Business & Career

Even Michelangelo, after painting the Sistine Chapel, felt the jaded grind of work he didn’t want to do. How can we stop losing sight of our work’s purpose?

Paul Graham’s viral ‘Founder Mode’ advice sounds brilliant until you try it at scale and realize it creates the exact micromanagement problem he warns against. What’s the real solution?

My team decided to do a meetings purge this week. We went on a rampage, cancelling hours of recurring meetings from our calendars. It felt great. It also got me thinking: Why do we hate our meetings so much? Why do we bemoan the fact that we don’t have time for lunch, because we have

I’ll always remember the moment when I decided that I wanted to jump to the tech industry. It was 2015, and Twitter had invited us, as clients, to their new Singapore office on Cecil Street. It was filled with colourful lamps and beanbags and Peranakan tiles. It might have looked conventional by today’s standards, but

The person who writes down the thing has tremendous power. One of the ways you find the up-and-comers at a tech company is just like, “Okay who wrote down the plan?”That doesn’t mean that they came up with everything, that doesn’t mean that they had all the ideas, but they actually have the energy and

“You need to write in order to think well.” Paul Graham Writing is often the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about. Shane Parrish Whenever people find out that I run a blog, their first response is usually, “Blogs still exist?!” After all, writing seems like a

I teared up the first time I walked into the Sistine Chapel. Of course, I’d seen pictures of it online, but seeing the real thing was something else. There was something about the way the frescoes were painted, the sheer scale of it, and how everything worked together that was at once overwhelming and beautiful.

Last week, a senior executive in my company did a session on Having Effective One-To-Ones. It sounds like a really simple topic, but I walked away from it feeling like I learnt a bunch of new things. Here are my key takeaways: Shitty One-To-Ones Tell me if any of these scenarios sound familiar to you: