Corporate lawyer. A simple hermit with a complicated reading list. Collector of arcana.
Maharashtra, India
Joined October 2015
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I don’t think artificial intelligence will replace humans anytime soon. Someone still has to explain to the printer that the document is, in fact, there
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TIL the iconic James Bond theme song was based on a song composed for a musical adaptation of Naipaul’s “House for Mr. Biswas”
From Patrick French’s Naipaul biography
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In 50 years, one of the most common deathbed regrets will be “I wasted my life on short-form videos” and the darkest part is they won’t even remember a single one
What happens to businesses whose competitive advantage is information when artificial intelligence makes information processing dramatically cheaper?
The London Stock Exchange Group’s $3.535 billion acquisition of credit intelligence firm Octus provides an interesting case study.
It is betting on proprietary data in an AI driven world. AI can process information faster, but it cannot automatically access information that is difficult to find, verify and structure. Octus specialises in precisely that kind of credit intelligence. wsj.com/business/deals/londo…
The first hints of winter call for a little Lata Mangeshkar and Sahir Ludhianvi. Sharing ‘Thandi Hawayein’ for the season.
youtu.be/P6r3srBQz0k?si=CSlz…
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I often remind myself that one of the central tasks in this life is to cultivate sensitivity to the sacred and the beautiful, despite the forces that barge in from all sides to desensitize and drain the spirit.
Perhaps the real loss in a childhood without boredom is the opportunity to learn how to be one’s own company. @michaelbd begins with C.S. Lewis’s childhood to make a case for boredom as a space in which imagination, self-directed curiosity and an inner life can develop.
Boredom extinguishes itself, by allowing our passions to grow and allowing us to become interested in things outside of us, and thereby to become interesting to others. | @michaelbd
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It seems that Acemoglu finds it as difficult to listen to working-class voices as the very liberal elites he chides. Even when he wants to engage with working-class concerns, he seems unable to put aside his liberal prejudices. And so he suggests that working-class views on immigration have been influenced by propaganda and false information.
If that’s the first problem with What Happened to Liberal Democracy?, the second problem is that it’s an economist’s attempt to deal with political problems.
He even seems uncertain as to what exactly liberalism is. In one chapter, he defends the idea of self-government, claiming it is ‘suspicious of excessive power of all sorts, including those that come from intense social engineering’. But in the chapter before, he happily calls for social media to be centrally regulated.
Acemoglu’s working-class liberalism wants to be all things to all men.
Ivory-tower liberalism, My Book Review of Daron Acemoglu’s What Happened to Liberal Democracy? for @spikedonline
spiked-online.com/2026/10/29…
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Of all the places one could begin with Osho, ‘Asambhav Kranti’ is a particularly good starting point. It introduces you to both his concerns and his method - parables that make abstract ideas tangible, paradoxes that unsettle familiar assumptions, and..
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There was a time when an ad could tell a story, make you feel something, and leave you with a song for years. Gulzar, Ram Sampath, and ‘Ghar Aa Gaya Hindustan’. This one sold the feeling of coming home.
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Auberon Waugh’s 1979 essay, ‘The Road to Barnstaple’, is a reminder of a kind of conservative writing we see too little of – unapologetic about order and anti-socialism, but equally contemptuous of a Right too timid to defend its own convictions.
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