Great life lessons from people who have “been there, done that” long before you.
Don’t waste your time reading all those stock market forecasts! Unless it is for pure entertainment. At the beginning of each year, there are many pundits, experts, self-proclaimed gurus, and other suspicious characters who’d like to sell you stuff predicting…
Even if you do, it would be better if you do not (ever) admit to having any “spare time” as our culture still revolves around one’s ability to stay focused for hours or days on end and being busy—all the time. Because, unlike most addictions, workaholism is…
No, not really. Finance is a simple industry made to look and sound complicated to justify fees. Just one example, active managers love to confuse us by using Greek words. Like – alpha – to describe what other industries call…
It’s a basic rule of economics that money is less valuable to you the more you have of it. It’s the end of the year and it’s the season of giving. It’s a fact that giving is the most selfish…
You’re rich. No, really you are. Whether you’ve paid for a computer or smartphone to browse the TACOMOB website on, or even handed a few coins over at an internet cafe, you’re far richer than many of your fellow human…
Having realized that I have not written anything on the topic of our (us guys) favourite toy—the car—(or has the smartphone already overtaken that position?) I feel quite a drive to change that. Having said that, do you recall that it was only about 10…
There are many merits of being lazy. Come on, don’t be lazy, be a bit kiasu* and read on. Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is combined with intelligent thought and high ambition. For example, lazy…
… in other people’s minds. The timescale bias is quite a profound thing with serious implications. Ever noticed that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster than you is a maniac?—George Carlin That is timescale…
1) How to succeed? The education system you just went through has planted some seeds into you. Now it is up to you—and only you—to make them grow. Go the extra mile, and see how good you can be at…
Or maybe we actually do know it and just fail in doing what we know we should do. To know and not to do is really not to know yet. Some timeless advice I’ve heard from the age-experienced over the years:…