Oh, for the love of Montaigne, for the death of nuance, what the actual fuck.
Category: Where I think like a grown-up about shit…
On workplace discrimination
So I keep calm, keep silent, keep my pay-check, and carry on.
In an escalated war of words and faces, truth suffers
Mainstream media is mainstream media. One is beholden to censors, another to instamedia zeitgeist. Neither has the moral standing upon which to strike the other.
Theranos, Fyre, and the dangers of confusing vision with mission
My parents were entrepreneurs, the unaccomplished kind residing in the white space of survivor bias, never appearing in HBR articles and McKinsey case studies. The bloody corpse of their business and their likes fertilize the ground upon which your empires of prosperity now stand. Like all entrepreneurs they have an ability to spot and visualize … Continue reading Theranos, Fyre, and the dangers of confusing vision with mission
How Theranos shut down my critical thinking
I distinctly remember that my first reaction to the indicting WSJ report on Theranos was to come to its defence. Naysayers standing in the way of progress. Vultures capitalizing on the vicissitudes of a start-up lifecycle. In hindsight, it was a total failure of critical thinking. With no skin in the game, with zero understanding … Continue reading How Theranos shut down my critical thinking
To weaponize a people
To weaponize a people, you must first carve them hollow. This eon has promised immortality in exchange for submission, that happiness is but a grasp away if you do the right thing and live the right way. So you design them in moulds and make them in factories, and draw a line around them and … Continue reading To weaponize a people
On Censorship
Someone on Quora asked: why is censorship in China a good thing. I have strong feelings about that topic, especially after reading 17 answers in defense of censorship. So this was my own answer, and I'm pretty sure I'll get skewered, but who the fuck cares. Why is Censorship in China a good thing? It … Continue reading On Censorship
Work Thoughts: Management Debt
Debt is not necessarily a bad thing. The ability to borrow from another’s surplus, or borrowing from your own future surplus, so long as it is founded on prudent optimism, creates the virtuous cycle upon which stands the capitalist faith. But debt based on unfounded speculations or deceit is what gets us into bubbles. It’s … Continue reading Work Thoughts: Management Debt
Sunlight tax and parable of the fisherman
I moved into a new apartment this week. A little one-bed room on the ground floor where grasses grow, and snails reside, cozy and resolute. A south-facing suite on the fifth floors in my building costs at least 1/3rd more, the pent house suite is double, even though the layout is identical. Based on the … Continue reading Sunlight tax and parable of the fisherman
Work thoughts to clear my head
The theme of this year is ‘innovation under constraint’. I wish I had a bigger. I wish had I more people on my team. I wish I had more time on my hands. I wish my boss is a bit more forthcoming with his thoughts. Right. Me and a billion other people. The ability to … Continue reading Work thoughts to clear my head
Pondering the economics of carry-on luggage.
A few of my flights this year suffered the plight of excessive carry-on luggage. At times it became a safety issue, where several bags had to be pile in an empty row of seats in the back. My most recent flight was an Airbus A321. At a glance, it had 20 x 6 seats in … Continue reading Pondering the economics of carry-on luggage.
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