THINK
GWYN
Thought Artist
And digital nomad
DAY
AUTHOR
@oxbridgethinking
PERSONAL
INTRODUCTION
Arguably, the most successful Counsellor for OxBridge preparation and acceptances in India (exclusively through Rostrum Education in India, UAE and Hong Kong) Gwyn devours books, ideas and current affairs. Ex Head Trader, IQ of 172 - International Relations, Geo-Politics, Finance & Trading, Art and Future Thinking are among his interests.
Though having homes in Tbilisi, Georgia and Ubud, Bali he is usually on the road, listening, talking and advising at least 6 months of the year.
THOUGHT
ARTICLES
The Children of a DeepSeek–Unitree Love Affair
I think the conventional framing of the robotics race may be wrong. The obvious question is whether Unitree can build a better humanoid than Tesla’s Optimus, Figure AI or the machines emerging from other American robotics companies.
From Sparta to Kiev the song remains the same
Why do wars begin? It sounds like one of the simplest questions in history, because wars normally have identifiable beginnings. An army crosses a frontier, a government issues an ultimatum, an alliance is activated or negotiations collapse.
The Fog Machine: The Generals of Wiesbaden
There comes a point in every long war at which the fog of war ceases to provide an adequate explanation for persistent analytical failure. No serious observer should underestimate that fog, particularly in Ukraine, where the battlefield has become simultaneously more visible and less comprehensible than perhaps any previous war.
From Bess to the New “Pirates”
Here We may now be entering an era in which states themselves rediscover why piracy was economically useful. Elizabeth I would have understood the attraction immediately. In the late sixteenth century England
BMI for Robots: It’s the Battery, Stupid.
For more than a century, oil sat at the centre of geopolitics because modern industrial power depended upon concentrated, portable energy. Navies converted from coal to oil, armies mechanised, civilian transport exploded