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Entrepreneurs and Investors are polar opposites

I am first an investor and thereafter an entrepreneur. I have met entrepreneurs who became investors after selling away their businesses. Having the experience of both domains, we realised that the desired traits for an...

September 30, 2019| CYH Read More

Bestselling books with fewer words

(Excerpt from Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon) The right constraints can lead to your very best work. My favorite example? Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat with only 236 different words, so his editor bet him he...

September 30, 2019| Via Negativa Read More

Behavior is a function of the Person in their Environment

(Extracted from Atomic Habits by James Clear) People often choose products not because of what they are, but because of where they are. If I walk into the kitchen and see a plate of cookies on the counter, I’ll...

September 27, 2019| Structure drives behaviour Read More

Most people prefer to fail conventionally

“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.” John Maynard Keynes...

September 27, 2019| Life Read More

Facebook disrupted UX design

Facebook is well known for becoming the most important social network in the world. But little did people realise that Facebook has disrupted User Experience design when it comes to consuming information, especially on...

September 26, 2019| CYH Read More

Society takes priority over the interests of the individual

(Extracted from Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World) My upbringing in a three-generation family made me an unconscious Confucianist. It seeps into you, the...

September 24, 2019| Life Read More

Leadership is about genuinely having people’s interest at heart

(Extracted from Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World) When campaigning, no one has to listen to you at all. And when the campaign is over, people have to believe...

September 24, 2019| Life, People Read More

You are what you communicate

(Extracted from Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World) If I had not been able to reduce complex ideas into simple words and project them vividly for mass...

September 24, 2019| Life, Sales Read More

Don’t let foolish words affect you

(Extracted from Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World) I do not take anything all that seriously. If I did, I would be quite a sick man. A number of foolish things...

September 24, 2019| Life Read More

Don’t act smart in the markets

(Excerpt from The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham) The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor with...

September 23, 2019| Fallibility, Investing, Overconfidence Bias, Randomness Read More

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