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Someone who has been employed for a while is giving you strong evidence of submission.

Companies that provide news and updates as a service stay in business not because they help enrich your knowledge, but because someone is paying them in the hopes that you will act on it.

I conclude. Without a doubt. That the McDonald's double cheeseburger. Is the best cheeseburger in the world.

No more in-person consultations and discussions, no more live demonstrations. Nearly everything is done over Zoom.

Keep telling yourself that you are too good or qualified for any job or you should be getting more credit for your work and you'll also find yourself in a lot of trouble when you get older.

I miss Blatage cafe in Shanghai. It is located in the Pudong new area, approximately 30 minutes by taxi (off-peak) door-to-door from where I usually stay in Shanghai (on the Puxi side). The small cozy cafe is along Binjiang Avenue (滨江大道), twenty minutes by bicycle from Superbrand mall or a 40-minute leisurely walk along the river. This is an extremely therapeutic exercise especially on the spring and autumn weekends. The indoor seating capacity is no more than ten and they

Some of my new year resolves include: Drink less (no more than a glass day). Run a marathon (an offline one). Be selectively ignorant to people, projects and information that drain my energy and time. Remain focused on my personal goals and the big picture. But above it all, stay humble.

“Rome wasn’t built in a day but they were laying bricks every hour.”

Paycheck? What paycheck? We are business owners, we don't draw paychecks.

You'd think that people working in financial services will be more astute in terms of their judgement of public equities - what's undervalued or overvalued. But truth is: we know nothing about how public markets really work.

Sorry, no more spontaneous travels.

Social media allows us to create a version of ourselves that we want to show to the rest of the world.