Musings of a 50+ year old boy – a halftime journey

Time flies and it is already Feb and I am late for my annual setting of new year goals to list my Key Performance Indicators to achieve for 2025. This year is a bit different from previous ones. I have decided to join my wife and retire from full-time work. At 58 and 56 years…

I review my previous annual goals and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) at the beginning of each new year for the ones I set out last year. This year I am running a bit late and it is already 02 Feb. So much has happened within the first month, with the new American president on 20…

In 2 days, the great disrupter will again take over the office of the most powerful job in the world. While he is more prepared this time than in 2016 with the crypto bros rallying him on, I cannot help but feel we will be in for a wild ride in the next 4 years.…

Year-end is always a special time for us as we celebrate Christmas and New Year with loved ones and gather for good food. This year was even more special as our older son returned from HK to spend time with us and we squeezed in a 1-week family vacation to Hanoi too. 24 Dec –…

I recently came across this annual report by futurist and author CEO Amy Webb. Via a long summary, she set up some thought-provoking 2025 Macro Themes which I had reread a few times to fully digest the various topics she was conveying. The future looks bright with multiple tech breakthroughs I first heard about the…

Banksy, an artist who periodically appeared on my radar over the last twenty-plus years, always intrigued me. He was a mysterious graffiti street artist who continued to deface walls and buildings with provocative images of current events. After careful planning, his pictures would suddenly appear overnight, and the world would lavish attention on his latest…

It has been 3+ months since my last blog. I have stopped posting regularly since starting full-time work late last year. It was also laziness as weekends became precious for me, to rest and do leisurely stuff to destress from work plus not having to think about a topic to blog about every week. A…

An interesting story about how a small country has been able to leverage its abundant renewable energy resources via a digital solution to build up its strategic reserves. Bhutan has been quietly mining Bitcoin (“BTC”) using its hydropower resources to the point that its $780M Bitcoin holdings are now equal to 25% of its total…