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Gary Teh

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Personal writings on startups, investing, technology, and life reflections

817 posts spanning from 2009 to 2025 • Topics: AI, Startups, Machine Learning, Investing, Psychology, Macro Economics, and more

2025 (1 posts)

Thoughts on Ditching the Database Bloat: AI and the Return to Flat FilesNEW
2025-11-04 • Technology, AI, Startups, Architecture

2024 (1 posts)

Speculations on life after death
2024-06-30 • health, Spiritual Training, psychology, Nature

2022 (2 posts)

Thoughts on DAOs - Viral Loops, Dunbar number and Forking
2022-07-21 • BlockChain, Culture, DAO
2022 Key insights from Singapore Tech EcoSystem
2022-01-20 • Startups, Marketing, Macro Economic trends, Venture Capital, BlockChain, Business models

2021 (19 posts)

Building a sales organization
2021-08-18 • Startups, Business models, Management
Brad Feld on validating your startup idea
2021-08-12 • Startups, Agile, Business models
Peter Thiel Lecture on Startup Strategy
2021-07-16 • Business models, Strategy
Chat with Priscilla on UX
2021-07-10 • Uncategorized, Design, Startups
Black and White Thinking by Kevin Dutton
2021-06-01 • psychology
Insight on discussion with Tiffine
2021-05-24 • Venture Capital, Business models
Single man flying suites: The future is here
2021-05-08 • futurism, Design, Startups, investing, Marketing, Venture Capital, Culture, Business models
Why I built GetData.IO
2021-05-05 • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, personal effectiveness
Founder University day 2021 May 4th
2021-05-04 • Startups, Venture Capital, Business models
Advice from Johnson on fund raising
2021-04-28 • negotiations, Startups, investing, psychology, Business models
Weekend insights with Jerry and Liza
2021-04-25 • Startups, investing, Macro Economic trends
Balancing features on between power users and general masses
2021-04-13 • Design, Startups, psychology, Strategy
An evening of insights with the Hutters
2021-04-11 • Startups, investing, Marketing, Macro Economic trends, Culture, Business models, Strategy
Paid acquisition strategy review
2021-03-21 • Startups, Marketing, Business models, Strategy
Advise from Casey Winters on SEO metric tracking for startups
2021-03-20 • Startups, Marketing, Business models
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui way of life
2021-02-17 • Spiritual Training, psychology, Culture
Observations at the heart of Permian basin
2021-02-10 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Business models, State craft, Financial Crisis, Pandemic
Observed second and third order impact of GameStop frenzy on market stability
2021-02-01 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Business models, Financial Crisis, Pandemic
Permain basis observations
2021-01-21 • psychology, Culture, Geography

2020 (41 posts)

