Create Art That Feeds Your Own Soul — ‘It’s not about fabric, it’s about dreams’ ― Ralph Lauren Prologue: The Hunger of One Soul SS Rajamouli is one of the most prolific directors and screenwriters in Indian cinema. His movie Bahubali 2: The Conclusion netted USD 278 million worldwide making it the second highest grossing Indian movie of all time. What is more impressive…

An Introduction to High Frequency Trading (HFT) — ‘The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead,’ — John Maynard Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform, 1923 The world of finance is staid — sedate, respectable and unadventurous. However, once every decade, a few innovations turn into a tsunami…

Can We Reclaim The Web? — Money is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.” ― Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 ‘Senator, We Run Ads’, replied Mark Zuckerberg while testifying before the US senate in April 2018. Mark was responding…

An Introduction To The Metaverse — Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes — Carl Jung Prologue There’s a very famous quote by Steve Jobs: “Some people say, “Give the customers what they want.” But that’s not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they’re going to want before they do. I think Henry…

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC’s) and The Future of Money — “There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in” — Bishop Desmond Tutu As the essay below will reveal, the story of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC’s) is a very interesting…

The Power of Lifelong Unlearning For A Generation Obsessed With Lifelong Learning — We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory — Louise Glück Prologue: A Constant Struggle It is rather unfortunate that, at most times, my capacity to unlearn continues to diminish as my mind hardens to a set of philosophies that many would characterize a ‘normal’ life. Also, a barrage of…

GPT-3, The Difference Between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Humans and The Looming Takeover of Creative Processes — “We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.”― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go On May 29, 2020, researchers at the Elon Musk, Sam Altman founded OpenAI released a…