When the CEO wins the race even before it begins! A thriller and a peeved commentary on America’s insane pay gap.

Posted: 01-Mar-2026

Jean-Cédric Michel’s thriller novel The Robin Hood Formula takes aim at one of the most mind-boggling aspects of modern America: the vast and widening gulf between executive compensation and the wages of ordinary workers. Framed around the startling statistic that a CEO may earn up to 6500 times the salary of an average employee, the book uses story as a medium for moral interrogation as much as for entertainment. The story follows a group of gifted friends from USA’s Ivy League institutions who turn furious when they recognize the depth of this insanely outrageous and cruel economic gap. They form a team and come together to devise a solution to address it. They know that when it’s time to deploy their solution, they must fight against and prevail a last battle with the powerful, deeply entrenched nexus between dirt-rich corporations and the heavyweights of America’s capitalist government, who would swiftly and effortlessly crush any remedial effort they find! Realizing that sagacity, not force, will be necessary to win the last step against the nexus, they devise a modern Robin Hood strategy to reclaim the unfairly gained wealth held by corporations and redistribute it to the workforce that was cheated. Like a basketball player intending to shoot, they skillfully dribble past the enemy's defense until they are at shooting distance, and then successfully shoot the ball it into the basket above. However, victory isn't free and they suffer significant losses at the hand of the enemy before they finally prevailing. Proceed to the review now?

IT Security—a paradigm shift in the offing—ringing in AI governed/powered IAM 3.0; ringing out IAM 2.0!

Posted: 02-Jan-2026

IT security's identity and access management function (IAM) will soon transition from version 2.0 to 3.0 because version 2.0 cannot adequately handle the complexities of the current user space, which has grown rapidly since its launch nearly a decade ago.

Today’s users include users beyond just humans, for whom IAM 2.0 was designed. Today’s user space is flooded with non-human identities (NHIs) that vastly outnumber humans—APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) that facilitate transactions, RPA bots, AI agents, etc. Fraudsters presently prefer to route their attacks through the NHIs. Hence the need for an IAM framework that provides continuous, dynamic, and real-time authentication of every user.

Enter AI-powered IAM 3.0 which offers highly granular control of credentials and continuous measurement of trust.

To understand the inadequacy of IAM 2.0, and the sophisticated features of IAM 3.0, read this book!

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Demystifying state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI): a primer by renowned expert James Wang

Posted: 30-Oct-2025

Beneficial or harmful? How do you regard AI?

Do you worry about how AI will change our lives because of its revolutionary potential, yet fumble with hearsay and the misinformation gained from science fiction and the movies?

In that case, you need to read this book.

Written by James Wang, a renowned AI expert, researcher, and activist, you will gain authoritative info/insights about AI from it.

And when your AI "darkness" turns to light, you’ll make out fact from fiction, reality from myth... and lay all your fears at rest! Plus, learn the trustworthy, beneficial applications of AI.

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If you haven’t realized it yet, time is our most precious personal asset because it’s the only one that’s limited. Ensure you spend it well, making time to do what you enjoy most before it’s gone forever!

Posted: 21-Jul-2025

Among money, property, goods, and time, which do you consider is life’s most precious asset, and why? If you ponder it for a while, you’ll realize it is time because it’s time to live that’s limited, while (depending on your fortunes), you may own more or less of the others in the future. And in passing, suppose you had tons of the others, but no time to enjoy them? Wouldn’t that be tragic?

If you haven’t already, you need to sit down quietly and ask yourself questions like “Do I get quality sleep?”; “Sufficient time to spend on family, kids, and relationships?”; “Time for entertainment and exercise?”; “Time for planning finances and savings?”; “Time for quality vacations?”; “A plan (you really believe will work) for items on your bucket list?”, and similar ones.

If your answer is “No,” to any of the above, you really have a problem that you may want to fix immediately, lest life’s dreams slip out of your hands… forever! And you die unfulfilled.

You cannot manufacture time, but you can surely free up and reassign the time you spend on routine tasks like paying bills, home cleaning and maintenance, searching for jobs, etc. that don’t necessarily have to be done by you (i.e. somebody or something else can do it for you) and automating them.

Shall we see how we can up the quality of life by embracing automation (and end the drudgery of life)?

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