Chapter 4: The Cost of Ambition Focus: A period of setback or reflection, grappling with the consequences of your choices or the world’s flaws. Assumption: Your interest in the Aral Sea disaster suggests an awareness of systemic failures. Narrative: Share a personal struggle—burnout, disillusionment with bureaucracy, or witnessing environmental devastation. Reflect on how it reshaped … Continue reading From X’s Grok 29 April 2025:
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A Pity Beyond All Telling…
…is hid in the heart of love. Wrote Yeats, and went on to describe the pleasurable experience of…worrying, I reckon, about one’s love object, even if he or she really isn’t in any immediate danger, none beyond the mortality we all share: “A pity beyond all telling/Is hid in the heart of love:/The folk that … Continue reading A Pity Beyond All Telling…
Atlantis USA
Eggs That’s what got me thinking this morning as I prepared my fave breakfast (soft-boiled, with pieces of toast crumbled in..😋) As the deep gold yolk spurted up at me, suddenly…….I’m at a party in a neighborhood in suburban Philadelphia. In a….well, I reckon you’d call it a “housing development”, but an old one. A … Continue reading Atlantis USA
“Sky Flakes”
”It is blue butterfly day here in Spring/And with these skyflakes down in flurry on flurry,/There is more unmixed color on the wing/Than flowers will show for days, unless they hurry! But these are flowers that fly, and seem to sing,/And now, from having ridden out desire/They lie closed over in the wind, and cling/Where … Continue reading “Sky Flakes”
The April Fools
Those are my neighbors up here on the Plateau who expect Spring in April. This morning we’re waking up to a beautiful fluffy snowfall. It was raining when we took our walk about 11 PM, but changed over during the night, So now I’m looking out upon a “landscape drawn in pearly monotones”, as the … Continue reading The April Fools
Peerless
..that’s me No I don’t mean I’m head ‘n’ shoulders above my peers; I mean I don’t HAVE any. I’d say our closest peers are usually our college friends, right? They are of an age, and of a socioeconomic and educational level, with us. Where are these women now? How do they look? Have they … Continue reading Peerless
India-China Startup Ecosystem Comparison – An Unbiased View
For over a week, there has been a comparison across social media between the startup ecosystems of India and China. Shortly after, during the second ‘Startup Maha Kumbh’ event in Delhi, India’s Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal repeated the same points verbatim. It’s unclear whether the meme influenced the minister or vice versa. While comparisons … Continue reading India-China Startup Ecosystem Comparison – An Unbiased View
Dear Things
Sitting here in the living room of my beloved childhood home, I count 13 objects just on the mantelpiece alone. I didn’t put all of them there; they’ve been there since I was a kid. I didn’t buy any of them. There they are: 6 bronze figures, a cigarette holder made from a tiger skull, … Continue reading Dear Things
X Automatically Suspends Me Again For Impersonating Myself!
This Pic Or Los Tres Amigos Photo?
…for the cover of my book?





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