Not all of us wants to outrun a ghost
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.
The current state of affairs
Competitive rivalry in the VC world, recession and tech jobs, a banker's pipe dream and how to legitimately lose money.
The good money comes later in life
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.
Bleak perspectives from an older friend
We are in the early innings of the housing bubble in China, and the balance sheet of the current generation of young Chinese people has basically been destroyed.
In search of a quaint type of peace
I have never been much of a waterfront-living type of person, but the view of the Victoria harbour can be quite addictive. Quiet mornings...
The things I say and do
Eating hotpot is great even if you are doing it alone.
Lessons on money
Inspired by a tweet that I'd read elsewhere, and so I decided to adapt the content and pen this.
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.
Perspectives
Everyone's perception and threshold of money and risk are different. A thousand dollars are very different to the average person and a milli
The biggest mistake of herd mentality...
So few investors / punters do due diligence on the companies they invest in. Many people jump too quickly into the bandwagon because they...