Not all of us wants to outrun a ghost
When you have been brought up most of your life learning how to game the system, the metric for success becomes defined as beating someone rather than curating the life you actually want.
How the good stuff gets killed
"Don’t use a typewriter. The noise will destroy your sense of rhythm, which still needs years of training."
- CS Lewis
When you think about it
No one grows up thinking: "I'm passionate about tax law", but the best tax lawyers fly private jets and have a much broader selection of mates than they deserve.
Finding the escape velocity
Every new venture has to overcome an initial resistance to achieve a breakthrough.
Shortfalls of conventional wisdom
Lessons on getting educated, unhealthy comparisons and staying humble.
A good day to take a walk.
“The good news is that the Italians make the pasta and the Swiss make the watches. But if we stop world trade and the Swiss have to make their own pasta and the Italians have to make their own watches, the world will probably... maybe arguably, people in both countries will be a little worse off.” - Howard Marks [1]
Read and heard recently
A few hours of distraction every day is the most common recipe of an average life. Cut the noise and get things done.
Reality and limitations
Do not believe anything ever again, time to slow down, and no more executive roles after your fifties.
Random lunar new year reflections
Herd instinct, selling stories, living by IFRS 16 and learning how to think.
Seen and heard
You could be professionally correct, but being correct does not mean that it is the right thing to do.