Hacking Poverty: The New Blog

I’ve been getting lots of emails and direct tweets from people asking why I’ve been uncharacteristically quiet for some time now. And I’ve not answered a single one of these mails and tweets for the same reason why I’ve been quiet. To all of you who wrote and never got a response from me, and to all of you who came here and didn’t find anything new, sorry to disappoint.

No I’m not sick or “busy” or anything of the sort. But I really needed a little time for myself. I needed time for some deep introspection… time to do some serious digging into the SELF, to ponder over where I’m headed, to assess my current plan to get there (and why it doesn’t seem to be getting me there)… and to uncover the old and dusty path one more time.

And I’m glad to report that this was time well spent. Perhaps I’m fortunate enough to have known what I really want to live for very early on. And after all these years, every single “self discovery” exercise takes me back to the very same place. The real difficult thing for me has always been having the discipline to stay on track.

But how do you stay on track, when you don’t know where your next meal is coming from? When you’ve got rising medical bills? And when you’ve got ageing parents whose only retirement plan is their investment in your education? That’s a big trap, I’d say. And no, I’ve not had any “ahaah” moment, yet. I’m simply going to trust that, somehow, the dots will connect somewhere in the future.

And here is to hope that poor Stephen & Agartha will be with us for a little longer.

From this point on, this blog, the only thing I can trully call my own, will be chronicling that journey. Not much is changing here, except there will be a) less and less stories about my cat spilling milk on my dog; b) more and more in-depth articles on the subjects of technology, entrepreneurship and development; and c) more frequent and regular updates.

Thank you all for your support and encouragement throughout these hard times.