What do you talk about when you’re with your friends? Work? Kids? Holidays? Investments? Gossip? If you’re like me, 90% of your conversations are around banal topics like these. A couple of months back, I chatted with someone who bought a unit in the same new launch as I did. We had loads in common […]
“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:
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.
2018 was a pretty meh year for investing. Stock markets around the world are in the red for the year. As I’m writing this, the S&P 500 is down 7%, the FTSE is down 12%, and Singapore’s very own STI is down 10%. What do we make of all this? If you were investing in
Everybody loves Christmas. During this time of the year, we stream Love Actually on Netflix, play Leona Lewis’ One More Sleep on repeat, look at the peaceful nativity scene and go, “Aww, that’s nice!” Many people see Christmas as a chance to take a break, feel sentimental for a couple of weeks, and then get back on
