Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Why we need to resist the idea of SAP Polytechnics and SAP Universities.

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  Of late, I've been catching up with secondary school pals to organize dinners with our secondary school teachers. With nostalgic remin...
Saturday, August 27, 2022

On Wild Problems

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  As I run a programme that is highly dependent on number crunching by computers, I'm fully aware that there are a class of problems tha...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

FIRE is a good servant but bad master.

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I had the good fortune to received a message on Linkedin from Keith Yap.  He wrote this, and I'm posting it here because somehow he coul...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Does FIRE subvert conventional ideas of work and finances ? WTF !

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  I don't know whether to laugh or to cry, his guy called Keith Yap, who seems to work in the Government, referenced my CNA article, and...
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Monday, August 15, 2022

On Singapore's elusive third gear lifestyle

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  Every National Day, I want to talk about emigration. But this year it seems that many influencers and bloggers have started to beat me to ...
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Friday, August 12, 2022

The best is yet to be - My adventures at ACS Independent

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  It is good that investment trainers to do some pro-bono by visiting secondary schools and presenting to students. If you're lucky, som...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Keep discretionary expenses to things that suit your personality

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  Nick Maggiulli's Just Keep Buying  was highly recommended by friends and some readers of this blog and I enjoyed the book immensely. W...
Monday, August 08, 2022

Thinking and lifestyle design using real options and annuities

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This post came about because of MissFITFI's podcast with the owner of Saturday Kids. You can listen to the podcast here. I want to focu...
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Saturday, August 06, 2022

Why you will fail at Value Investing - part 3

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  Having established that the company has a high business and management quality. The final step is to determine whether the price is cheap ...
Wednesday, August 03, 2022

Why you will fail at Value Investing - part 2

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  If you think that Part 1 of this series makes Value Investing look impossible for retail investors, part 2 would be even worse, we will be...
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Saturday, July 30, 2022

Letter to Batch 26 of the Early Retirement Masterclass

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Dear Students of Batch 26, It’s been a great honour and privilege to conduct a 5-Day Early Retirement Workshop for you. Batch 26 is one ...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Why you will fail at Value Investing - part 1

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  Over the next few weeks, I will be reviewing the latest literature on Value Investing. I've decided to do a three-part series on this ...
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Sunday, July 24, 2022

Why buy the whole cow when you only need the milk ?

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The idea of why a person would want to buy a whole cow when he only needs to drink some milk is quite an ancient one. My dad always had a bu...
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Friday, July 22, 2022

Is Singapore too "tense" for our own good ?

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  For reasons which can only be explained if you know me well enough, I seldom have a meal with my secondary school classmates. It's jus...
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Friday, July 15, 2022

Why you need to have your own Marshmallow Test

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When the Stanford Marshmallow Test was conducted in the 1970s, psychologists concluded that kids who can exert enough self-control to resist...
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Monday, July 11, 2022

Million dollar idea : How to Develop Conscientiousness

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  The question of how to develop and increase conscientiousness is a million-dollar question that parents and various arms of the government...
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