How to survive NS
Here is something I’ve wanted to write for a long long time but have been procrastinating on because I visualized someth
Dear Guitar: You matter to me
This isn’t to any particular guitar. I’ve had a few guitars over the years. Interestingly, I’ve never actual
Vision: To contribute to human welfare by diminishing ignorance
I want to contribute to human knowledge and welfare. How does one do that? There’s a central structure at the root of it
My Goals as a Tutor
I intend to be a tutor and mentor to Singaporean teenagers once I’m done re-taking my A-levels. There are many tutors ou
How do you know yourself?
Start by realizing and accepting that it’s okay not to “know yourself.” Knowing yourself is a process and a
Conversations
Conversations should be constructive. It should be about exploration, mutual respect. It should be fun, and reasonably challen
Work for me seems to happen in short intense sessions
Updated A Little Bit In October 2014 It’s good to spend loads of time on our craft. But for me, long periods of time de
Language Is Beautifully Flawed
Language is a beautiful creature, full of redundancies and flaws. Every word of every language carries with it thousands of ye
Letter I wrote to myself (June 2010)
It’s think-out-loud time. Balance, effectively, the right-now and the big pictures. Ignore neither, and do justice to bo
greatness requires faith
Wherever you see Greatness, somebody took risks and embodied Faith. (previous title) Greatness is relative. No matter how grea
do you doubt yourself, and if so, why do anything?
I delayed starting my blog, I often left thoughts unexplored and unwritten because I felt like there couldn’t possibly b
The Hero Hypothesis
The world needs more Heroes. What do I mean by that? What constitutes a Hero? Everybody has different ideas, but most of them
To live well, we must prepare for Death.
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” – Chuck Palahniuk A c
I don’t want to sell ebooks about writing ebooks.
I think what I’ve missed the most about blogging is my rambling nonsense. Seriously, that was my favourite part about bl
Emotions: How you can manage them, and why you should
I often like to pretend that I’m a logical thinker, so for the longest time I (illogically!) convinced myself that emoti
Figuring out the most important question.
What’s the most important question you can think of? Let me go through a few ideas: “Where do we come from? Why ar
On binging, and moderation.
I want to talk about binging. We all know that too much of anything isn’t very good. Excessive beer, cigarettes, food, e
Daily tracking.
Any video gamer knows that your status bar is one of the most important things that you need to pay attention to. The informat
Get off social media for a month and you realize how little it matters.
I went to bed at 1030pm or so, and I woke up at about 1230 am, presumably because I needed to pee. (It wasn’t a strong u