Category: Thoughts

The world reflects your own feelings back at you. Reality is neutral. Reality has no judgements.

How much perfume should one use?

Well, it should be a reward for intimacy, not a punishment for proximity.

We only accept, believe, and surrender to the thoughts that are equal to our emotional state.

Today, as the world searches for solutions to global climate change, tree planting has become more popular than ever. It’s a simple and appealing response to an overwhelming, existential crisis, and it makes for easy messaging: anyone can go out and plant a tree to help restore balance to Earth’s climate. But for many large-scale tree-planting initiatives, the focus is on the number of new trees that end up in the ground, not on planting the right trees in the right places or caring for them after planting to ensure they survive.

Kessler, Rebecca. “Is Planting Trees as Good for the Earth as Everyone Says?” Mongabay Environmental News, 4 June 2021, news.mongabay.com/2021/05/is-planting-trees-as-good-for-the-earth-as-everyone-says.

Planting the right trees in the right place makes sense in the grand scheme of things because conversely, planting monocultures of non-native species can impact the regulation of water cycles, soil composition, and wildlife habitat. One problem would be solved, but another would be introduced. Undoubtably, after-care is imperative, I can only hope it wasn’t a short term PR stunt.

I think potatoes will have a higher P/E multiple than enterprise software, in 2023

I’m not well-read but my books are well travelled.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but living your life to the fullest does not have to involve hiking.

This site shows the UK’s power generation breakdown. At the time of writing, our 30GW demand is created by natural gas (55%), nuclear (20%), wind (11%) and other (14%). Sustainable and clean energy, for all the PR I see, isn’t quite the player I thought it’d be by now.

Though we sometimes focus on the carbon intensity of electricity, what I think might matter more, is the amount of greenhouse gases released to the atmosphere from power generation. 2019 emissions from energy supply was 65.5% lower than they were in 1990.
Source: Department of Energy

Energy itself isn’t evil. It’s necessary…to create food, pump water, generate warmth, charge your phone, play Netflix. Energy security isn’t inherently bad. Sustainable methods are better for many reasons, but its current capacity can’t provide all our energy needs. Much work needs to be done to build out the infrastructure.

I grew up in Central London. Although my travels took me far and wide: The Canadian Lakes, Chernobyl, Tianjin, Eldoret etc., I love living in Central London…

…but I’ve also just escorted a pigeon off the metropolitan line.