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
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.
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.
The current state of affairs
Competitive rivalry in the VC world, recession and tech jobs, a banker's pipe dream and how to legitimately lose money.
Be it ever so humble...
When I arrived in Hong Kong in May 2021, I spent over two years of living out of a suitcase in a serviced hotel...
Doing the things that you don't like to do
If you are not careful in protecting your dreams, someone else will show up and make you build their dreams for them.
The good money comes later in life
Once you reach the onset of the forties, it will take just 10 years to recover everything that you had earned in the last 16 years.
Bleak perspectives from an older friend
We are in the early innings of the housing bubble in China, and the balance sheet of the current generation of young Chinese people has basically been destroyed.
Pivot, change, adjust
"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss."
- Eric Roth
An English speaking taxi driver in Shenzhen
If someone older with a mediocre income can learn English as a second language, what excuses do we have for not picking up a new skill?