Have you seenThe Life of Pi? The movie came out more than 10 years ago, and it’s one of those stories that leaves its interpretation open to you. It tells the story of Pi Patel, who encounters a storm while sailing on a Japanese freighter ship with several zoo animals onboard. The ship sinks, and […]
Last week, I wrote about how we’re in a crisis of male friendships. Men in our 30s and 40s find it increasingly hard to build close friendships with other men. We might be surrounded by casual friendships, but few of us have guy friends who really have our backs, or who would jump into a
It all started with a podcast. Sometime last year, I was listening to this episode on the Art of Manliness podcast on how adult men find it increasingly hard to make genuine friends. The podcast guest was Billy Baker, the author of We Need To Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends. Baker shared how
A couple of years ago, I set out an ambitious goal to fly the Singapore Airlines Suites. I spent a year reading blogs, optimizing my credit card spend, and researching ways to hack the system. After a lot of effort, I managed to do it. It was an amazing experience, but something felt missing. I’d
I left Singapore to study in the US when I was 21. In my freshman year, I met all sorts of people in my dorm. I was neighbours with a football jock, a math champion, wannabe gangsters, and ambitious pre-meds. They had all sorts of wacky hobbies, from skateboarding to deconstructing Rubiks cubes to swing
For 7 years, I wrote almost every week about “hatching a rich life”. I started with personal finance: Saving, spending and investing, which was perfect for a confused boy going through life milestones and trying to make sense of the whole adulting thing. Then I got bored with personal finance, so I started writing about
Heya! I hope you enjoyed the series about how to get practical advice from the Bible as I did writing it. As you can tell, I’ve been moving away from personal finance towards spirituality in recent months. I still enjoy reading and talking about personal finance, but after 8 years of writing, there’s only so
I attended a negotiation course recently. It was the toughest course I’d ever attended. Here’s some context: The nature of my work is to form partnerships with external companies. Most of my partnerships are pleasant: Both parties are excited to work with each other, and everyone tries their best to make things work. The “negotiations” are easy,
Sometimes, my friends will see an interesting job on LinkedIn and ask me if they should apply for it. When I ask, “Why not?” They’ll say, “Because the JD asks for 5 years of experience, and I only have 3 years”, or “I think I’m not confident enough to take on a management role”, etc.
