Year: 2024

  • Why I am loving BlueSky and why you should join as well.

    Why I am loving BlueSky and why you should join as well.

    I’m loving Bluesky as a social media platform. Recently, the X, insta others have become almost ineffective as a meaningful engagement platform on the topics I care for because of their algorithm, commercial interest and their ‘influencer’ centric business model.…

  • Sweet Bean Paste – The Meaning of Life?

    Sweet Bean Paste – The Meaning of Life?

    “Is a life worth living even if it doesn’t seem to offer any value to anyone? This beautiful book by Durian Sukegawa (real name Tetsuya Akikawa) offers an answer in this heartwarming story of an old lady who decides to…

  • Prophet Song  by Paul Lynch

    Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

    Dystopian fiction has become a difficult read for me at this stage of my life. The hopelessness and suffering depicted in these stories trigger a visceral reaction that’s hard to shake off. It’s particularly difficult when my own work exposes…

  • Love And Other Thought Experiments

    Love And Other Thought Experiments

    There are several books that are often categorized as ‘genre-bending,’ but this one should be the gold standard to judge whether the term has been justifiably applied to a book. “Love and Other Thought Experiments” by Sophie Ward was longlisted…

  • European Carbon Market – It Works!

    European Carbon Market – It Works!

    Carbon markets, often used to describe the trade of carbon credits (mostly trade of voluntary carbon credits), is one of the least understood mechanisms and a polarising topic among climate activists. But Carbon markets are much more than just trade…