Identity for a migrant is an archipelago of fragments, paperwork as patchwork, languages as outfits, food as survival but the bayt and the watan is a place in the soul as shrapnel.
HKBU Presentation.
Presented in the Hong Kong Baptist University Graduate Students Conference today morning on Precarity and Platform Work in Jakarta along with my PhD colleague Anders Kirstein Møller, with the on the ground research support of Pak Alfian A Pelu, Labour Activist Researcher with LIPS, Jakarta.
Zoom is a democratizing tool in the words of Prof Debjani Bhattacharya, historian at the University of Zurich; as there were presenters from Singapore, Hong Kong, Yunan and Dhaka in the Pandemic New Normal session.
Hubris.
Its really hilarious how folks associate their sense of the self to a brand, in particular the optics on Linkedin, as once the firm finds a cheaper resource, the person will be replaced as a cog. There is a probation to clear, right. Find the value in ones skills and the ability to deliver rather than the rhetoric.
The Present of Work.
Before talking about ‘The Future of Work’, how about understanding the present pandemic related disruptions and discontinuities where communities of practice were divided into remote and precarious front-liner, creating a work-based caste system of the present.
Bhagwa AAP
The Hindu Nationalist Firmament has a new member in the AAP. The alternative is here along with Shiv Sena.
Skills Bucket
There are three buckets in any knowledge sector work i.e. Subject Matter Expertise, Program Delivery Expertise and Rain Making. If one brings in revenue and solves vexed problems, then the market will hire you. Stop blaming neoliberal capitalism, and ‘upgrade’.
Feedback Loop.
There are two ways to process feedback, one to sulk, the other to treat it as radical candor and grow with it.
I have grown the most from the worst feedback i have received.
Samosa in Singapura
An SGD 10 Samosa as tapas, at a tony fine dining place, made me remember samosa pav in Navi Mumbai, outside Vashi Station.
Moral Imperative.
Activists are moral entrepreneurs. An ability to imagine a fairer world needs tremendous guts where is no apparently apt founder market fit in place.
Political Valency.
In this woke era, everything has a political valency hence the line between business, activists, and investors as the climate era.
The line is blurred.
