…
Helium (& Oracles)
Helium , the people powered network, started a (decentralised) wireless revolution in a category now called Decentralised Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) ten years ago. The first hotspots laun…
Chainlink
Chainlink is one of the most fundamental infrastructure projects necessary for blockchains to be adopted in the coming decade. As Sergey Nazarov, the co-founder of Chainlink Labs, says, blockchains ha…
Communities & a theory on Democracy vs Authoritarianism
After being a (digital) nomad for the past two years I have been dropped into over 100 distinct communities. After touching so many people and cultures it seems like a community is defined as a group…
Narratives: Religion vs. Vibrations
Religion is a sensitive subject for a big part of the human species especially older generations. Nevertheless given its core function in a person’s identity and in philosophy I must write on it. Disc…
Photography & Design
A hobby of mine since being in middle school has been photography. I started off with digital but in 2018 I picked up and fell in love with film photography. Film photography has a unique ‘grammar’ to…
Taking time off before big changes
11 months ago I quit my full-time position in a high-paying and well-respected tech job in arguably one of the most innovative companies in the industry. Most people around me thought and sometimes st…
Squishers vs Builders
I heard an interesting saying that comments on two different types of people: squishers and builders. The idea goes that people can either help build the sand castle or go around breaking/squishing on…
Music, Culture, & Change
I believe that music is central to human nature. It is expressed through culture but the seed of it is utterly human. Music can be a rollercoaster for our emotions. It can help us get through the wors…
Nightclubs vs Raves
On a lighter note this week, I wanted to write about how much I started to dislike the classic nightclub… think pop songs, bouncers who favor (good-looking) girls, VIP tables, and bottle service. Inst…
(Rate of) Change
A fact of life: change is constant. However, while speaking to an elder Buddhist lady in Leh, Ladakh, I became aware that the rate of change is what matters more than the change itself. Currently, rur…
Minimum Reserve Requirements: the dark horse in the FED toolbox
The past decade has been unprecedented in terms of financial policy. Specifically, low-interest rates and central bank stimulus into economies around the globe starting from arguably the 1970s/80s (in…
Commentaries on Peter Thiel’s “The Straussian Moment”
If you are inclined towards Philosophical topics of discussion I highly recommend you watch Peter Thiel’s conversation with Peter Robinson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRleB034EC8&t=177s In the se…
The definition of Technology
Since I discuss technology a fair bit here I deem it necessary to explain the definition of technology from my perspective so we can all get on the same page. In the current zeitgeist, the term techno…
The need to re-diversify in a globalized world
The inspiration for this piece comes after writing “ Systems. Leverage Points. The limits of growth and the growth of limits! ”. I recommend reading that before unpacking this one. Our ever-globalized…
Systems. Leverage points. The limits of growth and the growth of limits!
Systems thinking is a framework for understanding the underlying mechanisms that rule the interactions of our world and ecosystems. If you are an educated, thoughtful, &/ motivated person it's more li…
What is value? What is productive? A brief post on capitalism
From my perspective, one of the most critical questions we need to ask ourselves, in our hyper-technologist and financialized world, is ‘What is value?’. And not just ask it… but agree on a general st…
The future can take a long time & the myth of first mover advantage
It has taken me longer than I would have liked to realize that “the future can take a long time”. This graph is taken from Ben Evan’s 2023 presentation on tech trends. Sergey Nazarov, the co-founder o…
Union Square Ventures
This post is in pure honor to Union Square Ventures, a venture capital partnership based out of New York City. I have been reading Fred Wilson’s blog for at least the past six years which you can find…
Incentivizing the Preservation of the Earth Systems
Originally published during an Ethereum Hackathon in Q2 2021 & lightly edited in March 2023. Collect on Mirror here. Abstract This paper aims to describe a new protocol based on cryptographic primitiv…
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