The world is a game of opposites, and we are constantly walking the tightrope in between. Thin lines separate the bold and the reckless, the law-bending and the law-breaking, the genius and the insane. You can argue that the customer is always right, or you can argue that they may…

A Semi-Technical Point of View — Let’s start with a transaction — I need to send 0.1 BTC to my brother. What really goes on under the hood? I make a transaction by providing a digital signature, which is a function of my private key hashed with the message (-0.1 BTC for me, +0.1 BTC to…

Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, or Facebook — Our lives are now so dependent on the big five of tech: Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google. It’s hard to imagine life without them, and it’s small wonder why they are the most valuable firms on Earth today. We saw how everyone went crazy with the recent outages from…

A look back at 2020 Part 2 — 2021 did not feel like a standalone year. It felt more like an extension of 2020. The same stories, extended like a drawn-out soap opera — year two of humanity versus the pandemic. Vaccinations offered a welcome respite, but new variants attack with a vengeance. We continued to stay at…

This is it, another new chapter. Things have been moving so fast over the past couple of months. My last weeks at S.I.M. were especially frantic — New management coming in. All the work to manage and hand over. Managing exit communications and wrapping up. Getting the documents ready to…

I have a strange relationship with watches. When I was young, I used to be scared of them. It felt like a ticking time bomb on my wrist, reminding me of the seconds, minutes, and hours that trickle away, never to come back. …

Making sense of the NFT craze — Go ahead, download this image. It’s free. To truly ‘own’ this image though, you have to fork out a small fortune — roughly the cost of a brand-new Toyota. The only difference? A string of numbers and letters on a distributed ledger saying that this image is yours, certifying this…

The world is changing in strange and unprecedented ways. While there are many ways to make sense of it, I’ve found it most helpful to observe the changes through the lens of these five macro forces: Climate change and sustainability The ascendancy of China Increased inequality Aging population Digital disruption …