Spoiler Alert: This article contains my thoughts on the book which gives out spoilers. I loved the book and highly recommend reading it. (non-affiliated link) Klara is an AF The Novel is set in the future and has a lot of scientific elements. The core scientific concept that is explored in depth is that…

Disclaimer — the most important disclaimer is the fact that I am not Enlightenment by any definition and neither am I anywhere along the path striving for it. If anything I might be moving away from Enlightenment in the pursuit of Financial Independence. …

Diderot Effect takes its name from Denis Diderot an 18th Century French Philosopher. To be more specific, the idea originates from the essay titled ‘Regrets on parting with my Old Dressing Gown’. In his essay Diderot talks about how an unexpected gift of an expensive dressing gown caused him financial…

[This article was first published on happypathfire.com my blog on Personal Finance] Although I mostly write about Finance on this website, I feel this is one ‘apparent’ exception, where I write about Human Behavioral Psychology. I call this exception ‘apparent’ because I believe every long-term personal project depends a lot…

Spoiler Alert! — The rest of this article has spoilers. I would highly recommend watching the movie before reading on. Aamis, literally translates to Meat in Assamese. Aamis is the title of an Assamese movie written and directed by Bhaskar Hazarika. Innocent Beginnings Nirmali is a doctor and a lonely wife and…

There’s no sensation compared to this….. -Pink Floyd First time is the Best time Unlike most people perhaps, I can very distinctly remember my first time. I was Twenty-two years old. Not too young, not too old. I was nervous but also tremendously excited. …

I am 40 years old and have two young kids both under five years of age. I travelled and did a lot of soul searching in my 20s , trying to find the right career blah blah. Other than 200,000$s in my home equity I have no significant savings. …

The recent few weeks have been devastating for investors all over the world. Even the Major indices like the Dow and S&P 500 have lost well over 10% from their peaks. Individual stocks, especially in tourism and transport have almost halved in price. It seems like we are close to…

What is the Corona Virus Outbreak? In late 2019 and early 2020 a new Corona Virus infection originated in the city of Wuhan in China. The ability of the virus to spread rapidly from human to human is causing global panic. Governments are imposing severe restrictions on any travel to China and also within China. …