Most companies worry about cash flow and staying afloat. But while you may not run out of money, you can also die by running out of people.

When people have been brought up accustomed to a lifetime of debt and instalment programs, taking on credit becomes a part of life. Who are you to say otherwise?

Without appropriate human iteration and intervention, we risk creating a knowledge ecosystem that is highly transactional and built on potentially fragile foundations.

When you think of time in countable units, everything suddenly seems finite and few. It makes you also think about how much of your daily life can easily be consumed by simply doing stuff that you don’t like to do, or doing things that disagree with your core values.

Instead of just sacking the lift attendants, we have gone all out to proclaim that the world no longer needs a whole bunch of people sitting in the corners of lifts to operate them.

"Nobody checks on a man to see if he’s okay, they check to see if he is still useful."

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.

"Don’t use a typewriter. The noise will destroy your sense of rhythm, which still needs years of training." - CS Lewis

According to aero-propulsion engineering, most of a plane's fuel is burned when it is taxi-ing and taking off, not when cruising in mid air. Any new venture needs to overcome an initial resistance in order to achieve a breakthrough.

“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 their own pasta, and the Italians have to make their own watches, then people in both countries, arguably, will be a little worse off.” - Howard Marks

When I arrived in Hong Kong in May 2021, I spent over two years of living out of a suitcase in a serviced hotel...

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

If we play our cards well today, Singapore’s equities market might have a fighting chance.

Reflections on money and true wealth.

Singapore Airlines ends an interesting chapter of its history with the redemption of its last remaining mandatory convertible bonds.

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?