Reflections on navigating inflection points
2020-12-09 • biographies, Spiritual Training, psychology
Psychology of money by Morgan Housel
2020-12-08 • investing, Business models
Observations of a trucker from the trucking community
2020-11-13 • Macro Economic trends, Business models
Diogenes the Cynic: The war against the world
2020-10-21 • biographies, Spiritual Training, psychology, Culture
Key takeaway from Lives of the stoics by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
2020-10-21 • Spiritual Training, psychology
Weapons of Math destruction by Cathy O'Neil
2020-10-21 • Machine Learning, Big Data, Macro Economic trends, Culture, Business models, State craft
A weird 2020 when 2008 repeated itself metaphorically
2020-09-14 • Macro Economic trends, Chance, Financial Crisis, Nature
General thoughts of training trading bot
2020-08-27 • Machine Learning, investing
Realizations from nights spent isolated in the wilderness
2020-08-16 • psychology, Culture, Outdoors
Thoughts on advertising
2020-08-04 • Design, Marketing, psychology
Technical analysis for dummies by Barbara Rockefeller
2020-07-26 • investing, psychology, Strategy
Future concerns
2020-07-06 • health, Spiritual Training, psychology, Culture
Key takeaways from the meaning of vanlife
2020-07-06 • futurism, psychology, Culture, Outdoors
Different by Youngme Moon
2020-06-21 • Marketing, psychology, Culture, Business models
Key lessons learned from 2020 coronavirus sell offs - DONT TALK ABOUT TRADING
2020-06-08 • investing, psychology, personal effectiveness
SPY macro signals for market wide sell offs
2020-06-08 • investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Thoughts on intuition and logic
2020-05-30 • Deep Learning, Big Data, psychology, personal effectiveness
Chat with Quynh on trading
2020-05-25 • Big Data, investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Chance, Financial Crisis
The dichotomy between privacy and health
2020-04-26 • Machine Learning, health, Big Data, investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Culture, State craft, Pandemic
Thoughts on the nature of framing
2020-04-19 • psychology, Culture, Strategy, State craft
Predator's Ball by Connie Bruck
2020-04-14 • negotiations, biographies, investing, Venture Capital, Culture, Business models, Strategy
The trouble with markets by Roger Bootle
2020-04-14 • Macro Economic trends, State craft, Financial Crisis
Liar's poker by Micheal Lewis
2020-04-14 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Culture, Business models, Strategy
King Icahn, biography of a renegade capitalist by Mark Stevens
2020-04-14 • negotiations, biographies, investing, psychology, Culture, Business models, Strategy
Minsky moment and the three types of borrowers
2020-04-06 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Financial Crisis
Observations on our news reporting system as well as investment bank forecasting.
2020-04-04 • Big Data, investing, Macro Economic trends, Business models, State craft, Financial Crisis, Pandemic
The AI economy, Roger Bootle
2020-03-26 • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, futurism, Big Data, Macro Economic trends, Strategy, State craft
Chat with Johnson and Dad on CoronaVirus and crisis investing
2020-03-18 • investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Business models, State craft, Financial Crisis, Pandemic
Global warming and the four horsemen of apocalypse
2020-03-18 • Big Data, investing, agriculture, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Chance, State craft, Financial Crisis, Nature, Pandemic
Observations on asset class price movements during CoronaVirus outbreak
2020-03-18 • Uncategorized
Thoughts on the Corona Virus stock market crash
2020-03-17 • psychology, Strategy, State craft, Pandemic
Federal reserve rate cuts
2020-03-16 • Big Data, investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Business models, Strategy, State craft, Financial Crisis, Pandemic
Thoughts on Fake News
2020-02-28 • Big Data, investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Culture, Business models, Financial Crisis
Conversations with Garis
2020-02-27 • investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Strategy, State craft, Trade War
Thoughts on Crude Oil
2020-02-27 • investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Trade War
Book summary: George Soros the unauthorized biography
2020-02-18 • investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Chance, Financial Crisis
Book summary: What it takes, Stephen Schwarzman
2020-02-18 • investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Culture, Business models, Strategy, Financial Crisis
The alchemy of finance by Georgo Soros
2020-02-16 • investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Chance, Strategy, Financial Crisis
Corona Virus versus SARS virus
2020-01-27 • Big Data, investing, Macro Economic trends, Financial Crisis, Pandemic
Chat with Joe and his dad
2020-01-11 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Developing country, Culture, Strategy, State craft, Trade War, Geography
Dinner with Mansu
2020-01-03 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Strategy, State craft

2019 (161 posts)

