I have fortnightly piano lessons with an extremely young teacher - yes, I left Asia only to become more Asian than I ever was back home. At a guess, I would say he's about 21 years old - very cool. Long hair, a very laid back manner of speech, and always ready with some ...
I've just turned 29. Props to this guy for the soul read.
These are just some reflections on life so far, and what I'd like to focus on in the future. A major theme of my past year has been on existential issues around work, and I think that going forward, I'll b...
I was recently told about a project at a company which involved cleaning up a dataset which consisted of around 100M individual entries - the reason the cleaning is required is that, due to various absolutely fucking dumb decisions, a massive proportion of the dataset were d...
Overconfidence
I've been thinking a lot about confidence and how absolutely Gross (capital G intentional) it is, and how unpleasant so many of executives I've spoken to have ended up being.
In my experience, and I would wager most people's experience, confident p...
I killed Superman
I killed Super-man,
and how ironic
That I'd be the bad guy,
kryptonite, the green chronic
Superman
Before I moved to the developed world, I worked at a fairly sketchy startup that had branches in a few developing countries. It was my first job after u...
Several years ago, I came across this blog post talking about how often we don't take obvious advice. A few instances of this spring right to mind. For example, my gym schedule was badly disrupted by Covid, and I never got back into it. I obviously should, but I haven...
A note from the future: I no longer believe the corporate facade is complicated. It is complicated in that there are many factors at play and many of the actors in the system believe in the beautiful vision, but the truth is that it's all an elaborate justification for g...
There are a few things that inspire deep revulsion in me. The episode of Star Trek: Voyager I just watched was pretty gross. I definitely saw some pretty bad roadkill on my daily walks during the Covid lockdowns. But nothing - nothing - comes close to the white hot fury that...
Post-mortem
After going viral, there is one comment I'd like to address. One guy pointed out how comfortable this work seemed, how high the pay was, and said I am out-of-touch and privileged. To that I say, yes, obviously. I moved to the first-world to have first-world p...
