‘”No” and “Yes” are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.’ – Baltasar Gracian, 17th century Spanish priest. Someone — I wish I remember who — said something that’s followed me quietly for years: “Saying ‘yes’ to others should never come at
“Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.“ – John Nash (1928-2015), mathematician WHILE completing my dissertation on interest rates, I had the distinct pleasure of taking a seminar with Columbia University mathematician, Andrew Gelman, a former student of John Nash. If ‘A Beautiful Mind‘ rings a
GOLD is all the rage now. The rush for physical gold is leading to shortages. It is also bringing back an old discussion – how much gold do central banks keep, why do they keep it and where do they keep it? Central banks are the biggest buyers of gold.
“You didn’t hold my hand, but you had my back.“ – Elizabeth Melissa Heloise (Bella) messaged me after she and her classmates accidentally turned the school lab into a mini fireworks show during their science project last month. CALL it whatever you want – growing up, coming of age, a
“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable
FOR the past two years, ever since the launch of ChatGPT, there has been a common refrain among companies and organisations of all sizes: We need an AI strategy! The frenzy is understandable. Nobody wants to be left behind and miss the Next Big Thing. So, many companies are rushing
‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.’ – William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature. One complaint I hear from every parent who needs to send their kid to primary school: “Aiyo, some take so long to drop
US President Donald Trump’s readiness to use coercive tariffs presents a profound threat to the postwar economic and political order, introducing an unpredictability to global commerce that makes it difficult for trade partners to know how to react — and next to impossible for businesses to plan. But he is
The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me? —Ayn Rand (1905-1982), Russian-born American writer and philosopher The intense and hostile clash in the Oval Office among US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy has astonished many observers. For
I first heard about John Nash from Professor Andrew Gelman, his former student—who also taught my Bayesian Nash Equilibrium lecture. On day one, he assigned A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar’s biography of Nash. It’s a hell of a book—459 pages of brilliance, madness and redemption. Nash cracked game theory, spiralled
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