Book summary: Buffett the making of an American capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
2019-12-22 • biographies, investing, Macro Economic trends, Business models, Strategy
Book summary: to be a machine by Mark O'Connell
2019-12-17 • Machine Learning, futurism
Reflections for the day
2019-12-16 • psychology
Federal reserve maintains interest rates 11th Dec 2019
2019-12-16 • investing, Macro Economic trends, State craft
Analysis of MeetUp.com’s penetration into Japan and relevant mobile behavior on crowded trains
2019-12-07 • Startups, Macro Economic trends, Business models
Learnings on the auto industry in Japan
2019-12-07 • Business models
Face altering social experiment
2019-12-06 • psychology, Nature
Book summary: The dollar crisis
2019-12-06 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Strategy, State craft, Trade War
French youth impression on President Macron
2019-12-04 • Macro Economic trends, Culture, State craft
Experiments with managing our wealth gap
2019-12-01 • Macro Economic trends, Culture, State craft
Eric Li on the new world order proposed by China
2019-11-26 • Macro Economic trends, Developing country, Strategy, State craft
Investment Biker, Jim Rogers
2019-11-14 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Venture Capital, Developing country, Culture, Strategy, State craft, Geography
Lee Kuan Yew, Interviews and selections by Graham Allison and Robert D Black Will with Ali Wyne
2019-11-14 • Macro Economic trends, Culture, State craft
Federal Reserve chairman testifies before Congress 20191113
2019-11-14 • Macro Economic trends, Strategy, State craft
On China, Henry Kissinger
2019-11-11 • Macro Economic trends, Developing country, Culture, Strategy, State craft
Examples of various networks failing at scale
2019-11-07 • Startups, Macro Economic trends, Venture Capital, Business models, State craft
Crypto-currency exchanges
2019-11-06 • Startups, Venture Capital, BlockChain, Business models
Federal Reserve interest rate cut decision 20191030
2019-10-31 • investing, Macro Economic trends, State craft, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Microsoft university penetration strategy
2019-10-29 • Startups, Big Data, Marketing, Business models, Strategy
Long term reversion to mean patterns
2019-10-28 • investing
PCG misexecution from blackouts and Kincade fire
2019-10-28 • investing
Mother Nature versus City - public utilities
2019-10-24 • investing, Financial Crisis, Nature
NYMT rotation from agency RMBS to CMBS
2019-10-20 • investing, Business models
Bloomberg is a laggard for trend reporting
2019-10-19 • Big Data, investing, Macro Economic trends
General thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg’s warning of the internet’s role in Authoritarianism displacing Democracy
2019-10-18 • Big Data, Marketing, Macro Economic trends, Culture, Business models, Strategy, State craft, Trade War
Growth Leaders Cocktail Hour & Modern CMO Panel
2019-10-18 • Startups, Marketing, Macro Economic trends, Strategy
Book Summary: The book of why, Dana Mackenzie and Judea Pearl
2019-10-17 • Uncategorized
Constrains on world GDP levels
2019-10-17 • Big Data, Macro Economic trends, Culture, State craft, Nature
Simultaneous inflation and deflation pressures in China
2019-10-15 • Big Data, agriculture, Macro Economic trends, Developing country, State craft, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Ethereum smart contract introduction - HackerDojo
2019-10-14 • BlockChain
Bloomberg does AB testing
2019-10-14 • Machine Learning, Big Data, psychology, Trade War
A simple framework to identify areas of innovation
2019-10-14 • Design, Startups, Business models, Strategy
An unchanging constant as the source of trust
2019-10-13 • Startups, investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, BlockChain, Culture, Business models, Strategy, State craft, Financial Crisis
Introduction to AI - HackerDojo
2019-10-13 • Machine Learning
Thoughts of various asset class type and their usage
2019-10-11 • investing, Macro Economic trends, State craft, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Observed unwinding of credit in the market
2019-10-11 • Big Data, investing, Macro Economic trends, Business models, Strategy, State craft, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Oil's relationship with the macro economic environment
2019-10-11 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Business models, Strategy, Financial Crisis
Observations on how public opinion is shaped in the US
2019-10-09 • investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Culture, Strategy, State craft, Trade War, Financial Crisis, Geography
List of companies that have been heavily punished by macro economic trends to consider for purchase
2019-10-08 • Macro Economic trends, Business models, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Thoughts on excessive use of leverage
2019-10-08 • Startups, investing, Macro Economic trends, Venture Capital, Business models, Strategy, Financial Crisis
Launch Scale conference with Jason Calcanis Day 2
2019-10-08 • Startups, Venture Capital, Business models
Chat with Punit
2019-10-07 • Big Data, investing, Macro Economic trends, Venture Capital, Culture, Business models, Strategy
