Career

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.

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.

Lessons on getting educated, unhealthy comparisons and staying humble.

Do not believe anything ever again, time to slow down, and no more executive roles after your fifties.

Herd instinct, selling stories, living by IFRS 16 and learning how to think.

If you are not careful in protecting your dreams, someone else will show up and make you build their dreams for them.

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.

"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss." - Eric Roth

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?

Even seemingly intelligent humans, when desperate, gullible and possibly even bored enough, will believe nearly everything you tell them.