MICROWAVE BANKING THE 10-SECOND PROPERTY DEAL Programmable Money, Smart Contracts , and the Death of "Slow" Trust By  Arindam Bose ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ The Instant Gratification Trap I still remember my parents' flat purchase in 2003. The entire process felt like a pilgrimage. My father sat with the lawyer for three separate meetings, each lasting hours, as they traced the title chain backward through six previous owners. The bank took eleven days to issue the NOC after "processing." The escrow agent —a chain-smoking man named Sharma-ji who worked out of a cramped office near the sub-registrar's building—kept calling my father to "just confirm one more time" about the builder's previous projects. It was tedious. It was inefficient. My father complained constantly. But Sharma-ji had seen things. He could smell a bad deal the way a sommelier detects corked wine. Once, he delayed a closing by four days becau...

  The Compute Corridor When Blackwell Density Rewrites FSI By  Arindam Bose Curious observer of where silicon density, sovereign policy, and Indian real estate economics collide ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ Every Tuesday, I Try to Write About Something Safe Every Tuesday, when I sit down to write about construction and technology, I make myself a promise: "This week, Arindam… keep it simple. Something solid. Something that doesn't spiral." And every Tuesday, without fail, that promise collapses. Last week it was nuclear reactors powering data centers. Before that, walls that store cooling like batteries. Before that, buildings that program themselves to respond to monsoons. This week, I thought I'd finally picked something grounded. Office buildings. Just real estate. Floor plates. Lobbies. FSI calculations . How complicated could office buildings be? But within minutes, I was staring at something that shouldn't exist: Buildings wher...