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Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
A few months ago I finished this wonderful biography of Steve Jobs, who–along with Muhammad Ali–is, I reckon, the most inspirational figure in recent times. These are some of my favourite quotes from...
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Goodbye full time, Hello freelance
Though I am not given to soppy, soul-searching posts, I suppose there are times when life cries out for them. Up till a year ago, I was fairly certain I was going to spend the majority of my working...
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Why has Singapore failed to prepare its citizens adequately for the knowledge...
One of China’s main challenges is “cultural habits that limit imagination and creativity, rewarding conformity….China will inevitably catch up to the US in GDP. But its creativity may never match...
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Why has Singapore failed to prepare its citizens adequately for the knowledge...
This is Part 2 of 2. To read Part 1, click here. The Singapore model—why it struggles to produce knowledge workers If we accept the argument that the average Singaporean worker will, compared to...
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The Burning Man: A geographical analysis of a new-age pilgrimage
At the top of “6 o’clock”, a main street in Black Rock City, Nevada The folks at UC Berkeley’s library have just kindly dug out my Geography Undergraduate Honours Thesis from 2002 and scanned it. I had...
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Horse Play Happening in Woodstock, 1967 Embrace narcissism. When you recover from the invasion of polka dots on your smartphone—yellow-and-black, primary colours on white, pixelated stardust from...
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“an insane asylum has lots of creative ideas, but you have to have management discipline to have a meritocracy of ideas”
View ArticleWhy I like Sticker Lady
By covering up banal pedestrian fixtures, Sticker Lady has exposed a divide. As soon as she was caught, some labelled her a vandal, lumping her with brats who seriously damage public property for no...
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The Straits Times, July 20th 2012 Improving Singapore’s preschool environment can, over time, help to boost birth rates, reduce social inequalities and better prepare people for work in a knowledge...
View ArticleMy first ever book launch: The Ups and Downs
Dear friends, thanks for all the support and encouragement. It’s still a bit surreal holding my very first book in my hands. In some ways, it seems like just yesterday that Sumana Rajarethnam, my best...
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