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For my current job, I had to read up on sustainability topics and understand the urgency of climate change and why we are running out of time to provide future generations with a livable earth. The more I read, the more I learn of the reasons to be afraid of if there is no coordinated…

It was a tense and long Friday (07 Jun). I was about to meet up with some old friends for breakfast and discuss investment ideas when I received an urgent call that my dad had injured himself while exercising. Their domestic helper called me to say that an ambulance had sent him to the hospital…

Nvidia did it again and announced another back-to-back quarterly financial result that blew everyone’s mind this week. The stock price surged another $100+ to cross $1k each, adding another $200+ billion to its market cap. At $2.6 Trillion today, it is now the 3rd largest company in the world, just behind Microsoft and Apple. Its…

Given that the value of JPY had weakened by 15% since our last Japan trip in Aug 2023, we decided to plan another trip again. This time it was to a city we had never visited before. My friends were always talking about Fukuoka and how wonderful it was. It has lovely weather, cheap and…

I have always been interested in how American politics had degenerated to the current state of facts doesn’t matter and it’s us against them mentality. We see a total distrust of the political system and media leading to the widespread belief in conspiracy theories and the “trust no one” mindset. This led America down the…

There is just so much AI-related news coming out every week that it is so hard to track which are the ones that will change the world and which are just the flavour-of-the-day types that will fade away. But the trend is clear newer innovations will continue to amaze us and set the tone for…

Just when you thought that Nvidia cannot surprise the market anymore, it did it again at its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on Monday. CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote announcement of its new products blew the competition away. Again! Just less than a month ago, Nvidia’s stunning quarterly financial results (which I wrote about in an earlier blog)…

What is a career pivot? It is a planned, purposeful change in career direction. It can be a move to a related field, or to something completely new. Whatever its direction, a pivot is a meaningful change that requires thought and careful planning. An ex-colleague had recently asked me why I hadn’t considered writing about my…