# ordinary man (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ordinary man. Page: Feed: --- ## [From Vault to Voice: The Making of a National Treasure](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/from-vault-to-voice-the-making-of) _2026-08-23 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ David Attenborough turned 100, and Britain rightly crowned him a national treasure. Where the word came from, whom it crowns, and whom it destroys. ## [Three Wishes at Midnight: India Turns Seventy-Nine](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/three-wishes-at-midnight-india-79) _2026-08-16 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ India's 79th Independence Day: two nations born a day apart, three decisions that split them, and three wishes for the 80th year. ## [Sirens, Ships and Sovereign Wealth](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/sovereign-wealth-funds-sirens-ships) _2026-08-09 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ Homer’s oldest lesson in self-restraint, watched on a very big screen in Singapore, and the machine nations have built to actually practise it. ## [No Vacancy: How the Patels Bought the American Motel](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/no-vacancy-the-patel-motel-empire) _2026-08-01 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ They own 60 per cent of America's hotels, employ more people than FedEx and Home Depot combined, and could not eat, drink, or check into a single room of the empire they built. ## [Money as a Third Culture Kid](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/money-as-a-third-culture-kid) _2026-07-27 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ Wealth management’s quiet confession: what asset managers buy with their own money, and why fear does not scale with net worth. ## [Farewell, My Forties.](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/farewell-my-forties) _2026-07-18 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ A valediction in verse, written at the border between decades. ## [The Young Old Man: A Letter to My Daughters on Turning Fifty](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/letter-to-my-daughters-turning-50) _2026-07-11 · A Man Who Blogs_ Turning 50, Victor Hugo’s border crossing, the arc of a life, and the sunscreen in between. ## [The Republic of Invention: America at 250 and the Five Conditions Behind Everything It Made](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/the-republic-of-invention-america) _2026-07-04 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ America's masterpiece was never on the list of things it invented. At 250, the only question is whether it can keep the conditions that made the list ## [Daughter of the Sky](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/greek-and-indian-gods-shared-roots) _2026-06-27 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ The gods of ancient Greece and India turn out to be one family, separated by five thousand years. A child’s remark in an Athens museum, a father’s last rites, and everything two civilisations shared. ## [Rules for an (Extra)Ordinary Man](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/rules-for-an-extraordinary-man) _2026-06-21 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ A Father's Day tribute to my father, Ajit Narain: what an ordinary man taught me about cricket, character, and never once swinging for the boundary. ## [Stocks ranked by what execs say (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/htXZD1oWDVN9) _2026-06-21 · **Sponsored**_ Evidence-backed watchlists from earnings calls and filings, cited to real transcripts—not guesses. ## [Gods on Loan: The Tourism Fortune India Squandered and Thailand Treasured](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/india-tourism-gap-thailand) _2026-06-14 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ India’s tourism punches far below its weight while Thailand monetises the gods, epics and serenity that India itself once exported. ## [Secrets, Sensors & Settlement](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/secrets-sensors-and-settlement) _2026-06-07 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ Prediction markets stopped being a politics business. Eighty per cent of the volume is sport, and ICE just paid $1.6bn to buy the sensor, not the casino. (📚 ~13 min read) ## [This Month I Discovered I Was Richer Than I Thought I Was](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-friendship) _2026-05-31 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ What thirty years of friendship looks like at 35,000 feet ## [Watch This Space: A Patent Lapses, a Queue Forms, the Wrist Reclaims Its Silence.](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/royal-pop-audemars-piguet-swatch-wrist-revolution) _2026-05-24 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ How the Royal Pop frenzy, a lapsed patent, and a quieter wearable revolution rearranged the wrist in one weekend. ## [Below the Boulevard: The Subway and the Shape of the Modern City](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/below-the-boulevard-subway) _2026-05-17 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ What ten days of riding the Tube and the New York Subway reveal about the most civilising piece of infrastructure any city ever builds. ## [A2Z Fintech #40 by AMWB: Machines, Mandates & Money.](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/a2z-fintech-40-machines-mandates-money) _2026-05-13 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ Agentic commerce shipped while the world was still arguing about the buy button. The 4 protocols, the 4 horsemen, and why China already won the first lap. Part 2 of 2 Stripe special. (📚 ~12 min) ## [The Brahmin in the Sky: The Last Caste System That Works](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/brahmin-in-the-sky) _2026-05-10 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ Singapore Airlines built the most psychologically sophisticated caste system in the modern world. Last week, my five-year membership ends. ## [A2Z Fintech #39 by AMWB: Lines, Lobby & Launch.](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/a2z-fintech-39-by-amwb-lines-lobby) _2026-05-06 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ From seven lines of code to indexing the economy. Inside Stripe's 288 launches at Sessions 2026 — Tempo, Bridge, Privy, the Agentic Commerce Suite, the Machine Payments Protocol — and the structural argument that Stripe is no longer a payments processor. It is the next Google. ## [Life, Love & Liquidity at Fifty](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/the-last-of-the-brown-sahibs) _2026-05-03 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ Two boys from Calcutta, thirty years on: one builds systems, one makes fun of them ## [From Bhai-Bhai to Buy-Buy](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/from-bhai-bhai-to-buy-buy) _2026-04-26 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ India's move from non-alignment to multi-alignment. The first was a principle dressed as a strategy. The second is a strategy dressed as a principle. ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sGVbtIE6X9wk) _2026-04-26 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [A2Z Fintech #38 by AMWB: Predictions, Podium & Pie.](https://amanwhoblogs.substack.com/p/a2z-fintech-38-by-amwb-predictions) _2026-04-21 · Aman Narain · A Man Who Blogs_ The Q1 2026 scorecard: four wins, three close calls, one spectacular flop. Plus four new predictions for the rest of the season. (📚 ~11 min read)