This piece has been sitting in my head since August and attending Packy McCormick’s workshop helped to form the words to my jumbled thoughts. Packy wrote back in May about this Great Online Game that we play on the Internet. The idea that the lines between work and play are…

It was slightly after 12:30 am when my friend asked me to create a Phantom (wallet to hold Solana: SOL) crypto wallet and join a Discord channel to complete a really simple mission — link my Twitter account + fill up the Google Form of 3 questions (my Discord handle…

We know them as FAANG today. Scott Galloway wrote specifically about them, minus Netflix, a few years back. The hidden DNA of why and how these four companies appeal to our instincts. From an evolutionary psychological perspective, the Four touches appeal to certain areas of the body that trigger our…

One of the most important books that I’ve read that highlights the importance of looking at data and challenge my worldview. Rosling talks about our dramatic instincts that exaggerate and distort what we see as facts and truth. If you are hesitating whether you should read this book, allow this…

As the year draws to an end, I come to sit and think about the events, people, and feelings that gone by too quickly this year. I thought it was oddly appropriate to reflect after reading The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger. Indeed, 2020 has been one hell…

The truth is we all know how to win friends and influence people. We do it all the time, just sub- (or un-) consciously. Dale Carnegie helps us to codify what it is that the people we admire or like are doing. First published in 1936, he wrote about these…

Matthew Walker — a sleep scientist, debunks myths of sleep (and dreams) and explains in various areas and great detail on the neurology and sociology aspects of sleep in this book, Why We Sleep. Hopefully, you will head to bed after reading this piece. Background Before we jump straight into the…

When Michelle Obama visited Singapore last December for ‘An Evening with Michelle Obama’, I remembered taking a screenshot of this quote presented by her through my friend’s Instagram: Becoming is a book where every reader is presented with the opportunity to delve into the deep recesses of Michelle’s thoughts and…

This is the second book I have read from Malcolm Gladwell and each time it is filled with insights that I have never expected myself to glean from pretty standard situations. …