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Finally, I did reshuffle my entire portfolio amid all the chaos caused by the Adani-Hindenberg issue. Better to hold cash than to be in the market till we figure out what our regulators are up to. The entire episode has made the retail investors suffer the most.

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I hardly recommend music albums and songs but I could not resists recommending Qala. Absolutely brilliant work from Amit Trivedi that must be celebrated. open.spotify.com/album/3yV…

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The Power of Written Words

Never underestimate the power of written words. Indian investors can vouch for this now. We lost a lot of money despite having no direct exposure to Adani Group.

This whole episode has shaken the confidence of Indian retail investors and put a question mark on our regulatory framework and loopholes in that.

#HindenbergReport

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Surprisingly we are not talking enough about methane problem. It is 30 times more dangerous than CO2.

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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

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The State of the Carbon Dioxide Removal – No where close to what is needed.

The first edition of the state of the Carbon Dioxide Removal report is out. And, it confirms what many of us have been reiterating in different ways.
  1. 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.
  2. The total CDR is approximately 2 GtCO2 per year compared to 12-16 GtCO2 per year required for meeting Paris Agreement.
  3. 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.
These findings underline the urgency that countries need to have more aggressive targets for reducing carbon emissions and the traditional CDR (Land Use Change and Forestry – includes agroforestry, improved forest management, wetland restoration, afforestation etc) as we keep our focus on finding and developing novel technologies for CDR. This is necessary as in all the scenarios we have, we do not have any options to achieve Net Zero/Decarbonization without CDR.
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We need this. ChatGPTZero #OpenAI

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Jaipur Literature Festival is one event that I keep on missing for one reason or another. Next time again. #Litfest #jlf

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A trip to Auroville, Verite before I get back to cold and gloomy Delhi!

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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.

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Curiosity, especially about the larger context of professional environment developments that can affect once career or things they care for is often underestimated.

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Currently reading: Life Is Hard by Kieran Setiya 📚

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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

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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.

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A quick trip to Nandi Hills from Bengaluru.

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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.

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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…

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Auroville Visitor Center #auroville #india #2023

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Ameya’s gift for me. A notebook that she picked up from Ramanashram!