“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 […]
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
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
For a couple of months last year, my wife and I found ourselves homeless. Let me explain: We had sold off our flat, but our new place wouldn’t be ready for another few months. One option was to rent, but seeing how crazy rents in Singapore were, we asked ourselves: Wouldn’t it be cheaper to
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
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
When I was in Tokyo last month, I walked past a department store near the Shibuya Scramble Square. I stopped and did a double take because I saw this: It was a signboard showing a bunch of luxury brand logos. What struck me was how similar they look. I already have trouble differentiating luxury brands,
We all want more money. But money is often boring, confusing, and sometimes, downright cringy (I’m looking at you, YouTube financial gurus). Researching the right mortgage provider or insurance plan puts you to sleep. And it seems like everyone has a different opinion on where you should put your money: This new technology stock! No,
