Am I saving enough?
Quick question: Would it be easier for you to save 20% of your monthly income, or to live on 80% of your monthly income? In case you answered, “Save 20%,” you are just average (sorry for being so blunt) and might be…
Tag: happiness
Would you please take care of your PFC
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…
Sunday = Ponder-day
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…
Question time: What does your job mean to you?
Does it give you a purpose beyond that biggest addiction of them all – your monthly paycheck? Does it enable you to contribute to something bigger than yourself? Hmm, what is he trying to get at? Allow me…
The best things in life aren’t things
I was a bit quiet over the last 4 weeks for a reason. I went for a Mountain Biking Tour to Nepal. Living in a densely populated City-Island-State like Singapore—where driving in any direction for about 30 minutes brings you…
Ponder-worthy stuff I read last week
The best way to talk to people about money … is keeping the phrases, “What do you want to do?” or “Whatever works for you,” loaded and ready to fire. You can explain to other people the history of what…
Working to Live or Living to Work?
How was your weekend? Was it full of memorable moments? How many days of annual leave do you have left carried over from 2017? What kind of experiences are you going to exchange them for? Need some encouragement? Have a…
You’ve got a minute …?
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…
Being more selfish by practicing Effective Altruism
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…
Book Review – Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference by William MacAskill
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…
Would you please take care of your PFC
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…
Sunday = Ponder-day
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…
Question time: What does your job mean to you?
Does it give you a purpose beyond that biggest addiction of them all – your monthly paycheck? Does it enable you to contribute to something bigger than yourself? Hmm, what is he trying to get at? Allow me…
The best things in life aren’t things
I was a bit quiet over the last 4 weeks for a reason. I went for a Mountain Biking Tour to Nepal. Living in a densely populated City-Island-State like Singapore—where driving in any direction for about 30 minutes brings you…
Ponder-worthy stuff I read last week
The best way to talk to people about money … is keeping the phrases, “What do you want to do?” or “Whatever works for you,” loaded and ready to fire. You can explain to other people the history of what…
Working to Live or Living to Work?
How was your weekend? Was it full of memorable moments? How many days of annual leave do you have left carried over from 2017? What kind of experiences are you going to exchange them for? Need some encouragement? Have a…
You’ve got a minute …?
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…
Being more selfish by practicing Effective Altruism
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…
Book Review – Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference by William MacAskill
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…