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Category: The Whistle Library
Brands’ Connections with Companies Explained
Having written and shared my thoughts on several brands and companies on my blog for many years, and having embarked on a more focused Brandology exercise this year, I thought it’s perhaps time to share my thoughts on how brands are actually connected with companies and explain my thinking a little more. Brands and companies… Continue reading Brands’ Connections with Companies Explained
Imagining the AI Economy
“Open AI’s definition of AGI (artificial general intelligence): Highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.” “Computer science and AI community are gripped by an ideological vision that places AGI, meaning machines, that exceed all human capabilities, as its highest possible pursuit.” The statements above are from a research paper/essay by MIT… Continue reading Imagining the AI Economy
Protected: July Jaunt at The Whistle Library
Protected: June… No Change in Tune
Civilisation and Egypt as a Modern State
Among the many books I presented my aged father for his 93rd birthday last year, was one by Nobel Prize winning Egyptian novelist, Naguib Mahfouz. Titled The Meaning of Civilisation, it is a compilation of his newspaper articles for Al Ahram and is the second volume in what was originally a 3-volume book in Arabic.… Continue reading Civilisation and Egypt as a Modern State
Protected: Reading in Times of Uncertainty
Indian Philosophy a Compendium of Indian Thought
A couple of months ago, I happened to chance upon Indian Philosophy by Dr. S Radhakrishnan, a two-volume edition published by OUP in India. I was actually browsing on Amazon India searching for The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell which I wished to re-read and add to my now-depleted library of books thanks… Continue reading Indian Philosophy a Compendium of Indian Thought
On the Unmoored Writing of WG Sebald
Just finished reading a couple of books by WG Sebald that I presented my aged father for his 93rd birthday last year. Dad didn’t think much of them; in fact, he said they were boring and I am not sure he even read the second book fully. Oh, too bad, I thought and decided to… Continue reading On the Unmoored Writing of WG Sebald