Book summary: The perfect weapon by David Sanger
2019-10-07 • Big Data, Strategy, State craft
Launch Scale conference with Jason Calcanis Day 1
2019-10-07 • Startups, Venture Capital, Business models
Observations of market behavior during the period of September leading up to October
2019-10-04 • Big Data, investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Chance, Trade War
Fluid dynamics within the markets
2019-09-30 • Big Data, investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Strategy, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Book summary: Invest with the Feds by Robert R Johnson, Gerald Jensen and Luis Garcia Feijoo
2019-09-28 • investing, Macro Economic trends
LA trip to visit Johnson
2019-09-28 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Business models, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Chats with Ilya on hedge funds
2019-09-23 • Big Data, investing, Macro Economic trends, Venture Capital, Chance, Business models, Strategy
Evening out watching Rambo, last blood
2019-09-22 • Deep Learning, negotiations, Big Data, investing, psychology, personal effectiveness, Macro Economic trends, Culture, Chance, Strategy, State craft
Chat with Yi
2019-09-18 • Startups, Big Data, Business models, Strategy
Patagonia’s brilliantly executed brand positioning
2019-09-15 • Marketing, psychology, Culture, Business models, Strategy
Key insights from mooncake festival at house of Jerry and Liza
2019-09-08 • Machine Learning, Big Data, investing, Macro Economic trends, Venture Capital, Culture, Business models, State craft, Trade War, Financial Crisis
David Letterman interview with Barack Obama
2019-09-06 • Macro Economic trends, Culture, Business models, State craft
The American Factory
2019-09-06 • Macro Economic trends, Culture, Business models, State craft, Geography
Book summary: Understanding big debt crisis by Ray Dalio
2019-09-05 • Macro Economic trends, State craft, Financial Crisis
Reasoning on more extreme weather patterns observed
2019-09-01 • Outdoors, Nature, Physics, Geography
Key insights from weekend with Jerry, Liza, Ada and Dan
2019-09-01 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Venture Capital, Culture, Business models, Strategy, State craft, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Escalating tension in Asia Pacific and how history tends to repeat itself
2019-08-28 • Macro Economic trends, State craft, Trade War
Reflections of erroneous trading over the past 48 hours
2019-08-27 • investing
Book summary: The Asian Financial Crisis by Shalendra Sharma
2019-08-24 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Developing country, Business models, State craft, Financial Crisis
Afternoon with Tomasso on the limitations of Artificial intelligence's application
2019-08-21 • Deep Learning, Big Data, investing, Macro Economic trends, Chance, Business models
Book summary: The Savings and Loan Crisis - Lessons from a regulatory failure
2019-08-20 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Business models, State craft, Financial Crisis
Why banks are trading at or below net book value
2019-08-20 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Business models, State craft, Financial Crisis
Book summary: Barbarians at the gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
2019-08-15 • investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Business models, Strategy
Key lessons from When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
2019-08-12 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Business models, Financial Crisis
Insights from evening with Wine and Jam session with Adriene and Dennis, Birthday party with Konstantine
2019-08-11 • Machine Learning, Startups, Big Data, investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Culture, Hardware
Insights from lunch with Andrew and Paul
2019-08-07 • psychology, Macro Economic trends, Culture, State craft
Macro economic extension to loss aversion reversion to mean trading methodology - Government versus Government scenario
2019-08-06 • Big Data, investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Chance, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Donald Trump's August 1st 2019 tweet on additional tariffs
2019-08-02 • negotiations, Big Data, investing, Macro Economic trends, State craft, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Federal Chairman Jerome Powell on 0.25% interest rate cuts
2019-08-01 • Big Data, investing, agriculture, Macro Economic trends, Developing country, Culture, Business models, State craft, Trade War
Manias, Panics and Crashes - balance of trade mechanism
2019-07-30 • Macro Economic trends, Developing country, Business models, State craft, Financial Crisis
Book summary - The Bank Credit Analysis Handbook by Jonathan Golin and Philippe Delhaise
2019-07-25 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Business models, State craft, Financial Crisis
Thoughts on avoiding the greater fool theory
2019-07-24 • Startups, investing, Marketing, psychology, personal effectiveness, Macro Economic trends, Venture Capital, Business models, Strategy
The case for hastening the replacement of workers with AI
2019-07-24 • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, health, futurism, Macro Economic trends, State craft
