Write Smart, Not Just Hard. Optimize How You Write Your Articles. — It is said that to be successful on any platform — Medium/ YouTube/Twitter/ LinkedIn, all you need to do is publish/ post consistently. Yes, at least once a day. For those starting out, once a day seems immensely daunting and effortful, but fortune favours those that outlast the rest. If…

Don’t Lose Out. The Most Underrated Skill — Learning and Growing Through Self-Reflection. — Entrepreneurs typically make the mistake of just being workhorses, fighting fires every day and making sure they’re at peak productive performance. Getting through to-do lists that never seem to end, sitting through back to back meetings and building the business is a full-time job. It never seems like we have…

Going From 10 Instagram Stories a Day to None — Confessions of an Ex-social Media Addict — In 2020, when Singapore was in lockdown, I remember having a fond conversation with a good friend of mine. I noticed that I stopped receiving his constant stream of Instagram Stories — Books he was reading, Clubhouse hangouts he was having and his delicious goodies from his sudden baking obsession. …

Running a Business Isn’t Easy, Fall 2 Times, Get Up 3 — Running a business isn’t easy, fall 2 times, get up 3 Most of us don’t have the benefit of being 3-time entrepreneurs. We started from scratch and this is our first foray stepping into the world of business. No matter the stage you’re at now, running a business is tough. We’ve made mistakes and cried over spilt milk, but we’re still…

Learning More About Myself, One Trip at A Time — I’ve always struggled to put words to this experience, it inspired, it refreshed, and recentered me in ways I never knew possible. “Cover the earth, before it covers you.” — Dagobert D. Runes In 2019, before the madness that was covid, I spent 6 months backpacking Europe. …

Track > Measure > Iterate — I’ve mentioned a couple of times that I obsess over improving my life and getting better at everything. I’m a strong believer that to get better at anything we need to follow the simple formula of track > measure > iterate. Tracking would mean observation of goals and success metrics…

Are You Making a Living or Making A Dying? — This week marks my 1st year in my current company. Which also prompted me to think about how stress levels seemed to have risen for me and my colleagues. We all talk about how we feel we’ve aged 10 years since starting work.

Hack Everything, Especially Your Habits — I’m big on optimising my life and getting 1% better every day. If we are the average of the 5 people we spend the most time with, we’re probably the average of the 5 habits we spend most of our time on. Sorry, sleeping doesn’t count. How It Started vs How It’s Going My biggest achievement in…

Stop Feeling That You Aren’t Good Enough — I’m a strong believer that humans don’t need much to be happy. But it’s not that easy when we’re surrounded by everyone else doing much better. One of the biggest contributors to unhappiness is the tyranny of constant comparison. There is healthy competition and unhealthy obsessions. Here are some ways…