The One-Stop Shop For All My Writing — I write (mostly) about the books I read. I aim to be the de facto “book guy” on Medium. Everything I have written is catalogued, sorted by latest and accessible here. This is a live article that I update with my latest posts, so you won’t miss a thing. Appreciate…

10 Insane Facts From Bill Bryson’s “The Body” — From harrowing descriptions of chainsaw mastectomies to advances in laser-gunning cancer, Bill Bryson’s sprawling, acerbic masterpiece is unputdownable. Bryson’s informative treatise takes us on a head-to-toe examination of every nook and cranny of the human body. Fact-filled, slapstick, poetic, heartbreaking. Jampacked with information, this is a forensic study of the…

Harnessing The Power Of Moments To Create Riveting Content — “If you ask them, why are you not using that latrine? They would tell you, ‘Are you sure I should put shit in that structure…that is even better than my house?’” Kar realised that open defecation was not a hardware problem, it was a behavioural problem. Chip & Dan Heath…

Season 1, Episode 0: Backstory — I thought it’d take a couple of months. A quarter, tops. It’s been a year. So far, no good. It should’ve been a routine, run-of-the-mill, pick-the-best-of-the-bunch sorta affair. It wasn’t. I’ve been balls deep in the “process” for a year. Vying, wooing, Whatsapping, sexting, right-swiping, gas-lighting, sweet-talking. I’ve hired obsequious…

A Steak A Day Kept My Pounds Away — Granted half of that was probably water weight. But my clothes fit better, I feel much stronger and I’ve even trimmed a couple of inches belly blubber. The “carnivore diet” is legit. And proclaims all manner of benefits. …

Bitcoin isn’t here to take part — it’s here to take over. — Caveat: “What you love will often appear to be the solution.” Twitter now allows you to send money to anyone anywhere at any time for almost no cost using the Bitcoin network. El Salvador has already deemed Bitcoin as legal tender. “But Bitcoin has no use! What does it really…

Debase, Dematerialize, Decentralize — Central banks will continue to counterfeit money. Your savings will continue to be debased. All “profit” numbers will go up but there won’t be any real growth. Your stock portfolio will compound but your purchasing power will diminish. You will sweat through your tedious job but your fiat paycheck will…

20% of all US Dollars were printed in the last year — Here’s a thought experiment. Let’s say your total savings were $1. And you lived in a world where the entire monetary supply was $100. You own 1% of the entire monetary supply. Awesome. A year later, the printers go brrrrr and there is now $200 in the world. …

Achievement Unlocked — I am sitting on two job offers today. Both offer more money, more responsibility and more opprtunities for growth. I’ve no idea which one to go for (if only I could do both!) but this is a wonderful problem to have. Success isn’t a job offer though. Nor is it…