Mushroom growing documentation
2019-07-20 • health, mushrooms, agriculture, Outdoors
Learnings on enterprise sales - SVB and SalesForce workshop
2019-07-19 • Startups, personal effectiveness, Venture Capital, Business models, Strategy
Insights from dinner with Brian and Jason
2019-07-19 • Startups, investing, Venture Capital, Business models
Summary of readings and conversations for the week
2019-07-15 • Machine Learning, Big Data, Macro Economic trends, Venture Capital, Culture, State craft, Trade War
Differences between decision making and execution
2019-07-13 • psychology, personal effectiveness
Insights from Josh
2019-07-12 • Big Data, Business models
Key highlights of Fed Chair Jerome Powell's testification before the congress
2019-07-11 • Big Data, Macro Economic trends, State craft
Book summary AI super-powers, China, silicon valley and the new world order by Kai Fu Lee
2019-07-10 • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, futurism, Startups, Big Data, Macro Economic trends, Venture Capital, Culture, Business models, Strategy, State craft, Trade War
Thoughts on systemic risk
2019-07-10 • Big Data, Macro Economic trends, Strategy
How banks and the Federal reserve / central bank works
2019-07-07 • investing, Business models
ETFs disrupts hedge funds and democratizes playing field for individuals while driving demand for alternate data
2019-07-01 • Big Data, Macro Economic trends, Venture Capital, Business models
Behavior that promotes good investment returns
2019-07-01 • Spiritual Training, investing, psychology, personal effectiveness
Mark Zuckerberg chats with Yuval Noah Harrai on the Future of AI
2019-07-01 • Deep Learning, futurism, Startups, Big Data, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Culture, Business models, Strategy, State craft
Trends associated with GetData.IO
2019-06-29 • Machine Learning, Big Data, investing, Marketing, Macro Economic trends, Business models, Strategy
Analysis of the Facebook Libra Token
2019-06-27 • investing, Macro Economic trends, BlockChain, Developing country, Business models, State craft
Book summary - Range
2019-06-20 • Startups, Culture, Business models
20190619 - Federal reserve chairman Powell’s speech
2019-06-20 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Developing country, State craft
Book summary - the wealth of nations
2019-06-20 • Macro Economic trends, State craft
Reflections on the subject of economics
2019-06-19 • Macro Economic trends, Developing country, Culture, Strategy, State craft, Trade War
Effects of Trump administration and Federal Reserve fiscal policy on the S&P index
2019-06-18 • investing, Macro Economic trends, State craft, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Non-purchase of DOMO despite 10% dip
2019-06-17 • Startups, investing, Macro Economic trends
Guo Jia’s Ten Advantage Framework
2019-06-17 • Macro Economic trends, Strategy, State craft, Trade War
Loss aversion reversion to mean exit strategy
2019-06-11 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Trade War
Macro-economics negative spiral leading indicator
2019-06-10 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Financial Crisis
June 4th 2019 US/China trade war loss aversion reversion to mean pattern
2019-06-05 • investing, Macro Economic trends, State craft, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Learnings on shorting the market during the May 2019 US/China Trade war
2019-05-30 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Financial Crisis
Key take aways from The Governance of China by Xi JinPing
2019-05-28 • Macro Economic trends, Developing country, Culture, State craft
Prediction on US/China Trade war to be verified in 2021
2019-05-28 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Key takeaway from Great Again by Donald Trump
2019-05-26 • negotiations, Macro Economic trends, Culture, Strategy, State craft, Trade War
The mushroom at the end of the world
2019-05-25 • Spiritual Training, mushrooms, agriculture, psychology, Macro Economic trends
Book summary - The Signal and the noise
2019-05-25 • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Chance
Book summary: Everybody lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
2019-05-25 • Deep Learning, Big Data, investing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Culture, Chance, Business models
Loss aversion reversion to mean anti pattern
2019-05-23 • investing
Post 2019 US/China Trade War companies for consideration
2019-05-23 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Trade War
Insights from Ilya
2019-05-20 • investing
Learnings from the market today
2019-05-17 • investing
Insights from dinner with Josh
2019-05-16 • Machine Learning, Big Data, Macro Economic trends, Business models, Strategy
Key trading mistakes during execution
2019-05-16 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Trade War
3rd June post effects of 13th May 2019 US/China Trade war on US markets
2019-05-15 • Big Data, investing, Macro Economic trends, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Macro economic analysis on US/China 2018/2019 Trade war
2019-05-14 • investing, Macro Economic trends, State craft, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Book Summary: Permission Marketing by Seth Godin
