My wife and I have discussed and debated on the question when we do our family planning on many occasions. Both of us have different views, given our backgrounds. While thinking deep and hard about the question over the month before I started work coupled with great conversations I have with various friends, I have...
Ever since the news of Chalkboard’s shutdown came, I am appreciative and thankful to many people (and even former competitors) who have dropped me a note and came forward to provide their support and help towards where my next steps would be. I enjoyed those conversations and shared with them the lessons learnt from Chalkboard....
The presentation slides on slideshare based on a talk I have given in BlinkBl-nk 20 on 20 June 2012 in Blu Jazz, Singapore. The synopsis of the talk is as follows: Have you ever wondered why you are never able to get a taxi during certain times of the day in Singapore? Have you ever...
Here’s a guide to help me to consolidate the resources required for my learning of Ruby on Rails for rapid prototyping. This daily annotations serves as a collection point for me to consolidate some references which will be helpful to my own learning. I will update the annotations whenever I find a reference which is...
Peter Thiel’s course CS183: Startup in Stanford for Spring 2012 has been annotated and curated by a student, Blake Masters. A very interesting course gathering notable personalities from the start-up world such as Paul Graham, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andressen and Stephen Cohen with their thoughts added to the mix. While teaching courses including...
Acqhire is a new buzzword as an exit strategy when big tech companies have purchased small companies, primarily as a talent recruitment strategy with a sometimes significant signing bonus. So far, to the best of my knowledge, it only happens in the US. Facebook is probably the most well-known company in such type of takeovers...
In the past three months, reading the biography of “Steve Jobs” and Jim Collins’ “Great by Choice” made me think hard on my own shortcomings. Coupled with two exhausting trips to both Silicon Valley (San Francisco, US) and Zhong Guan Cun (Beijing, China) where anyone including myself looked at the groundbreaking successes of many technology...
I have recently started to jot down some thoughts and reflections on my personal and career or collect bits and pieces of interesting information with a digital scrapbook. It helps me to archive some insights not just from myself but from others during discussions on topics of interest. One interesting conversation was one that I...
It is probably the most anticipated biography that I have pre-ordered during March 2011. When the book was brought forward from March 2012 to Nov 2011, subsequently to today, there was a gut feeling in me that I know that something is about to change. The death of an icon entrepreneur and innovator, Steve Jobs...
