Great life lessons from people who have “been there, done that” long before you.
How do you value time versus money? Let’s first understand a crucial difference between them: As a personal commodity, money is extremely elastic, in that you can theoretically accumulate an infinite amount of it. Time, by contrast, is intrinsically inelastic:…
To grow your nest-egg you can earn more or invest more. Wherever you look there are reports on robots taking our jobs. Are you a bit scared of AI and robots yet? When my generation entered the workforce in the…
Sorry, what did you say? “You are a bit late with your forecast, Tacomob. It’s already February!” Well, dear reader, what’s a year anyway? It’s merely the orbital period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun. But…
Singapore is small by many standards. Certainly very small in terms of population. We only have 5.6 million residents. Roughly a quarter of municipal Shanghai or less than 0.1% (0.073% in fact) of the global population. A mighty punching-above-their weight…
Hello, my dear reader, today I feel very powerful. So I have decided to promote you to the position of CEO. Congratulations. You are a real CEO now. Not later! Now! What do I mean by that? In this information age,…
Do you feel engaged at your work? This is somehow an off-pattern post here on TACOMOB. But it totally fits into the context of Taking Care of Your Own Business – your own business of earning money by working for…
My apologies, in case I puzzled you, but we do love our acronyms here in Singapore. I have mentioned the PFC previously under the “Framing Bias” but to expound further, the PFC is your Prefrontal Cortex; a brain region that lies…
Does your work rock? Does your work sometimes feel like this? Recognition is the fuel that keeps us going. Do you feel you are being recognized enough for what you are doing for the company by your bosses? What…
THE GOOD LIFE IS ANYWHERE We tell ourselves that we need the right setup before we finally buckle down and get serious. We tell ourselves that we need this and that at work, a more supportive boss, more autonomy, more…
There are people out there who want to be rich—without the risk, the sacrifice, or the delayed gratification necessary to accumulate such wealth. But you and I—logically—do not belong to that group. Of course not! Well, in my case, that statement is a tiny bit of wishful…