by Aseem Gupta | May 31, 2026 | Economics, Markets & Money
Rome did not collapse because one thing went wrong. That is what makes its story so unsettling. The Roman Empire was not a fragile state waiting for one bad emperor, one barbarian invasion, or one financial mistake to bring it down. It was one of the most durable...
by Aseem Gupta | May 28, 2026 | Business, Innovation & Industry
An MBA can sound more mysterious than it really is. People talk about it as if business school teaches some secret language of power: strategy, finance, marketing, leadership, valuation, competitive advantage, operations, organizational behavior, corporate governance,...
by Aseem Gupta | May 24, 2026 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Andy Weir’s Artemis, published in November 2017, is a science-fiction crime thriller set in humanity’s first permanent city on the Moon. Its protagonist, Jasmine “Jazz” Bashara, is a brilliant but financially struggling young woman who works as a porter,...
by Aseem Gupta | May 20, 2026 | Urban Planning & the Built Environment
The Housing Crisis Is Not A Mystery Anymore Everyone knows housing is too expensive. That is not the mystery. The mystery is why so many rich, educated, well-governed cities keep producing the same outcome: homes that ordinary workers cannot afford, rents that eat up...
by Aseem Gupta | May 10, 2026 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman is the fifth novel in the Captain Underpants series, and Scholastic’s official listing for the fifth Captain Underpants novel places it squarely within the series’ familiar mixture of school...
