I took a day trip to Manhattan with my parents in 2008, while I was studying in the US. My mum loves Broadway, so she booked us tickets to watch a matinee. I didn’t have high expectations, since I’d never heard of the show we were watching. I grew even more skeptical when the lights […]
In one of my previous jobs, the thing which I dreaded more than anything in the world was a 2-hour meeting every Monday. In that meeting, the entire department would sit down and painstakingly go through the sales numbers for every single city in our network. City by city, we’d be asked to explain why
“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
How are your 2023 resolutions going so far? There are loads of strategies that you could adopt to hit your goals: But now that we’re two weeks into 2023, some of your especially tricky goals might be starting to feel a little shaky. For example, I had a goal of going to sleep by 10.30pm
The biggest news in the tech world in the past couple of weeks was the release of of OpenAI’s ChatGPT interface. If you haven’t played around with it, you should. It’s a cool experience to see how a machine can immediately spit out a philosophical discourse, a scientific explanation, and even an entire song with
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.
“We are surrounded by knowledge, yet starving for wisdom” Tiago Forte, author of Building A Second Brain Everyone knows that starting a new job is stressful. When I started at my new job two years ago, people would throw decks, templates, SOPs, client intel, and a whole barrage of information at me. It was like
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:
Okay, I admit it: I love The Greatest Showman. Folks are talking about Crazy Rich Asians right now, but my Spotify list is still playing tracks from The Greatest Showman like “Come Alive” and “Rewrite the Stars”. I may or may not have jammed out to them while doing housework on several occasions (To my neighbours:
