Life

I always wanted to quit when I could still win so that I can play football with my little boy

(Extracted from Fat, Happy, And In Over Your Head by Morgan Housel) Marcel Hirscher is the greatest ski racer in history, winning the World Cup Overall title in each of the last eight years. Few of you have heard of...

October 15, 2019| Life Read More

When to use your gut instinct?

(Extracted from James Clear’s 3 ideas, 2 quotes, 1 question (October 10, 2019) Gut reactions are usually very wrong or very right. They tend to be wrong when they are based purely on emotion and in domains where...

October 15, 2019| Bias, Life Read More

Play as many hands as possible, whatever cards you are dealt with

(Extracted from Bloomberg on Bloomberg) Don’t devise a Five-Year Plan or a Great Leap Forward. Central planning didn’t work for Stalin or Mao, and it won’t work for an entrepreneur either. Slavishly follow a...

October 3, 2019| Execution, Life, Optionality, Path Dependence Read More

Crush your enemy completely if you have to

(Extracted from The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli) People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you...

September 30, 2019| Machiavellian Read More

Drown your competitor

(Extracted from The Founder) I want to take the future, I want to win, and you don’t get there by being aw-shucks nice guys sap. There’s no place in business for people like that. Business is war. It’s dog eat...

September 30, 2019| Machiavellian 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

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

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