The question to ask before blaming neoliberal capitalism is, what skill set am i adding to the circuits of global capital or simply- what problem am i attempting to solve, or the cash i am bringing to the table.

Find where you will be appreciated and hold them close whether these are people or organizations. We find ourselves rejected or are considered unworthy as we often meet people who find us not productive in their interests, or their agendas.

The COG is in us. It just requires a F5.

The strength of ESG paradigm is the riskfication towards a value add towards a financialized product, the problem is the decontextual character towards a global measure.

It’s like a precooked frozen pizza, of no nutritional value when applied to the ground.

Glad to federal investment competition as many states are vying for the funds in Davos.

#ESG is more than carbon guys. It’s community and treating your people better. The slew of modern slavery legislations from down under to the US to the recent EU framework is the sharp litigious edge to fluffy green washing. Companies understand compliance culture well.

I really thank the HSBC exec who said how does it matter if Miami sinks, as ESG is really performative and the statement sheds light on the mindset.

Culture is perceived to be anti-scale, however everything gets refracted through culture at the point of implementation, or even the perceived global is a shared set of values too.

Start Up Founders are egotistical as they need the delusion to drive them through the depths of despair while putting on a mask of a dream to reach the impact they have envisioned. #innovation

The idea of a hegemonic post-colonial South Asia ruptures when the post-colonial diaspora becomes the refuge for the unwanted minorities such as the Bhojpuri speaker in Nepal or the Ahmadiyya in SE Asia. The migrant worker finds anchor in the diaspora as the margins of the homeland dissolve, and the shore of the diaspora becomes the dockyard.

As a professional PhD researcher who thinks, reads, writes, and interviews airport labor and automation for a living in Singapore over the past 1.5years across SE Asia and Gulf, it was surreal to observe the check in process at Changi T3 behind the glass screen with a masked-up airport worker and serpentine lines of passengers.

The process was as if the pandemic did not happen as the process was the same, although there was a shorter pre verified line where the passenger submits documents online 36 hours in advance. The approval comes in just prior to the check in beginning.

It was great to enter an airport after 16 months to drop off a kind soul who was heading for a family reunion after 30 months.

Pandemic immobility is real, but it was great seeing Changi again.

Hope to fly in July.

#fieldnotesoflife