Tuesday, February 27, 2018

The Art of the Good Life #12 : The Things that you buy leave no trace

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When an experiment is conducted where researchers ask participants about how much a recently bought object brings them happiness, it was fo...
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Sunday, February 25, 2018

Some quantitative characteristics of Cryptocurrency

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The source of this article is the Cryptassets book by Burniske and Tatar. I also draw a lot of quantitative isights from Cryptocurrency : ...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Six compelling reasons for cryptocurrency.

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I've been delaying this article during the ramp up of cryptocurrencies but since the prices have sort of corrected and calmed down, it i...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Budget 2018 discussions mirrors our journey towards Financial Independence

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On the whole, we've had a fantastic 2017, which was why Budget 2018 was not a punitive one even though it was a mid-term budget. T...
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Monday, February 19, 2018

The Art of the Good Life #11 : The Focusing Illusion

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Suppose you had a really bad day in the office. Meetings were extremely long and dwelled on unimportant matters. Your boss is also giving gr...
Friday, February 16, 2018

Personal Update - Happy Chinese New Year of the Dogg !

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I had an inkling that the Year of the Earth Dog is going to be a fairly good year for me. Based on the stem and branch Chinese horoscope...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Happy Valentine's Day !

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I try to come up with something every Valentine's Day but this year I have said everything I wanted to say so I was about to skip it unt...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

The Art of the Good Life #10 : The Five Second No.

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Human beings have evolved to cooperate with each other which is why our dominant rule of thumb is the rule of  tit for tat. We are wired t...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Ready for Budget 2018 ?

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The good thing about not being chosen to be one of the beautiful people to promote Budget 2018 is that I am free to write whatever I feel li...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

AAR : Profiting from Macroeconomic Trend Shifts

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We held a seminar on Macroeconomic Trend Shifts last Thursday night. I will leave it to the other bloggers Xeo Lye and Elvin Liang to talk a...
Monday, February 05, 2018

The Art of the Good Life #9 : The Authenticity Trap

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Suppose you and a Japanese food connoisseur friend go to new restaurant and order a bowl of Ramen. When the Ramen arrives, your friend i...
Saturday, February 03, 2018

Brutal truths about non-elite JC education.

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First of all, my heart goes out to the students and alumni of the JCs which got merged. Years of history were flushed down the drain when th...
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Thursday, February 01, 2018

[ Next BIGSCRIBE Event] Profiting from Macroeconomic Trend Shifts

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My next gig will be on 8th February. However, this time things are going to be slightly different for BIGScribe, I will not be speaking b...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

The Art of the Good Life #8 : The Introspection Illusion

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The introspection illusion means that you should never let your emotions guide you because our emotions are fluid. Also you cannot contempla...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

Why are female experts on personal finance so fierce ?

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[ I need to make a disclaimer at this stage, while it might seem that person we are referring to is Budget Babe, the conversation is not tri...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Improving your life satisfaction with more "cash on hand"

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There is a brief report entitled How your bank balance buys happiness: The Importance of "Cash on Hand" to Life Satisfaction b...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

The Art of the Good Life #7 : The Ovarian Lottery.

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This week, we will discuss the Ovarian Lottery. First of all, ask yourself... What much of your personal success is a result of your...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Think twice before you marry the financially independent guy.

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[ Kyith Ng of Investment Moats requested a fantasy themed picture to represent a financially independent person. I think a D&D Troll ...
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Friday, January 19, 2018

Properties of an ideal investment across history.

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Sometimes lessons about money can be picked up from some of the most shameful moments of human history. One of the hardest chapters to r...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

The Art of the Good Life #6 : Negative thinking

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By negative thinking, we mean to live our lives thinking about minimising the negatives rather than maximising the positives. This makes a...