PinnedFermi’s Solution: Do Truly Profound Beings Cease Propagation into Extinction?“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” - Ernest HemingwayDec 30, 2021Dec 30, 2021
Invasion of Idiots: Parkinson’s Law of Social Activism“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” - attributed to George CarlinJul 1, 20221Jul 1, 20221
Shooting the Pianist: Boarding Passes, Baggage Tags, and the Invisible Ones“Yelling at the receptionist is no more successful than hijacking a plane at the ticket counter… you aren’t going to get anywhere.” …Nov 9, 2021Nov 9, 2021
We Not Me: Two Phenomena at the Heart of Poor Decisions, Disasters, and the Growing Social Divide“I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no I in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe…Sep 19, 2021Sep 19, 2021
Happy Forever: In a Relentless Pursuit of Fleeting Pleasures“The unexamined life is not worth living.” - Socrates, at his trial for impiety and corrupting the youth, as documented by PlatoAug 15, 2021Aug 15, 2021
Treatment Worse than the Illness: How the Study of Iatrogenics can have a Profound Impact on Our…“All of men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” - Blaise Pascal, PenséesMay 31, 2021May 31, 2021
COVID-19: India’s Deadly Second Wave and UK’s WWII ExperienceAlbeit late spring, it was a gloomy month of May in the year 1940 in the United Kingdom. Winston Churchill had just been appointed the…May 7, 2021May 7, 2021
Nor Any Drop To Drink: A Global Water Crisis Which Shouldn’t Be“Water is sufficient…the spirit moves over water.” - Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce HomoApr 28, 2021Apr 28, 2021
Into the Abyss: Why we may be staring at an Unparalleled Unemployment Crisis“No country, however rich, can afford to waste its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest…Aug 15, 20201Aug 15, 20201
Be the Change: Why Child Adoption is the Answer to some of our Direst Problems“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” - Oprah WinfreyJun 5, 2020Jun 5, 2020
New Deal with it: How Infrastructure and Reforms can help India Emerge Stronger from the Crisis“Every man has a right to life; and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt on govt’s…May 6, 2020May 6, 2020
Let those helicopters come — India’s Modern Money moment?My professor of Monetary Economics at the University of Mumbai, Romar Correa, would often remind us about the string-like nature of the…Mar 31, 2020Mar 31, 2020
Collect Your Monthly Check as You Pass GO“I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective — the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by…Mar 21, 2020Mar 21, 2020
