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108: Labour 2: On the Philosophy of Work

Dec 26, 2023 · 4 min read

Housekeeping: Defining “Labour vs Career” This post continues to explore the interelation between the nature of work and human nature at a time when the notion of Work is being questioned. I recognised that I’ve embarked on two separate threads delving into the Philosophy of Work: One labelled “Labour” and one labelled “Career”. As a broad framework, the series on Career will refer to guiding principles and frameworks that have helped me, as an individual assess and determine where to work;

107: Philosophy 4 - On Polymathism

Oct 1, 2023 · 7 min read

Preamble I’ve started to largely take each of these “-isms” continues to be a thematic way to think about matters philosophical. But as I write these “philosophical” posts, I often teeter on the moods of equal part disgust and equal part lascivious joy, for I currently pride myself in the “getting my hands dirty” phase grounded in reality and the world; while at the same time, I simply cannot help myself from digesting my thoughts and dumping these onto an online Canvas.

106: On Chief of Staffs, the art and science

Aug 27, 2023 · 6 min read

It has been quite some time since I’ve been lingering somewhere between a reflective and inspired mood - the sort of mood where writing makes sense on a sunny sunday afternoon, with a cool beverage perched upon a white table in a white-walled cafe. I could wish for a quieter environment, but the ceiling height windows permit a natural light that suffuses the mind with clean thought. To linger and languish is not pleasant, and I feel tense but lucid in events transpired.

105: Artificial Intelligence 1: That Oh, AI's-gonna -takeover-the-world post

Jul 9, 2023 · 5 min read

Seems every blog needs to comment on AI. Well here it goes. I’m not going to go into definitions and the like. This merely puts out a simple take after some passive thinking. Of all the macro trends - I would place AI as something that I am relatively less interested, engaged, informed vis-a-vis the hype in gets. I would go so far to say that hype is negative correlated with my interests.

104: Economics 11: On the Gig Economy and Commoditised work

Jul 8, 2023 · 5 min read

I initially drafted this from a conversation, loosely discussing how the gig economy works in this world (ahh typical casual sunday discussion). Its a new model for labour for sure - something worth looking at. Since then, i’ve noticed that our local Singaporean gig-economy champion got into controvesy (don’t they always) for: i) hiring a member of parliament to (initially) support government relations, and ii) more recently, undergoing a whole bunch of job cuts.

103: Life 5 - On Comfort zones, Coaching and Virtue

Jul 3, 2023 · 3 min read

Sometime, in April 2023 I sit, at a Sue Hsiao Liu Dim sum restaraunt. Comfortably, I am reassured that Alipay could infact work with a foreign card. I sit as a ethnic homogenous but an outsider foreigner, betrayed by the lack of language, in what is technically my ethnic roots (although arguably my ancestors probably didn’t come from Shanghai necessarily). But as I sit, bravely and alone out of my comfort zone - I catch myself often reminding myself of what the discomfort is for, and how being up to a challenge can be managed.

102: Universal Frameworks 3: On Tattoos, and Thinking in cycles and systems

Jul 3, 2023 · 3 min read

As I draw closer towards permanance and consistency, a natural flow towards the rightful or wrongful ossification of my beliefs; while at the same time, forseeing the inevitable curiosity and interest of my peers into the markings of the flesh; How does one think with conviction, to inscribe a concept or symbol onto their inherited birthright? Principally, I feel strongly about two universal frameworks: of Cycles and Systems, though I largely approach this in a scientific and geometric pattern-spotting sorta of way, as opposed to the Buddhist Dharma-esque approach which indeeds captures such thinking too.

101: Philosophy 3 - On Intellectualism

May 14, 2023 · 4 min read

This post and topic of choice sounds so so terribly pretentious, but I hope to absolve this with thoughtful content. Intellect in a time of AI Intelligence and intellectualism is a salient topic today. Though some points of this post was drafted quite some time ago, the recent release of generative AI has spurred concern around job anxiety (once again) - as we question our own roles and relevance (in specific areas).

100: Lifetemplation - on the 14th of May 2023

May 14, 2023 · 4 min read

Wouldja look at that… its the 100th* post milestone. I’ve just recently finished a week of reservist and come down with flu. The heat, humidity and being surrounded by 100 other guys would do that to you. And too often does my busied mind think of mortality when its host is ill. For the first time, my occipital lymph nodes swelled up (back of the head) - and the thought of cancer crept in, abetting the ongoing concerns on existence.

99: Politics 2 - On Extremism, moderation and intuition

Apr 22, 2023 · 3 min read

In my previous post on political structures (it’s been quite some time now), I described a basic framework/spectrum that helped me understand the general overview of such a complex topic. But we live in an age where democracies are still highly relevant and prevalent. Indeed, the Benevelont Dictatorship (ahem, where I’m from) is still technically a democracy. So the next question is that how these political structures survive (or not), as the stability of such structures are subject to the whims of fragmented, disparate constituents.