2022 a via negativa year

2022: do it differently. Most resolutions are additive. Instead of I want to do this or that, flip it around and do less undesirables. Be subtractive. Drink or smoke less. Eat less junk food. Reduce the frequency of...

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NFT is crucial to the metaverse

Non-Fungible Token (NFT) boomed in 2021 and sales totalled about $2.5 billion by the first half of this year. The interest in NFT has been increasing and Google Trends showed the search term popularity is at its all...

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Book of the Year 2021

It is time of the year to select the most impactful book to me. Note that I choose the book of the year by the time I read it and not based on when it was published. The key factor in selecting the book lies in its...

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The Creator Economy plays a part in the Great Resignation

The Great Resignation is a term coined to describe the wave of resignations happening in the U.S. and Europe after the Covid pandemic subsides. Those who have managed to have a job during the pandemic would have stayed...

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How your personality affects your investments

1. I was in a panel discussion with Chris Ng and he shared about using the Big Five personality test to help you narrow down the kind of investments you should do. Thought it was interesting to share some details here....

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Volatility cannot be understood until it is felt

No matter how much theories you went through or how much you explain it to yourself, you will never understand what is balancing until you have experienced it on a bike. 2. Likewise, investors will never understand...

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Air Travel Entropy

Most of us have not travelled out of the country after Covid struck. Air travel has not fully recovered its capacity yet, if ever. And now we have to do testing before and after a flight. Air travel is a complex system...

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On Grab and Sea

It was a proud moment for Singapore’s business scene as Grab became the largest company to list via a SPAC merger. 1) While the focus might be on the share price tumbling 21%, it is worthwhile to celebrate this...

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8 years of investor observations

After training and interacting with investors for the past 8 years, here’re some bad world views I have observed. 1) Some don’t want to hear that they can have $x millions if they invest for the next 30 years. They...

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Decentralizing into social classes

Crypto stands on the moral high ground of decentralising the powers from the few. But inadvertently social stratification exists within the crypto community just like the real world – the have’s and the have...

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