Only if we study the granular character of everyday life in creative ways, we might offer the cognitive tools to a hope free generation to deal with the textures of quotidian turbulence better.

A core skill of the Future of Work era is the ability to relearn, fast and proficient to crack the task with a humanity with only our innate vulnerability can lend. We are different from algorithms.

The future of fiscally sustainable businesses not dependent on venture funding will be offline, and relationship oriented. Anything which is easily available will not build a payer centric business. Everyone is a content creator now days, however it is a low entry barrier business. High end solutions will always be boutique, and scale is not always a profitable outing. Business is a value creation enterprise.

Think essential services.

To break away from the performative act, is itself radical. We write with our bodies.

Insecure people make the worst teachers. For the learner, take the best and move on.

No one cares about your resume when you hit hard times or when you die. The obsession with outcomes is paradoxically hinders the process. Be in the state of flow rather than a perennial analysis paralysis mode. What will happen, should turn to, What can i do now to build better?

Arabic is an international language, Dr Amitav Ghosh in the Jamia-Wits Talk on writing the Oceanic Imagination. Bangla has the same number of speakers however it is not an international language but a language of intimacy. Bangla in Brooklyn to Venice to Dubai to Singapore. It is a global language.

Yesterday, on my flight to Singapore i found two skilled insulation works technicians aka migrants workers from Kolkata speaking in thick Bardhaman dialect of Bangla which is very familiar as a part of my family comes from Birbhum/Asansol belt. They are a part of a rising trend from mofussil Bengal from Hindu agrarian families to take up work in Singapore, in parallel to their cousins from across the border.

Malda and Mushirdabad has long held diaspora networks in the Gulf.

It is interesting to note these transnational migrant worker networks which are taking root in West Bengal. Bengali diaspora is more than the standard categories of the East Coast Presidency College Grad Student and the West Coast Jadavpur IT grad.

I have a tentative reading list in the making for ‘fresh of the boat’ technical experts and investors who are keen to partner in a post carbon Khaleej. The Airport Bookshop is not representative at all. Gulf is not an ATM, it has thaqafat and tarikh, or culture & history.

The context differs every few kilometres, the dialect of Arabic and Modern Southern Arabian Languages Group Languages and the traditional professions Infrastructure is not built on cultural white space. Engineers, Urban Planners and Architects need to understand the background ‘code’.