If you are somehow feeling helpless, uneasy and incomplete about the concluding sentiment in Netflix’s Social Dilemma, you should seriously watch this 2:30 hour condensed lecture on Einstein’s special relative theory for every layman! Especially the last third of the lecture when Professor Greene explained how Team Barn and Team Pole resolved how their own… Continue reading The social dilemma and the choices we have
About six years ago, when I was about to enter my last year at university, over a casual lunch, someone in his thirties told me that: one of the things that I felt glad for doing in my early twenties is that: I worked really hard and spent really smart so that I could buy… Continue reading On discipline, competition and insecurity
Note from 2020: This piece was originally written in 2012 during one of my last trips back to Singapore to close my chapter there before relocating back to Hanoi to work at McKinsey & Company as a Research Analyst for about 2,5 years. I have been indifferent until the taxi driver who picked me up… Continue reading Been there, left, and back.
Note from 2020: I was fortunate to be living in Singapore during their historic general election in 2011 – the one when the ruling party PAP was most contested and which marked the first time an opposition party won a GRC (Group Representation Constituency) since Singapore’s independence. Nicole Seah was the youngest candidate in GE2011… Continue reading Singapore GE 2011 – Some thoughts from an outsider
