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

Anyone telling you to follow your passion is already rich. No one grows up thinking: "I'm passionate about tax law", but the best tax lawyers fly private jets and have a much broader selection of mates than they deserve.

Education teaches us to be compliant, older people tend to bring up unheathy comparisons, and learning to stay humble.

“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

Observations on the competitive rivalry in the VC world, recession and tech jobs in China, and how to legitimately lose money…

Deriving an accurate discount rate is a fool's errand. Value sits with the beholder of cash, who are you to say otherwise?

SIA ends an interesting chapter of its history with redemption of its last remaining MCBs.

Even seemingly intelligent humans, when desperate, gullible and possibly even bored enough, will believe nearly everything you tell them.

More than just its Canto-pop concerts, Hong Kong needs a “Taylor Swift event” to bring back the buzz and hype to the city.