Keris & Silicon

In Episode 2 of Keris & Silicon, Shahril is joined by Balaji Srinivasan, technologist, investor, author of The Network State, and founder of Network School. Balaji makes his case that the West is in decline while the East rises, and that the internet is the successor to American empire. Shahril pushes back, interrogating whether the network state thesis prematurely strips sovereignty away from...

In this debut episode of Keris & Silicon, Khailee Ng of 500 Global joins Shahril Hamdan to unpack why AI adoption in this region is slower than it should be, what separates users from builders, and why the real threat isn’t AI taking your job. It’s being too comfortable to care. From Afghan refugees building gold trading bots to soup kitchen founders automating grant applications, this convers...