2019-05-12 • Marketing
Book summary: The essential Drucker
2019-05-12 • Startups, Marketing, personal effectiveness, Business models, Strategy
Donald Trump’s 3rd May 2019 trade war tweets on stock market index around the world
2019-05-07 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Chance, Trade War, Financial Crisis
Book summary: The Fate of Rome
2019-05-04 • agriculture, Macro Economic trends, Developing country, Culture, Chance, State craft
Insights from Klaren’s birthday
2019-04-29 • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Startups, Big Data, Marketing, Business models, Strategy
Insights from dinner with Yuan
2019-04-27 • Startups, Macro Economic trends, Venture Capital, Culture, Business models, State craft
Tesla autonomy
2019-04-23 • Machine Learning, Startups, Big Data, Venture Capital, Business models
Blitzscaling with Microsoft
2019-04-22 • Startups, Business models, Strategy, State craft
Societal comparison between our current day and age versus the era of communism's rise
2019-04-22 • Startups, Macro Economic trends, Culture, Business models, State craft
Book summary: The Nature of Technology
2019-04-19 • Startups, Business models
Insights from lunch with Manish and Ketan
2019-04-18 • Startups, investing, Business models, Strategy
Insights from Monday lunch
2019-04-17 • Startups, psychology
SPY - SnP index during Dec 2018 market pull back
2019-04-17 • investing, Trade War
Book summary: George Orwell's 1984
2019-04-15 • psychology, Culture, Strategy, State craft
Insights from the week
2019-04-13 • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, agriculture, Marketing, Macro Economic trends, Business models
UX decision making matrix
2019-04-13 • Design
Inputs from Ilya on loss aversion and reversion to mean trading strategy
2019-04-08 • investing
Insights on managing Big Data from meet up with Dean and Ved
2019-04-05 • Machine Learning, Startups, Big Data, personal effectiveness, Venture Capital, Business models
Coaching for founders
2019-04-03 • negotiations, Startups, psychology
Book summary: Your First 100
2019-04-03 • Startups, Marketing, psychology, Strategy
Book summary: Thinking in Bets
2019-03-26 • health, Startups, investing, psychology, personal effectiveness, Chance, Strategy
Insights from visit to far west fungi farm
2019-03-26 • Machine Learning, Big Data, mushrooms, agriculture, Chance
Hypothesis on timing entry position into loss aversion
2019-03-26 • investing, psychology
Fishing at candlestick recreational park
2019-03-21 • health, Chance, Outdoors
Insight from dinner with Sujit
2019-03-21 • Machine Learning, Startups, personal effectiveness, Macro Economic trends
Insights from house party at Qyunh's
2019-03-17 • Startups, BlockChain, Business models
Book summary: Quantitative momentum
2019-03-16 • investing
Book summary: swing trading for dummies
2019-03-16 • investing
Book Summary: Lost and Founder
2019-03-14 • biographies, Startups, Marketing, psychology, Venture Capital, Culture, Business models, Strategy
Reflections on communicating with your users via email
2019-03-09 • Startups, Spiritual Training, Marketing, psychology, personal effectiveness
Book Summary: Contagious
2019-03-05 • Marketing, psychology, Culture, Business models
Reflections on organizational observations
2019-02-22 • health, exercise, Startups, agriculture, Agile, Culture, Business models
Key take aways from Trust me I am lying
2019-02-20 • biographies, Marketing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Culture, Business models, Strategy
Key take aways from the Blockchain revolution
2019-02-20 • futurism, Startups, Macro Economic trends, BlockChain, Culture, Business models
Reflections on maximizing output with limited resources
2019-02-14 • Startups, Spiritual Training, psychology, personal effectiveness, Strategy
Key take aways from Exit Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors
2019-02-13 • negotiations, investing, Venture Capital, Business models
Insights from party at Ilya's place
2019-02-10 • investing, Venture Capital
Understanding cognitive biases is important for startups
2019-02-02 • negotiations, Startups, Marketing, psychology
MongoDB versus Amazon
2019-02-01 • investing
Key take aways from the guide to a good life
2019-02-01 • psychology, personal effectiveness, Culture, State craft
Reflections for the morning
2019-01-27 • health, Spiritual Training, psychology, personal effectiveness
Key take aways from California Mushrooms, the comprehensive identification guide
2019-01-23 • mushrooms
Key take way from the Truth Machine, Michael J.Casey
2019-01-19 • Startups, Macro Economic trends, Business models
Highlights from The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku
2019-01-19 • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, futurism
Key observations of Chinese One Belt Road Initiative in Africa
2019-01-18 • Macro Economic trends, Developing country, Culture, State craft
Navigating the trough of sorrow
2019-01-13 • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, negotiations, biographies, health, futurism, Startups, Big Data, Spiritual Training, psychology, personal effectiveness, Venture Capital, Chance, Business models, Strategy

