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How to be a learning machine in 2020

If you felt you have wasted too much time on entertainment in the last decade, and you want to learn a new skill or deepen your knowledge in a particular area, this might interest you. There are two roles when it comes...

December 31, 2019| CYH Read More

2019

My goal each year is to smash my most well-held idea. So it isn’t about review of successes and failures, but going deeper to identify the wrong perspective I can smash so I can get closer to reality to achieve better...

December 28, 2019| CYH Read More

Book of the Year 2019

I love books. You can tell by the construct of this site. At the end of each year, it is common to see many people share their list of best books for the year. I am going to do the same but the difference is that I’m...

December 28, 2019| CYH Read More

Should you take the offer to sell your business?

(Extracted from FckdEx by Scott Galloway) There was a great deal of discussion on whether to sell. I urged the founders, naturally optimistic about the firm’s prospects, to sell. The difference between $1 million and...

December 27, 2019| Life, Strategy Read More

Time inequality

Financial inequality is obvious. But time inequality is more cunningly obscure. Imagine you buy a place near the edges of Singapore for $250,000 instead of $500,000 in the city fringe. You work in the city and have to...

December 25, 2019| CYH Read More

Be less unlucky since you cannot make yourself luckier

It started with a conversation with Khin Wai. Referring to a set of metrics to analyse SaaS and Fintech companies, he said “even with all these it is also a shot in the dark.” I went on to ask how much of investing...

December 16, 2019| CYH Read More

A vuja de situation at lunch

Today I did something different during lunch – I ordered from a stall that I have never patronised or expect myself to patronise. But I did. To amuse myself further, I noticed the adjacent stall which sells fruits...

December 16, 2019| CYH Read More

Russians are better programmers because they have less computing time

(Extracted from Flash Boys by Michael Lewis) Russians had a reputation for being the best programmers on Wall Street, and Serge thought he knew why: They had been forced to learn to program computers without the luxury...

December 16, 2019| Constraints Read More

True wealth is to do less of a lot of undesirable things

(Excerpt from Antifragile by Nassim Taleb) If true wealth consists in worriless sleeping, clear conscience, reciprocal gratitude, absence of envy, good appetite, muscle strength, physical energy, frequent laughs, no...

December 14, 2019| Via Negativa Read More

Praise kids for their effort, not smarts

(Extracted from Raising the Best Kids You Can by Ben Carlson) In his book, Sapolsky references the work of psychologists Carol Dweck and Claudia Mueller. In the late-1990s, they worked with a classroom of 5th...

December 14, 2019| Life Read More

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