Essay
Nothing Is Personal, and Nothing Lasts Forever
Climate discourse assumes nature has a correct equilibrium that humans disrupted—but the history of life suggests there was never one to begin with.
Your Grain of Salt
This blog is where I let my mind wander. Here I write freely about whatever catches my attention. I don’t aim to be an expert on any single topic. Instead, I try to be a careful witness, someone who notices patterns, contradictions, and quiet truths that often go unspoken. You’ll find no rigid theme here. What ties it all together is a single intention: to offer my honest observations and a small “grain of salt”, nothing more, nothing less. If you enjoy thinking about life from different angles, if you appreciate slow reflections over quick opinions, then you’re in the right place. Welcome to my corner of the internet. I’m glad you’re here.
Featured
Essay
The Eclipse and the Economics of Scarcity
A solar eclipse isn't extraordinary because the physics changes—it's extraordinary because it's rare. What that reveals about scarcity, attention, and where economic value actually comes from.
Reflection
Me, AI, and the Em Dash
Why does AI love the em dash so much?
Essay
The Two Games
An exploration of the core paradox of human civilization: the zero-sum game vs. the positive-sum engine of economic growth, and the ecological wall we've hit.
Series
Series
01
Explaining Strategy
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Explaining PESTEL
03
Explaining Porter's Five Forces
04
Explaining Porter's Value Chain
05
Explaining SWOT
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Explaining the Ansoff Matrix
07
Explaining the BCG Matrix
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Explaining Blue Ocean Strategy
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Explaining the Business Model Canvas
10
Explaining SOSTAC®
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Explaining the Marketing Funnel
Library
Essay
Nothing Is Personal, and Nothing Lasts Forever
Climate discourse assumes nature has a correct equilibrium that humans disrupted—but the history of life suggests there was never one to begin with.
Essay
The Eclipse and the Economics of Scarcity
A solar eclipse isn't extraordinary because the physics changes—it's extraordinary because it's rare. What that reveals about scarcity, attention, and where economic value actually comes from.
Film
The Hunger Games Is Brilliant—Until Its Own World Has to Think Too Hard: A Critical Reading of the Trilogy
The Hunger Games is politically sophisticated—until you look closely at the alliances, the broadcast decisions, and the protagonist the plot has to keep explaining things to. A critical reading of the trilogy's own gaps.
Film
When Katniss Is Just Katniss: Power, Spectacle, and the Unintended Revolution of The Hunger Games
Katniss Everdeen never sets out to lead a revolution—she becomes one by refusing to stop being herself. A reading of how personal authenticity becomes the Capitol's greatest threat.
Film
When the Camera Becomes the Capitol: A Critical Review of The Hunger Games Films
The Hunger Games arena is also a television production. A critical look at what the films get right about the camera as an instrument of power—and the control room they never quite show us.
Essay
Ice Cream, Law, and Negotiation
We like to play around and experiment with the demarcation between what is permissible and to what extent it is no longer permissible.
Reflection
Me, AI, and the Em Dash
Why does AI love the em dash so much?
Essay
The Two Games
An exploration of the core paradox of human civilization: the zero-sum game vs. the positive-sum engine of economic growth, and the ecological wall we've hit.
Essay
The Criminalization of Rest
Why the guilt we feel when resting is not a personal failure, but a collision between our ancient biological hardware and the relentless software of modernism.
Essay
The Compounding Cost of Regret
What finance teaches us about the cost of staying in wrong decisions: the price of fixing a mistake in life doesn't stay static—it compounds.
Self
Paying a Debt I Never Knew I Owed
Reading Unstoppable Us felt like paying off a debt to myself—one I had neither acknowledged nor even realized I carried.
Observation
The Smoky Train and the Untouchable Bully
A woman smoking on a Paris RER train and US foreign policy share an uncomfortable truth: laws are only as strong as the willingness to enforce them.
Ideas
Remembering, Forgetting, and the Economy of Memory
From Islamic remembrance traditions to the energy cost of AI training data: is there a sustainable way to store memory—digital or otherwise?
Observation
Muted Awareness: Breaking Even with a Loud Stranger
A man typing loudly in a library, a breakeven calculation, and an unexpected lesson about empathy and self-awareness.
Ideas
What If Adam Refused to Learn the Names?
School is merely the art of naming things, while intelligence is an innate feature of human nature. But what if Adam had refused to learn the names?