Tuesday, April 27, 2021

More on the CPF Shielding Lifehack Abomination !

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The previous article was a humongous success with so much interaction, I actually had to censor some comments from some angry FAs. This clea...
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Friday, April 23, 2021

CPF Shielding Lifehack is an Abomination that must be ended by the CPF Board

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So a few really smart CPF hackers discovered this CPF lifehack that you can read about here .  Apparently, authorities will populate your CP...
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Monday, April 19, 2021

Personal Update - The Future is Quantum

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 I'm in between books, so it is time for a personal update. a) Business The rule I apply to this current life is that I need one win out...
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Thursday, April 15, 2021

Is Blue Collar work feasible in Singapore ?

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  America is disillusioned about getting degrees. Unless you are going to an Ivy League university, the odds don't look good as you'...
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Monday, April 12, 2021

What REAL retirees want

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  For someone who teaches an Early Retirement class, I'm quite clueless about the lives of REAL retirees - the folks who do not succeed ...
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Saturday, April 10, 2021

Immortality - what lies beyond FIRE

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  The financial market in Singapore is booming and not even news on a delay in succession planning was able to dent the performance of my po...
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Wednesday, April 07, 2021

Ideas on Wealth by Woke Academics

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  The FIRE community is grateful for the works of many sociologists in the past. The most important work is The Millionaire Next Door by Th...
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Sunday, April 04, 2021

Brutal Truths about Modern Dating in Singapore Part II

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The previous generated quite a number of hilarious exchanges in the FB finance forums so I thought a follow-up post should be in order. I th...
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Thursday, April 01, 2021

Brutal truths about Modern Dating in Singapore

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Disclaimer: This post will trigger a lot of people who will say that I am generalising too broadly with my model and that it can be disprove...
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Monday, March 29, 2021

Insights from Gen Z lingo

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  Every generation has its own lingo that reflects what matters to them. Today I will be sharing three really amazing words/phrases I picked...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

How deep tech skills can become irrelevant in the working world

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In a chat with Gen X IT uncles, an ex-colleague had a grand theory. His hypothesis was that all the director-level IT guys he knows relied u...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Brutal lessons from the Gen X experience in the Technology sector

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Recently, there have been many articles in mainstream media that celebrate women in Tech. If you examine closely at the career profiles of G...
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Sunday, March 21, 2021

Channel your "arts brain" for more financial security

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An acquaintance was recently outed by Rice Media and Chinese mainstream newspapers as running a vending machine business which led to many u...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Career advice for civil service farmers

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  I'm fairly used to getting questions I'm totally unqualified to answer during course previews.  Last night, after hearing my story...
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Sunday, March 14, 2021

Is love a concept invented by losers ? Now 80% of men are not marriage material !

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I continue to be haunted by the ghosts of the past.  During the interview with MissFITFI, she mentioned the article I wrote in 2007 about wh...
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Thursday, March 11, 2021

Collaborating and hanging out with Millenials and Gen Z content creators

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What do I not wish to become? I don't want to be another 40-something year old whose musical and pop culture interests were stuck in the...
Tuesday, March 09, 2021

New Developments on the ERM Tool.

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No substantial updates this week as I have a podcast with MissFITFI tomorrow, and I have to ramp up to my community event on Saturday. On th...
Saturday, March 06, 2021

ERM Community Event - 13th March Saturday 2pm

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It is time for the quarterly ERM Community event. I conduct a more advanced lecture for students of my program that is open to members of th...