Jun 24, 2022Lifting shadows for our data freedomWhy our data ecosystem is broken and how we can do better I’m loving how the latest round up from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver feels very much like the syllabus of any tech + policy coursework. Earlier in April…Data Privacy4 min readData Privacy4 min read
Mar 6, 2022The War in Ukraine and a courageous reminder to imagine better futuresDate night with my boo this week included watching this incredible panel of experts — historians Timothy Synder and Yuval Noah Harari, together with journalist Anne Applebaum — who helped to provide context and unpack the war in Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCjBki16zl0 It was a powerful conversation — a reminder to challenge…2 min read2 min read
Dec 7, 2021The evolution of self and how to generate greater freedomKegan and Lahey (2009) wrote that “the leader of today may need to be a person who is making meaning with a self-transforming mind.”[1] This semester has been an introspection of where my meaning making comes from — how much of my socialization has informed the way I construe the…6 min read6 min read
Jul 31, 2021WOW — the wonder of being humanA book review to find my spark Some books create magical fantasy worlds that readers are instantly ferried away to escape from the harsh reality of this world, but not this book. No, I’m not talking about a work of fiction. Rather, it is a work of cold, hard science…5 min read5 min read
Jul 7, 2021The open banking conundrum in Southeast AsiaChallenges in building public infrastructure with private sector incentives Open banking ushers in the promise of a new banking age. Premised on the notion that customers have control over their data, open banking enables data sharing based on customer consent, and unlocks new use cases around a wider range of…Open Banking3 min readOpen Banking3 min read
May 6, 2021Future of capital market regulationDisruptions in technology offers new ways to rethink finance and the systems that underpin capital markets. Hence, forward-thinking reforms will have to 1. Ensure regulatory clarity within the burgeoning crypto/ decentralized- finance space. Although comparatively speaking the cryptocurrency market is a fraction of the US capital market ($2 trillion compared…2 min read2 min read
May 5, 2021Central banks of the futureAs myriad aspects of our daily lives move from the analogue to the digital world, it is inevitable that our experience with money will also be transformed. Data has shown that cash as a percentage of the average US consumer’s total payments declining from 40% in 2009 to 30% in…Digital Currency2 min readDigital Currency2 min read
May 4, 2021Should machines be capable of having moral status?As science and technology progresses, intelligence may no longer be a distinctly human trait. The release of natural language processor GPT-3 by OpenAI in 2020 was a revolutionary breakthrough in the field of applied AI research. Resembling the neural network inside the human brain, GPT-3 is the largest AI model…Artificial Intelligence4 min readArtificial Intelligence4 min read
May 4, 2021How technology influences the way we view man, nature, society as standing reserveWhat is the relationship that man enacts on the world through means of technology? How does the essence of technology influence the way we experience the world? These are questions that Heidegger invites us to ponder. A key tenet of Heidegger’s writing is this notion that the essence of technology…Philosophy4 min readPhilosophy4 min read
May 3, 2021Rethinking (neoliberal) financial inclusion mandateIn this essay, I aim to explore the background conceptions behind the universal mandate of economic progress and market development as it relates to the global financial inclusion mandate. What drives the rhetoric behind the primacy of markets? …Capitalism5 min readCapitalism5 min read
