Are You Busy?
Here is why it is important to be busy. And why what keeps us busy should at times be pointless.
Work and Life, Corporate Life
Work and Life
My thoughts on corporate life, work-life balance or the lack thereof and so on.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Quant Developers
The product-centric view of the quantitative developer suits their work paradigm.
Humor, Work and Life
Replace Halogen with LED
On how I decided to go green. And why I needed antibiotics. And what the Hindi word nasook means.
Quantitative Finance, Books, Corporate Life
Quants
The perspective of the mathematical wizards of the bank, and why they often appear far-removed from the rest of the bank.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Trade Perspectives
In this last section of this post series on how a bank works, we will see how the quants, quantitative developers and the middle office professionals (and the rest) see trades and trading activity.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Summary — Life of a Trade
Quick summary of the section on the trade lifecycle, before we move on to the final section on the perspectives held dear by various business units in a bank.
Creative, Work and Life, Parenting
How to Take Beautiful Pictures
How to make use of the dreaded backlight and take beautiful portraits and nature shots.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Termination
On the termination phase of the life of a trade.
Humor, Malayalam, Corporate Life, Life and Death
Retirement — a Wife’s View
Work and life, retirement and eulogy — through allegories.
Quantitative Finance, Books, Corporate Life
Validation and Processing
Once a trade is booked into the trading platform, it is monitored and processed on a daily basis. Here is a short summary of such activities.
Life and Death, Philosophy, Physics
Why Do We Drink?
What is the relation between alcohol and superheroes? Here are some philosophical reasons to get drunk.