I have always been rejected by gate keepers and have found that the space beyond the gate can be an opportunity to create a new category, disrupt the mainstream and take your own chair to the table when you are not invited to one. I do not take no for an answer 🙂

In a fact which is subliminal or foregrounded that in the knowledge worker space such as digital, consulting, and financial services there is a translation of brain power into products. While there is a low entry barrier to starting up, it is a crowded space and needs intellectual and execution excellence on a different level to sustain and thrive.

A person will always have well-paid work if one is oriented towards solving problems of intractable pain points and is ready to do everything it takes to build. The ability to do multiple Zero to One at every stage, in projects, verticals, scale ups is a superpower.

Industries will be disrupted but problems will be there to be hacked.

Dr Tharoor played a losing game to win. He used the trick which US Presidential candidates in primary season use to get noticed for other public offices like Pete or Akka.

Dr Tharoor is now a mainstream political name in India with a political renewal beyond Trivandrum.

A process of crumbling and remaking is needed for the purpose, potential and promise to eke out of hopelessness. The primary objective of learning through research is to find innovative ideas that flow through an ambient risk. Failing and Learning are derivatives of risk.

A huge plus of learning and knowing is the realization of how we do not yet know, the ethos of which is embedded into each training I design.

Entrepreneurship is problem solving at scale while creating jobs along the way. Valuations are one metric to raise capital and motivate people. Climate Change Adaption and Net Positive Transition is one of the biggest challenges to solve that needs attention and patient capital.

The problem of climate change in a way is a problem of capital allocation. Solutions can be deployed as a collective of actors as each node, the academic, the consultant and the banker have differential incentive architecture. Wicked problems need new ways to solve problems, which can be configured by an entrepreneurial spirit.

Life is a relay

Where the baton is made

Of the residues of attempts

Only to realize

That the baton

Was Life Itself

#spokenword

Across cities of the Indian Ocean where i have lived namely Singapore, KL, Muscat, Mumbai, and Dubai migrants are a part of the mainstream though there is a concerted mainstream culture to erase the culture that have had built them. The Bhojpuri Bhaiyas in Mumbai to Malabaris in the Gelf to Machas in the Nusantara their lingos dominate archives of the everyday than the state Maktab.

The powerlessness of the dominant majority migrant communities saturates the quotidian. Yet the joy to survive stands out as a counter against the hegemonic one language, and anti-outsider policies.

The food places of the aloo puri or the parotta or the prata stand out.

There is an element of excitement, wonder and a lightness of life which comes through the art of research and writing. Structures in academia drain the very essence of research into a rat race for citations that converts into trauma as toxic critique dominates. Free research and writing to an extent where problem solving, and solutions are the key and not the h-index temple run.

We write and express ourselves at each moment as text dominates in the realm of the hyperconnected digital. We read more than ever and write more than ever before.

#research#writing

ESG as a domain needs to be powered by clarity that needs to dawn in with research that has financial numbers and a better sense of meaning making about integrated risk rather than viewing it as three separate blocks, as risk is unitary for an organization. ESG can be gauged as a combination of esg and ESG with the small letter and the capitalized letter interacting with each other in an environment that shapes the risk, the context and the nature of the sector and the industry.

The role of the evaluation and who does it also matters in the interpretive domain of ESG rankings, ratings, and impact assessments. The mental model of the evaluator will be different and dependent on the place, power dynamics and experience.

ESG impact ratings are not a monolith, it is important to read the offer details before investing. The methodology and the epistemics of it will lead to the tangible nature of risk. A decolonial or a non-Eurocentric approach is an opening into a global south understanding of ESG risk as diverse cultures frame risk differently.

#ESG