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People generally don’t like to be told what to do because it makes them feel like they are not in control. Instead of free will, they feel like they have been given no choice even though they might have been happy to go along.

It can be difficult to call a rented place home, especially if you do not have long term visibility of staying in that city. This uncertainty leads to a great deal of inertia when it comes to upgrading your living conditions.

Without connecting the numbers to a story, projecting cash flows simply becomes an emotionless exercise of numbers.

The last couple of weeks have been incredibly exciting for Singapore: SuperReturn Asia, DealStreetAsia's PE/VC event, the Milken Asia Summit, Forbes CEO conference and the F1. Visitors getting into Singapore today are neither required to serve any quarantine nor wear masks in public. Everything feels like it's been reverted back to 2019 - big MICE events, face-to-face meetings, public gatherings, etc. It almost feels surreal. Except that I am not in Singapore. Envious onlooke

So, none of this makes sense anymore. For a long time, offshore financing - which was predominantly priced off the LIBOR or overnight...

If both sides are motivated to get the deal done, it will be done.

Eleven types of soft skills worth nurturing.

"Invest always - and above all - in people Better to give talented (if unproven) people a chance, and endure a few disappointments along the way, than to not believe in people."

I can do calls in private, talk as loud as I want and frivolously use the bigger table space and cabinets for stashing paperwork. But it takes some getting used to.

If the central banks got it wrong on monetary policy, can we also assume that the valuation models that we have done and relied on for the last two decades are also flawed?