“What does it profit a man if he gains the entire world and loses his soul?” Matthew 16:26 Last night, after an exhausting day at work, I went out for dinner with my wife. But my brain was so tired that it was difficult to hold a proper conversation. At one point, she asked me […]
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
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.
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,
