French Revolution Part 3: The World of 1700s

The Ancient World can be construed as a narrative of singularities, with globe-spanning empires founded upon the fabled bounties of the Fertile Crescent dominating the story. The advent of agricultural technology and the arrival of the Roman Climate Optimum had endowed the men and women of the Oecumene with the incentives to coalesce into three …

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French Revolution Part 2: The Political Theory of Revolution

Every society can be likened to a swirling whirlpool of conflicting interests: a volatile amalgamation of disparate constituencies operating under a largely uniform set of values which are defined as ideology, faith, morality, or tradition. Each interest group is a current of its own, driven by a distinct set of demands and agendas, thus it …

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The Shift in Global Perspective: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic.

When we think of a pandemic, our minds go straight to something along the lines of “widespread global disease that causes harm”. Naturally, it isn’t something we want to be omnipresent in our daily lives; it has caused millions of cases of mortality and morbidity, spiked unemployment rates in many countries, and pushed many countries, …

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The Economic Implications of the Covid-19 Pandemic

I’m sure we’ve all heard of the Covid-19 (Covid) pandemic by now. Even more than 3 years onwards from it’s origination in Wuhan, China, RAT and PCR tests are being conducted on a daily basis, drastic lockdown and social distancing regulations are being enforced in many regions across the world, and many of the world’s …

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Innovation Part 4: Sports Tech

Previously, we discussed the development of new technology in sports, namely new shoes for running, and the wonders that these shoes have springboarded how far we have come when pushing our limits to the test. In this part, I will delve deeper on the hidden impacts of these technologies. When new technologies come out, will …

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Success story & principles of investment in economics

“I believe that understanding what is good is obtained by looking at the way the world works and figuring out how to operate in harmony with it to help it evolve” - Ray Dalio. Simply put, economics is the study of satisfying our infinite number of wants with our finite resources. What do we produce? …

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