learnings

Our lack of understanding in how different countries are being governed are rooted in bias, largely based on what we are familiar with and what we are not.

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

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

Eleven types of soft skills worth nurturing.

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.

Inspired by a tweet that I'd read elsewhere, and so I decided to adapt the content and pen this.

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

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.

“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.