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112: Career 5 - Career Principles after 5 years

Dec 26, 2023 · 3 min read

Docmenting down some core thoughts I’ve had in mind, based on my 6 year working experience so far. I could describe it as something slightly unconventional - most notably by taking early risks and still somehow throwing myself into places out of my comfort zone. Some core lessons learned so far - while I still consider myself at a relatievly “early” stage of my career. 1. Entities can ofer a Spectrum of opportunities and trade offs Working in small companies affords high responsibility and little structure; possibly accelerated in pathway, but at the same time, brutally uncertain.

111: Career 4 - On Identity

Dec 26, 2023 · 3 min read

Indeed, one target in 2023 was to deeply review my personal relationship with my career. Well its the end of 2023 now, and I wouldnt say things are necessary peachy or rosy. The path is still gray: a rollercoaster of opportunity, failures, wishes, effort, lack of outcomes, tangibility, intangibility. And with this it makes it harder to swallow, when one feels to connected to the outcomes and success at work. Even more so - when many of these are not within one’s control.

110: Views on Sustainability in 2023

Dec 26, 2023 · 5 min read

I’ve been into this field for a while. studied in 2016. now worked and wokring for two climate hardware technology startups. Perhaps, for a topic so deeply rooted in noise, change and transition, its worth relooking each year to see how my views have (or have not) changed. What has Maintained An Anti-catastrophic mindset I dont deny the issues, climate change is real, but I continue to maintain an antagonistic view against angsty activitists and doomsayers.

109: Labour 3 - On Missionaries vs Mercenaries

Dec 26, 2023 · 4 min read

The duality of men There are many things on a spectrum, but there are a few which, in my mental model lies reasonably separate. One such topic is the two types of people who view work in different ways: On one camp, there are those view a job as primarily a money maker or means of survival. It makesa huge amount of sense as this has really been the default for almost all of humanity; and

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.