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

So much has happened since the horrific Hamas invasion of Israel a week ago. We have seen an overwhelming deluge of news and discussions as we wanted to know more. But there also has been a lot of misinformation being spread on social media. Everyone, including myself, is seeking to digest the outflow of information…

This week was an important one for the firm as we had 3 critical meetings lined up to chart and determine the company’s next growth stage. On Mon, it was more preparation work to prep for our next call with our potential German strategic partner for one of our Green tech projects. We were also…

Time really flies when you work. I have just crossed my 1 month work anniversary and earned my first paycheck. Yay! I still can’t believe that I had taken a 6-year break from full-time work before starting this new adventure this month. This week things slowed down a bit as I caught up with a…

Time really flies when you work full-time. The weekdays pass quickly; before you know it, it’s TGIF again. I felt it much more because I stopped having a normal job when I left my last bank job in Oct 2017 and was always trying to find new things to do to kill time. The last…

I had a good first week of work last week after not working full time for the past 6 years since my last one in Oct 2017. It turned out better than I thought as I was trying to figure out strategically what needed to be done. I was mentally exhausted every day and slept…

I finally started my first day of full-time work on Monday with much trepidation and anxiety as my last full-time job was in 2017. In last week’s blog, I had elaborated on what I had been doing during the last 6 years and how I managed to land this new role. I had prepared for…

I am 57 this year and my last full-time job ended in Oct 2017 when I left a UK bank after less than a year there. For the last 6 years, I have pivoted to project-based consultancy roles as well as become a full-time student in various new lifelong learning interests I had discovered along…

An interesting podcast from Scott Galloway interviewing Mo, an expert on AI and its inevitable progress. That ChatGPT’s current IQ is about 155 versus Albert Enstein’s 160 and will be unmeasurable with future versions soon. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-prof-g-pod-with-scott-galloway/id1498802610?i=1000620994812 The bonus was the last 19 minutes where Mo shared his views on life, death and happiness. That was…