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Category: What Works

Great life lessons from people who have “been there, done that” long before you.

Being more selfish by practicing Effective Altruism

Andy 8th December 2017 17th December 2017

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…

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Book Review – Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference by William MacAskill

Andy 7th December 2017 29th October 2018

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…

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Do you still want to drive a car yourself?

Andy 3rd December 2017 3rd December 2017

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…

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Are you ‘kiasu’ enough on being lazy?

Andy 4th November 2017 4th November 2017
Laziness pays off now

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…

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The speed you walk at determines your intelligence …

Andy 21st October 2017 21st October 2017

… 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…

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My 10 Golden Rules: If I were 22, I’d wish that someone would have taught me

Andy 17th September 2017 28th May 2020
10 Golden Rules

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…

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What the age-experienced know and we don’t

Andy 30th July 2017 30th July 2017

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:…

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Use your money to buy happiness

Andy 15th July 2017 4th March 2019
Money can buy happiness through experiences

The younger you are, the more likely you are to believe that more money is the key to happiness. This is why, in my experience, many confident 20-year-old college boy wants to go into investment banking. And it’s why we…

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Success is here – it all depends on the second letter

Andy 12th July 2017 12th July 2017

I ended my previous post with the question “How will you measure your life?” Another way to put it would be to ask “How do U define your success?” Do you have a vivid picture in your mind what success…

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Do you know where you are going?

Andy 3rd June 2017 3rd June 2017

Everyone wants to be wealthy. The problem I see more often than any other is that the majority of normal investors skip the first step in the process of wealth building completely. People want to know what to invest in…

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