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Opportunities + Edge = Pursue

Opportunities are abound and come to you at different points in your life. While it sounds nice to pursue all the opportunities thrown at you, you should be selective and pursue those opportunities where you have an...

July 6, 2021| CYH Read More

3 kinds of intelligence

(Excerpt from On the Benefits of Curiosity by Ben Carlson) There a few different kinds of intelligence in the world. One kind of intelligence is natural god-given ability. Some people are just born brilliant. Then there...

June 6, 2021| Learning Read More

Adapt and stay alive long enough to get lucky

(Excerpt from A Short History of Money Market Funds by Ben Carlson) Vanguard’s first index fund hit the market in the summer of 1976. It was a complete bust, raising just over $11 million in capital from investors....

June 5, 2021| Adaptability, Founder, Luck Read More

My first post on the decentralised web

I bought a NFT domain name http://alvinchow.crypto and I put out my first post on web3, the decentralised internet. As it is hosted on IPFS and not your regular internet, you have to configure your browser to access it....

May 24, 2021| CYH Read More

I am a Brave Rewards Creator

Most people use Chrome as a web browser. There is an alternative in Brave browser. But why switch? Here are some reasons. First, Brave provides better privacy and blocks user data and behaviour trackers when using the...

May 23, 2021| CYH Read More

Beating the market may not be necessary to reach your financial goals

(Excerpt from How I Invest My Money by Joshua Brown and Brian Portnoy, chapter by Ashby Daniels) I believe the quest to squeak out a few extra basis points of return is a waste of time for the typical Main Street...

May 20, 2021| Investing Read More

Investing is personal

I notice there’s a new theme about personal finance in the US. I caught it from the recent books. First it was Morgan Housel’s The Psychology of Money. Then I was reading Josh Brown’s How I Invest My Money....

May 16, 2021| CYH Read More

The career, business or investment with the best ROI is often dismissed and not well documented

(Excerpt from The Interesting Times 23 Apr 2021 by Taylor Pearson) If you stumble on what looks like a great opportunity that the market is ignoring, 99 times out of 100, the market as a whole knows something you...

April 24, 2021| Adaptability, Availability Bias, Investing, Learning, Stereotype, Strategy Read More

Visionary leadership vs operational leadership

(Excerpt from The Vision Thing by Fred Wilson) … leadership comes in two flavors, visionary leadership and operational leadership. Founders are almost always visionaries (if they aren’t, run in the opposite...

April 22, 2021| Execution, People Read More

New sales should get more commissions than existing ones

(Excerpt from Sales Management Simplified by Mike Weinberg) All sales dollars are not equal … capturing a new dollar of sales is way more valuable than recapturing an existing dollar of sales. Can we agree that...

April 4, 2021| Sales Read More

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