Data Analytics · 22 August 2026
The Data Analyst Field Manual
From a blank spreadsheet to decisions people can trust.
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How Much Coffee Do Maldivians Drink in a Year?
There is no national coffee counter. So we built one.
Time Management · 22 August 2026
How I’m Learning to Fit a Whole Life Into One Day
The answer is not squeezing harder. It is giving every important part of life a home.
Policing · 22 August 2026
What If the IPS Probationers Course Were Held in the Maldives?
A detailed 104-week redesign of India’s IPS probationer training for Maldivian geography, law, communities, maritime policing and police leadership.
Doing Cool Shit · 20 August 2026
Doing Cool Shit #001: I’m Walking from the Edge of Hithadhoo to Gan Airport
On 21 August 2026, I’m walking from the last walkable edge of Hithadhoo’s road to the last walkable edge at Gan Airport—with water, two devices and no grand reason beyond wanting to do something cool.
Doing Cool Shit · 20 August 2026
Doing Cool Shit #002: I’m Learning to Speak
From 21–27 August 2026, I’m spending seven days practising how to speak, tell stories and give speeches—using grit, deliberate practice and exercises drawn from communication science.
Doing Cool Shit · 20 August 2026
Doing Cool Shit #003: I Let AI Choose This One
For the third experiment, I gave away the decision. AI had to design something local, safe, inexpensive, measurable and uncomfortable enough to create a story.
Microsoft Excel · 20 August 2026
Excel Data Analysis 101: The Complete Course from Cells to Decisions
A comprehensive, exercise-led Microsoft Excel data analytics course—from workbook fundamentals through formulas, statistics, dashboards, Power Query, Power Pivot and a final portfolio project.
Artificial Intelligence · 20 August 2026
How AI Chat Tools Actually Work: A Plain Guide
Tokens, context windows, prompting, markdown, tools, MCP, skills and agents—explained without the jargon.
Work · 20 August 2026
Their Promotion Was Unfair. Can You Still Be Happy for Them?
In a steep hierarchy, one person’s promotion can feel like another person’s disappearance. You can congratulate the person without pretending the ladder was fair.
Professional Development · 17 August 2026
Navigating Professional Life in the Maldives
Governments shift, HODs play musical chairs every two years, and the tea-break grumble club is always recruiting. Here is how to build universal craft, dodge internal politics, and master the art of staying unbothered across 1,192 islands.
Metabolic Health · 17 August 2026
Why a Normal BMI Can Still Mean a Fatty Liver
Your subcutaneous storage tank is smaller than the charts assume. Once it fills, the surplus does not disappear—it moves into the abdomen, the liver and the pancreas.
Psychology · 15 August 2026
Holy Prosociality! The 'Batman Effect' and the Power of Positive Disruption
We do not ignore people in need because we are unkind. We ignore them because our brains are locked in routine. A splash of the unexpected snaps us wide awake.
Leadership · 15 August 2026
The Twenty-Dollar Chief of Staff
Senior work is judgement under compression. A paid seat does not make you smarter. It removes the interruption between a hard question and a finished answer.
Opinion · 15 August 2026
The Quiet Reassurance of the Beat: Why Maldivian Streets Need More Foot Patrols, Not Just Airblade Sweeps
Security in an island nation is not measured by how fast an Airblade or a Mazda cruiser zips past, but by the grounded presence of an officer walking our alleys, greeting shopkeepers, and making the night feel safe.
Education · 14 August 2026
MQA Maldives, Explained: Study Abroad Without Regret
The university brochure is glossy. The agent says ‘internationally recognised’. Your family is discussing deposits. Before anybody transfers one rufiyaa, open the regulator.
Psychology · 14 August 2026
Why Does That Look So Cool?
Cool is not stored inside a pose. Your mind builds it from movement, voice, autonomy, timing, context and apparent control.
Maldives · 12 August 2026
The Opportunities Hiding in Plain Sight in Maldives
A practical field guide to turning overlooked Maldivian skills, public notices, local knowledge, open data and everyday problems into small, testable opportunities—without pretending that every idea guarantees income.
FahiPay · 12 August 2026
One App. Fewer Payment Chores. Why Maldives Should Try FahiPay
The Maldivian wallet turning reloads, bills and everyday payments into a shorter to-do list.
Police College · 11 August 2026
I Am Not Pacing. I Am Optimising.
One official responsibility. One unofficial walking mission. Several pens experiencing a crisis.
Personality · 11 August 2026
What Kind of Island Leader Are You?
Five islands. Twenty honest answers. One useful clue about how you show up when other people need direction.
Maldives · 10 August 2026
Your Flight Is Delayed. The Maldives Is Not Cancelled.
A beautiful, practical rainy-day guide for tourists delayed by weather in the Maldives—with safe airport plans, local experiences and an interactive weather-reroute machine.
24safe detours for a delay, cancellation or rain-locked island day
Technology · 10 August 2026
Telegram vs WhatsApp and Viber: take the 10-minute escape test
Do not switch because somebody shouted ‘Telegram is better’. Make the app prove it—with files, polls, secret chats, a mildly chaotic family group and eight tiny experiments.
Maldives · 10 August 2026
Maldives Is Boring? 72 Things to Do Before You Blame the Whole Country
A funny, practical field guide to 72 things young people can do across Maldivian islands—from free plans tonight to local trips, citizen science, sport, making and volunteering.
72specific plans for an evening, weekend or island adventure
Maldives · 10 August 2026
Tiger Shark vs Triggerfish: Guess Who Starts the Fight in Fuvahmulah
Maldivian researchers recorded a tiny reef fish confronting tiger sharks in Fuvahmulah. Explore the surprising footage, test your prediction and learn what the study does—and does not—prove.
Maldives · 9 August 2026
How to Be a Good Husband in Maldives: Learn to Return After a Fight
A Maldives-specific guide to marriage, conflict, island distance, money, in-laws, fatherhood and faith—grounded in local research and relationship science.
Maldives · 9 August 2026
80% Screened for Depression Symptoms: What an MNU Study Really Found
A new study of 445 Maldives National University undergraduates found high levels of depression, anxiety and stress symptoms. Here is what the numbers mean—and what they do not.
Office · 8 August 2026
The secret life of an almost-empty office
Most of the chairs are vacant. Somehow, the gossip is still fully staffed.
Maldives · 8 August 2026
How Much Does It Take to Live in Malé and the Islands?
See what MVR 8,000, 12,000, 18,000, 25,000 and 35,000 can realistically cover in Greater Malé and across the islands in 2026.
Film · 8 August 2026
Everyone in the office should watch About Time
It looks like a time-travel romance. It is really a gentle warning not to sleepwalk through the good part of your life.
Technology · 8 August 2026
Why does everyone here use Viber?
Everywhere else it's WhatsApp. In the Maldives it isn't. The answer is probably not about the app at all.
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