A manifesto of sorts…

….. This is a WIP essay….

Hey, hi! 

You know this world is designed in such a remarkable way. The whole idea is to attune our energies and skills to work on what matters to you most. And once on that path, the opportunities, and secrets begin to open on their own. This is what I have realized in all these years of being and experimenting. 

Now the world is a bunch of systems interacting with each other. Systems, some of which are pretty natural in existence, like the weather, or the day to night cycle. And then there are the human-made systems. The market is a core human-made system. The exchange. Exchange of goods and services and then build upon them with a secondary and tertiary layer of other asset and liability classes. These human-made systems have a flow. This flow is determined by the human brain and how human nature behaves. Demand and supply and thus the movement of price directly point to how human brains and thus human nature interacts with the idea of scarcity. Past reference points determine our actions of the future. Thalers, Arielys, and Kahenmans of the modern world have spent a good chunk of their lives trying to solve this riddle of human interaction with the systems and how systems form due to the human condition, which none of us can escape.

Throughout history and philosophy, the question is about the human condition and how humans must interact with the surrounding perimeters. Some focus on stoicism, taking everything as is, or knowing the flow or Dao, while others recognize the mimetic nature of human beings. all these fundamentals led to modern systems being arranged. Network effects trace back to the human need for being 'a bird of a feather' and belonging. In the end, the fundamentals of human existence drive each and everything we see around us, and we just build with that as the basis.

The human mind and how humans interact with the natural and human-generated system have continued to intrigue me all my life. Part of this is the household I grew up in. What can you expect with an economist father and a sociologist/art-oriented mother? The continuous battle of the rational and the irrational. 

Wow, you stayed along for this long. Cool, read on then. 

Now obviously enough, with human nature as the background and these systems being formed, and subsystems, and then overlapping and whatnot, results in a complex system of systems. It is exciting to see how we have built everything relying on everything else and how movement in one system almost directly impacts another. A housing bubble crash in one country will end up sending repercussions to a developing nation of 200 million people on the opposite side of the planet. Oh, the interdependency! How is anyone not excited about this! I am. 

Let's jump into markets, for instance. I have a broad smile as I write this with some good lounge music playing in the background on my Bose speaker, and I am writing this sitting on my reclaimed wood dining table tapping the keys of my MacBook; look at how robust exchange can be. I just created an ambient productive environment that is enabling me. 

This world is nothing but an exchange of goods and services. That is all there is. The exchanges can further develop into complex asset classes, which tend to blow disproportionately, and one wrong move brings everything down. But I am not here to focus on the negatives. These overlapping systems have created a marketplace for everything: ideas, information, tech, commodity, utility, entertainment; what have you? You see how intricate and insanely powerful the human mind is. 

I have decided to make my life about recognizing and getting into the fundamentals of these human systems and at the same time helping build systems that last and constantly evolve for the better. Because without evolution, everything becomes stale, leading to rot, frustration, and immense brokenness. Some day I will pick this to write more. 

But it is hard for me to pick one single direction or industry. You see, I grew up meddling with just about everything. I can tell you how the farmers price their rice crop and how the market pays a premium on older, well-sorted rice than on the fresh crop. I can discuss for hours how social enterprises start with a mission but how the mission is lost because they never adapted. I am curious about design and come up with design experience, whether a home or a consumer tech product. 

Through the years, my interests have ranged from Economics, Finance, Philosophy, Investments, Design, Art, Writing, Films, Future, Physics, Biology, and Human Psychology. And I am just out here building and experimenting one thing at a time. 

So thank you for stopping by, don't be shy to indulge. 

Saqiba