2018 (224 posts)

Symbiotic relationships between man and other species
2018-12-26 • agriculture, Macro Economic trends, Developing country
Take away from Johnson on wealth
2018-12-13 • futurism, Startups, psychology, personal effectiveness, Business models
Key observations in Ethiopia
2018-12-13 • agriculture, Macro Economic trends, Developing country, State craft
Key learnings: Les Capital, Karl Marx
2018-12-11 • Macro Economic trends
Key learnings: The discipline of market leaders
2018-12-11 • Uncategorized
Reflections on self mastery
2018-12-09 • negotiations, Startups, Spiritual Training, psychology, personal effectiveness, Developing country, State craft
Observations in Sudan
2018-12-08 • Macro Economic trends, Developing country, Culture, State craft
Key aways from Anabasis, Xenophon
2018-12-02 • negotiations, psychology, personal effectiveness, Macro Economic trends, Chance, Strategy
Key take aways from Mien Kampf, Adolf Hitler
2018-12-02 • Macro Economic trends, Developing country, State craft
The upcoming shift in job landscape
2018-11-30 • Uncategorized
Observed similarities in plant species
2018-11-29 • Uncategorized
Deep penetration of Chinese in Egypt
2018-11-29 • Uncategorized, Marketing, Macro Economic trends
thoughts on digital nomadism
2018-11-27 • Startups, Developing country
Analysis of Arabic street tout’s aggressive sales technique
2018-11-22 • Uncategorized
Reflections on traffic in cities
2018-11-20 • Culture
Observed similarities between two semi-normadic settlements
2018-11-18 • Culture
Analysis of Saudi Arabia's revenue model disruption and technology trends within Jordan
2018-11-18 • Startups, Marketing, psychology, Macro Economic trends, Developing country, Culture, Business models
Application of binary search within the desert of Wadi rum
2018-11-18 • personal effectiveness
Reflections in the Judea desert
2018-11-17 • Spiritual Training, Culture, Chance
Facebook is now a phase 3 social network
2018-11-17 • Startups, Macro Economic trends
Reflections on constructing virtuous cycles applications with higher order heuristics
2018-11-13 • Spiritual Training, psychology, personal effectiveness
Observation on Israel and the Palestinian states
2018-11-12 • Macro Economic trends, Developing country, Culture
Israel Hostels network - acquisition and engagement loops
2018-11-12 • Business models
Reflections on King Herod’s architectural feats
2018-11-12 • Startups, Developing country
Chance morning encounters in Temple Mount
2018-11-11 • Chance
Reflections on the Dead Sea
2018-11-11 • Chance
Technology gestation and social norming in Jerusalem
2018-11-08 • Startups, Culture
The proper order of things - running of a back packers
2018-11-08 • Startups, Culture
Mobike and Bird's #GrowthHack tear down in Tel Aviv
2018-11-06 • Startups, Marketing
Benchmarking customer success
2018-11-04 • Startups
Reflections on decentralized file storage
2018-11-02 • Big Data
Necessity breeds innovation
2018-11-02 • Startups, Macro Economic trends, Developing country
Insights from Val of Totango
2018-11-02 • Startups, Marketing, psychology
Insights from Hannes
2018-11-01 • Startups, investing, Marketing, Venture Capital
Key insights for Jerry's birthday party
2018-11-01 • Startups, investing, Venture Capital
Insights from conversations with Ilya
2018-10-29 • investing, Macro Economic trends
Conversation with house mate SouJun on Northern and Southern Chinese eating habits
2018-10-29 • health
Book summary - what got you here won't get you there
2018-10-26 • Startups, personal effectiveness
Reflections for the evening on learning
2018-10-26 • Spiritual Training, psychology, personal effectiveness
Book summary - Fault lines
2018-10-26 • Macro Economic trends
Book summary - The Choice
2018-10-19 • personal effectiveness
Book summary - the goal
2018-10-19 • Startups, personal effectiveness, Agile
learning across diverse areas as a continued source of insight
2018-10-18 • Startups, personal effectiveness
Insights from Tim
2018-10-13 • Design
Reflections for the evening on return on capital
2018-10-12 • Startups, Spiritual Training, investing, personal effectiveness
For latter reference
2018-10-07 • Startups, investing, Venture Capital
Practical advise from mum on how to grow your business
2018-10-05 • Startups, personal effectiveness
Ray Dalio: Beating the stock market by learning history
2018-10-05 • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Startups, Big Data, investing, Macro Economic trends, Venture Capital
Forum - Ten years after Lehman brother’s bankruptcy: where are we now and what lies ahead
2018-10-04 • investing, Macro Economic trends, Venture Capital
Reflections for the evening
2018-10-04 • Spiritual Training
Book summary: Creative capital
2018-09-30 • biographies, Startups, investing, Venture Capital
On similarities between organizations and organisms
2018-09-24 • health, Startups, agriculture, Macro Economic trends
Reflections for the morning
2018-09-24 • Startups, personal effectiveness
Reflections for the afternoon
2018-09-20 • Spiritual Training
Insights from lunch with Jamie
2018-09-19 • health, Startups, Spiritual Training, psychology, Macro Economic trends
Insights from drinks with Charles Wu
2018-09-19 • Startups, investing, Marketing, Macro Economic trends, Agile
Learning the fundamentals of design
2018-09-16 • Uncategorized
Ideation process
2018-09-14 • Design, Startups, Marketing, psychology, Agile
Morning reflections on marketing and story telling
2018-09-12 • Startups, Marketing
Quick summary of Facebook early days
2018-09-12 • biographies, Startups
On fund raising
2018-09-11 • Startups, investing, personal effectiveness
Reflections for the afternoon
2018-09-11 • Machine Learning, Startups, Big Data
Reflection this morning on profiles
2018-09-09 • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, health, Startups, Spiritual Training, psychology, personal effectiveness
Reflections for the evening
