The anti intellectual’s new treatise on risk and uncertainty. Taleb is the thinker of the generation after Black Swan, Fooled By Randomness and Anti Fragile.

People often quip that Gulf life puts one in a comfort zone lifestyle wise as far as learning is concerned as books are pricey and unavailable. I beg to differ as learning is individually driven. I bought the book here in Muscat and was a price of a meal for two in an okay place. A lot of books are available for free online. Your MacBook does not mean much if one is not accessing the right content.

#changethinker

Create your own space

It’s too crowded to ask for an inch

There are always interstices

But that’s survival

Not flourishing

Initiative and Energy

Is the key

But the hunger is what matters

Smash Walls

Crash Doors

Gate crash clubs

Invitations won’t come

Demand an invite

Mark your territory.

Digital is being weaved in to everyday life as a fibre which is indistinguishable. Digital as this fibre is predisposed as ‘advanced’ and the pre digital as not up to the mark. Smart cities are the planning manifestation of the digital, where sensors harvesting data is considered more needed than more fundamental infrastructure. It is time to interrogate digital for its merits and have a hazard warning for its minuses, such as privacy for Aadhar and the social Internet. Did the gig economy make life better for the Transporter sector? Did more information make decision making better?