The third day of the new year
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
Happy new year of 2021
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.
I am just a brick-layer.
“Rome wasn’t built in a day but they were laying bricks every hour.”
We are business owners.
Paycheck? What paycheck? We are business owners, we don't draw paychecks.
Learnings and learnings.
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.
Goodbye open-ended itineraries
Sorry, no more spontaneous travels.
Distorted reality
Social media allows us to create a version of ourselves that we want to show to the rest of the world.
Can't put lipstick on a pig
"People should be lining up for this! Why aren’t investors buying our business?"
The REAL social dilemma
In 1990, a psychologist quoted in the New York Times reported that people “turn on the TV when they feel sad, lonely, upset or worried,...
Should have seen it coming...
Webinars and Zoom calls have now become a defacto way of life. Therefore, it was no surprise that Zoom launched its events marketplace last