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

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…

As we were approaching our long National Day weekend, my wife and I had planned for a 3-night vacation trip to KL, the capital of Malaysia last week. For many years, we had traditionally stayed in S’pore to gather at my sister’s place for a family potluck dinner and watch the NDP fireworks from her…

What a mad few weeks of American political news cumulating to an explosive 180-degree turn of sentiment in the last few days. We witnessed the shooter who almost managed to assassinate Trump, then the victorious “fight, fight, fight” photo with blood streaming down his ear to the 4-day RNC convention rally that convinced many he…

I attended an event on Wed evening that was organized by a group of old boys from my Alma Mater. That was the highlight of my week. It was fun and stimulating as the topics of the speakers of the event were so close to my heart. Not only because it was a gathering of…

Watching American politics unfolding into the Nov Presidential elections is like death by a thousand paper cuts. Non-Americans can genuinely see the slow decline of the once-great nation imploding from within as a divided nation fights against itself. This week on Thurs, it was the first presidential election debate hosted live by CNN. We see…