2024
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Climate Action – Slow and Inadequate
As I interact with people who are not immersed in the climate discourse, it is surprising that they believe that there is ‘too’ much…
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Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis
“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”― Friedrich Nietzsche “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” is a fascinating…
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Two decades of blogging and this blog
Two decades can have a transfigurative impact on our memories. Trivial moments morph into bittersweet nostalgia, while monumental events fade into relics of the…
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What I read in 2023
The absurdity of the hope that we will do things differently in the new year than what we did in the year gone by…