The case for sustainability was never about ROI, it was about doing the right thing which guards reputational risk in the era of radical transparency due to the digital panopticon.

Impact is more than compliance as it adds more muscle to do well over the long term with patient capital.

The polycrisis is about restoration, regeneration and resilience. There are a number of layers to sustainability in an era of geopolitical black swans. SOPs and check lists are simplistic to capture anything meaningful.

When we think about EVs, it’s not only low carbon and clean air but think green jobs and critical minerals from Chile and Congo.

Time for framework jockeys in Sustainability are numbered as the turn towards more than reporting is here.

I read and write to engage with the life of the mind and not for the h-index as I am not gunning for tenure. And i have diverse interests from impact to Indian Ocean Tarikh to entrepreneurship to writing. I am working towards a PhD as well. My day job is as a venture builder in the impact space, and have worked in the policy realm for a better part of a decade in Singapore and KL. In India, I work with think tanks which contribute to governance and foreign policy discourse in the country.

Ideas and action can co-exist, life is a portfolio rather than a linear resume for the hiring algorithm with keywords. The era of AI is for zero to one, as only what is commoditised can be fed into a training engine. Identify problems and solve them, and a white space has not even been defined. The move from diagnostic to anticipatory is the big shift in our polycrisis world.