Musings

The reason we work. Learnings from a hearse driver ( read off LinkedIn ). "You could be professionally correct, but being right does not...

Competitive rivalry A lot of professionals in the venture capital and mid-cap private equity space seem to be bad-mouthing each other. I...

When I arrived in Hong Kong in May 2021, I spent over two years of living out of a suitcase in a serviced hotel. Aside from the weekly...

“All I ever wanted was the freedom to make my own mistakes.” - Mance Rayder Some years back when we got into the advisory business as a...

“We’re more threatened by people who want the same things as us than by those who don’t. Ask yourself, honestly: whom are you more...

Reflections for the day: True wealth was never about the accumulation of money but a way of life. There is no point in comparing...

The concept of ‘retiring early’ has always eluded me. Only recently did I decide to look at this from a quantitative and slightly whimsy...

Had catch-up drinks with a much older (more than 12 years) friend that I hadn't seen in nearly two years. Our common experience of having...

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

I have been teaching financial modelling for over 5 years now. But at the first ever class held in July 2018, the delivery was so badly...

It just goes to show that even seemingly intelligent humans, when desperate, gullible and possibly even bored enough, will believe nearly...

“They talk about work-life balance. That’s a term I didn’t even know when I was their age. Work-life balance. When I was their age, if...

Words from a few folks which I had whiskey with today: A lot of investment firms out there have earned themselves a reputation for doing...

At twenty, you don’t get the life you deserve, you are just the product of the environment you were lucky or unlucky to have. Then, as...

As I enter my third year of working for a Chinese company and living in China, it felt apt to reflect on and summarise a few takeaways...

During the initial years of starting IJK, we contemplated the option of moving me from Singapore to...

Come next year on 3 January, I would have clocked three years into my current company. Unknown to many, this is my longest ever unbroken...

I am not usually fond of reading corporate marketing material but ended up flipping through the pages of a book I came across in the hotel..

I have never been much of a waterfront-living type of person, but the view of the Victoria harbour can be quite addictive. Quiet mornings...

It feels weird to say I'm traveling 'back' to Hong Kong after a business trip. I have spent the majority of my time here for the last 2+...