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Given that the value of JPY had weakened by 15% since our last Japan trip in Aug 2023, we decided to plan another trip again. This time it was to a city we had never visited before. My friends were always talking about Fukuoka and how wonderful it was. It has lovely weather, cheap and…

I have always been interested in how American politics had degenerated to the current state of facts doesn’t matter and it’s us against them mentality. We see a total distrust of the political system and media leading to the widespread belief in conspiracy theories and the “trust no one” mindset. This led America down the…

There is just so much AI-related news coming out every week that it is so hard to track which are the ones that will change the world and which are just the flavour-of-the-day types that will fade away. But the trend is clear newer innovations will continue to amaze us and set the tone for…

Just when you thought that Nvidia cannot surprise the market anymore, it did it again at its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on Monday. CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote announcement of its new products blew the competition away. Again! Just less than a month ago, Nvidia’s stunning quarterly financial results (which I wrote about in an earlier blog)…

What is a career pivot? It is a planned, purposeful change in career direction. It can be a move to a related field, or to something completely new. Whatever its direction, a pivot is a meaningful change that requires thought and careful planning. An ex-colleague had recently asked me why I hadn’t considered writing about my…

This week was the planned Opening Ceremony of our fund management company on Wed. The founder had chosen a few auspicious dates/times for us about a month ago to pick one out of 3 dates with a specific timing of between 1100 to 1300. We decided to go for 06 Mar, this Wed. It was…

Remember the days when we were told about El Nina and El Nino? Some years were supposed to be hotter and the other year will be cooler. Nowadays, we have started to see wild swings in temperature within the year and even weeks. We have Climate Change to blame. 2023 is now officially the warmest…

I wrote about AI and what to expect in 2024 a few weeks back. I predicted that it would be a crazy and bullish year of AI advancement given what we had seen over the previous 14 months when ChatGPT was introduced. Little did I expect that within the last 2 weeks alone, there was…