Surprisingly we are not talking enough about methane problem. It is 30 times more dangerous than CO2.
Do you want to make a career in climate solutions and sustainability space? Figure out which problem you want to solve and what kind of skills it requires. It will take some time to know this but it is absolutely critical.
#climatecareers #Careers #ClimateActionNow
The State of the Carbon Dioxide Removal – No where close to what is needed.
- The current status of Carbon Dioxide Removal is just a fraction of what is needed to achieve our goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees.
- The total CDR is approximately 2 GtCO2 per year compared to 12-16 GtCO2 per year required for meeting Paris Agreement.
- We have put an unsubstantiated hope in ‘Novel’ technologies that would bail us out by removing carbon from the air. Unfortunately, so far these ‘novel’ technologies have remained nascent or emerging and almost all the CDR has been through conventional methods. Out of 2GtCO2 CDR achieved, the novel technologies (BECCS: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage, Biochar, and others) have contributed only 0.002 GtCO2.
We need this. ChatGPTZero #OpenAI
Jaipur Literature Festival is one event that I keep on missing for one reason or another. Next time again. #Litfest #jlf
A trip to Auroville, Verite before I get back to cold and gloomy Delhi!
Openai ChatGPT3 and the Robot Curve
With public availability of ChatGPT3 people got suddenly exposed to Artificial Intelligence and what it can do. Some are being alarmed about what all careers will be lost and some are enthusiastic about what all possibilities we will unlock. For those who are scared about their careers and job losses, this is not something that is happening for the first time. Marty Neumeier’s Robot Curve explains this quite succinctly.
The Robot Curve depicts how creative and thinking processes get routinised and automated overtime. Creative work when it becomes well understood it becomes skilled work and then rote work and then goes all the way to be come robotic work. It keeps on repeating. The only thing that we can do is to reinvent and transform ourselves to move up on this curve by preparing ourselves to do more creative and original work. Continuous learning and up-skilling oneself to do more original and creative work is the only way to remain relevant.
Curiosity, especially about the larger context of professional environment developments that can affect once career or things they care for is often underestimated.
Currently reading: Life Is Hard by Kieran Setiya 📚
What is happening in Joshi Math is sad reminder that we are not respecting the carrying capacity of our ecosystems. All our hill-stations are in very precarious positions. #RespectNature #JoshimathIsSinking
History is fascinating. It can help one learn from past and shape the future but it also has the risk of sucking one in past glory or failures and make one oblivious of what future is asking from oneself.
A quick trip to Nandi Hills from Bengaluru.
Reading Theme for this year: Nature and Religion
I just ordered the first lot of books this year on my kindle. Most of these books are on Nature, Sustainability and Religion. This is in sync with what I have decided to be the key theme for reading this year. I want to read and explore the relationship between Nature and Religion.
There is no denying that our lifestyle and choices that we make are one of the most critical factors in the way we engage with ‘Nature’. Greed and a lack of compassion are the main reasons behind all the devastation and imbalance we have caused in our ecosystem. Religions and spiritual movements have expounded a lot on the topics of ‘greed’, ‘compassion; and ‘lifestyle’. I am hope to connect the dots and get more insight on how we can be more compassionate and mindful in our lifestyle choices when it comes to dealing with nature.
One of the thing that I really found worth the effort is to maintain an yearly list of books that I read. I have been doing this from 2006 and once in a while I go through the list to find many books that I read and now I have forgotten entirely and I go back to explore the books again. santoshsingh.net/tag/readi…
Auroville Visitor Center #auroville #india #2023
Ameya’s gift for me. A notebook that she picked up from Ramanashram!
The day apple gets its Files app right, I would be able to use iPad as my emergency laptop replacement. Sadly, the File management is the biggest bottleneck on the iOS to be a good replacement of a laptop. Also, iCloud storage while fully baked in but still not the best cloud storage solution. Having just a simple way to mark a folder for offline storage and background sync across all devices will be a great addition. There are workarounds but not as seamless it should be.
Auroville has always been a comforting place for me. It never fails in reminding me of what life can be vs what it is.
My Reading List – 2022
I already wrote about what happened with my reading routine and habit this year. But still managed to read some books. Here are the books that I finished this year. There are at least 3-4 books that I am done halfway and will include them in the next years list.
- Four Thousand Weeks : Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burman
- The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
- Don’t Even Think About It by George Marshall
- All We an Save : Truth, Coverage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
- Where the Money Is by Adam Seessel
- A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz
- The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths
- The Maid by Nita Prose
- Dark Horse by Gregg Hurwitz
- The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier
The first two in the list are recommended to anyone who is interested in reading books that fundamentally change your perspectives about many things. The first one changes the way you look at success, time, and life and the second one changes the way you look at money.
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