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An earlier version of this piece appeared in the IIMA Alumnus Feb 2017 issue. In Robert Pirsig’s seminal work, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a student of the protagonist Phaedrus who is looking to write a five hundred word essay on the United States, finds herself at a loss for words, not knowing where to begin. Trying to describe...

Hastily written, please excuse typos. First of all I would like to thank everyone who took the time to take this poll on Facebook. You guys are fantastic people for having taken the time to do this frivolous poll and I hope it was fun. Polling has been a topic of interest for a while and it has only been exacerbated by how wrong polls have bee...

This month marks the late Michael Crichton’s 74th birth anniversary and it got me reminiscing about Jurassic Park. Released in 1993, the film made box office history led to many other Crichton stories being filmed (Disclosure, Rising Sun, Congo, Sphere, Eaters of the Dead and of course Lost World). I have read a significant chunk of what Cricht...

Scanner Darkly (the movie) directed by the brilliant Richard Linklater came out in July 2006.;The;movie has so many things;to talk about including the war on drugs (and why it cannot be won), PKD’s own creativity being fuelled by his substance abuse, how scramble suits could be the way to end racism etc. Instead, I’ve decided to pick form over ...

Beautiful piece of work - larger size pic and a quiz version of this is available at SF Signal

Why 2112 is relevant 40 years since it's release and what it means to me

With property prices in HK finally starting to ease looks like it’s finally time to think about buying. Fortunately, for a data junkie like me, a lot of websites, including banks like HSBC, provide detailed historic data on price trends and current bank valuations right down to individual floors and units for each apartment out there. However t...

I find myself coming back again and again to this wonderful David Foster Wallace speech (~20 mins) on how to deal with existential angst, that I found a few months ago. I recommend you listen to it here while reading it here. Summarizing or quoting here would be a disservice to the original so I am going to refrain from doing that. If you like ...