Saturday, March 31, 2018

A Millionaire mindset is a Low SES mindset !

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The genesis of this post came from an anecdote from a friend who attended a financial talk over a decade ago. This financial talk was co...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

The Art of the Good Life #16 : Tyranny of a calling

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"Few people are as unhappy as those with a talent no one cares about." - John Gray. The lesson in this chapter is that chasi...
Friday, March 23, 2018

On the hypocrisy surrounding War-chests and Leverage investing

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Not everyone is a big fan of leverage investing using a margin the account. It is probably not coincidental that some of these detractor...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

The Art of the Good Life #15 : The Secret of Persistence

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Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and speed. This chapter is about persistence. The secret to success is about taking...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

Thoughts on yesterday's Computation Law and Blockchain Event

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There is nothing that a seasoned IT professional despises more than a lawyer who obstructs his projects in the corporate world. I should...
Friday, March 16, 2018

On Nicholas Taleb, leverage and ruin

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Skin in the Game by Nicholas Taleb is not finance book per se but some of its ideas are interesting enough to challenge some of my ideas of...
Monday, March 12, 2018

The Art of the Good Life #14 : Circle of Competence

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The last chapter was easy to read because Fuck You money agrees with me so much. This week's chapter is the opposite because it really...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

Why Singaporeans tolerate inequality.

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You see that parade of academics and rhetoricians rail about inequality in Singapore. Social commentators, however, are less willing to d...
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Thursday, March 08, 2018

Two abuses of words and labels

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Let's go back to Budget Debate and how much Western educated liberals are working so hard to convince policy makers to start opening up ...
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Monday, March 05, 2018

The Art of the Good Life #13 : Fuck You Money

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Because this is a financial blog, I would say that this chapter is the only disappointing one so far. The author positions fuck-you mo...
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Saturday, March 03, 2018

The Influence of Religion on Personal Finance

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Today's topic is going to be a teensy bit controversial, so I put up a picture of controversial person. Some other financial bloggers...
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Thursday, March 01, 2018

The Influence of Language on Personal Finance

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This is the single most momentous event in Fantasy Literature with Legend of the Condor Heroes being successfully translated into English...
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...