2018-09-07 • health, psychology
Book summary: the success equation
2018-09-06 • Big Data, investing, personal effectiveness
Humor of the day
2018-09-04 • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Startups, Big Data
Tim on User centric design
2018-08-29 • Design, Startups, Marketing, Agile
Casey Winter on growth, market places and content loops
2018-08-29 • Startups, Marketing
Tim on doing manual sentiment analysis
2018-08-27 • Startups, psychology
Reflections for the morning
2018-08-27 • Startups, Spiritual Training, agriculture, personal effectiveness
Insights from Vibhu
2018-08-25 • Design, Startups, Marketing
Summary of learnings from Reeds and Oaks
2018-08-25 • personal effectiveness
Insights from Steven
2018-08-20 • Startups, Macro Economic trends
Learnings from QiXiang, Vivian and Angelina Wu
2018-08-20 • Startups, Macro Economic trends
Learnings from trip to Taiwan and missing the flight
2018-08-17 • personal effectiveness
Insights for one on ones with Friend said in Singapore
2018-08-12 • Startups, Big Data, Marketing
Learnings from Patrick and Brian on building a SAAS based startup targeting other startups
2018-08-10 • Startups, Marketing
Reflections for the morning
2018-08-10 • Uncategorized
Insights from visit to Singapore
2018-08-06 • Startups, Marketing
Kenji and Johnson - Learnings in trading patterns
2018-08-05 • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Startups, Big Data, investing, Marketing
Reforge: Dealing with friction
2018-07-27 • Startups, psychology
Friday morning coincidence
2018-07-27 • biographies, health, Startups, Spiritual Training, psychology, personal effectiveness
Loss aversion and reversion to mean earnings missed patterns
2018-07-26 • Big Data, investing
Key takeaways from dinner with Jerry and Johnson at the Rosewood hotel
2018-07-21 • Startups, investing, Marketing, psychology, personal effectiveness
A nice well-contained machine learning project
2018-07-17 • Machine Learning
A great startup ideas
2018-07-17 • Uncategorized
Signals on Leadership
2018-07-14 • Uncategorized
Key takeaway from \"Connected\" by Nicholas A. Christakis
2018-07-11 • health, Startups, psychology
Book summary - The inmates are running the asylum
2018-07-09 • Uncategorized
Key takeaways from dinner with Josh
2018-07-06 • Machine Learning, Startups
An afternoon with writers Terry Books and Tad Williams
2018-07-01 • Uncategorized
Takeaways from conversations observed for the week
2018-06-30 • negotiations, Design, Startups, Marketing, psychology
Book summary: The Buyer Persona
2018-06-30 • Marketing, psychology
Key takeaways from discussions with Ved and observations around me during the day
2018-06-27 • Deep Learning, biographies, Spiritual Training, Marketing, psychology
Phases of starting up a new product
2018-06-27 • Startups, psychology
Key take aways from Permission Marketing by Seth Godin
2018-06-26 • Marketing
Key take aways from Purple Cow by Seth Godin
2018-06-26 • Marketing
Steve Jobs in between the lines on user research and market trends
2018-06-23 • biographies, Startups, Marketing
And the trends does a sharp turn
2018-06-22 • Uncategorized
The surest cure to all forms of narrative fallacy
2018-06-22 • Uncategorized
Key takeaways from presentation by Hannes
2018-06-21 • Uncategorized
Reflections on bad trades - the narrative fallacy or apophenia
2018-06-20 • exercise, Spiritual Training, investing
The Web is a giant graph database.
2018-06-20 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the evening
2018-06-19 • Uncategorized
Reflections on the decentralized multi-sided market place - GetData.IO
2018-06-18 • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, futurism, Startups, Big Data, investing
Key take aways from dinner with Ahbinav and Ayush
2018-06-16 • Uncategorized
Important lessons on SEO
2018-06-16 • Uncategorized
Knowing what you want and optimizing for that
2018-06-15 • health, Spiritual Training
Evening reflections on the importance of story telling
2018-06-15 • Deep Learning, negotiations, Startups, investing
Keys take aways from \"Be Slightly Evil\
2018-06-14 • negotiations, Startups, Spiritual Training
Key take aways from \"Gut Feelings\
2018-06-14 • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, health
Learnings from chat with Ved
2018-06-09 • Startups
Everyone Hates Marketers: price intelligently
2018-06-08 • Uncategorized
Book Summary - Predictably irrational
2018-06-07 • Uncategorized
Everyone hates marketeers: how to use emotional targeting
2018-06-05 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the afternoon
2018-06-02 • Uncategorized
Signals from the network
2018-06-02 • Uncategorized
Lessons on UX
2018-05-31 • Uncategorized
Afternoon chat with Andrew
2018-05-31 • Uncategorized
Dinner chat with Ahbinav
2018-05-31 • Uncategorized
Book Summary - Barking up the wrong tree
2018-05-30 • Uncategorized
Chat with Sebastian on Marketing
2018-05-29 • Uncategorized
Key point from everyone hates marketers
2018-05-29 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the evening
2018-05-25 • Uncategorized
Essentialism revisted
2018-05-24 • Uncategorized
Pricing page assessment session with Kaitlyn from PriceIntelligently
2018-05-23 • Uncategorized
Insight for the morning
2018-05-21 • Uncategorized
Dinner with Jerry and Liza
2018-05-21 • Uncategorized
Summary: how to create 100% accurate buyer persona
2018-05-21 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the morning
2018-05-19 • Uncategorized
Key take always from Ahbinav
2018-05-19 • Uncategorized
ARPU dead zone
2018-05-19 • Uncategorized
Keystone skill sets to build in your adult life
2018-05-19 • Uncategorized
Insight for the evening
2018-05-18 • Uncategorized
Resource recommendations from Tim on understanding design UI/UX
2018-05-18 • Uncategorized
Book summaries - Vertical Farming
2018-05-17 • agriculture
Book summary - finite and infinite games
2018-05-17 • Uncategorized
Discussions with Regina on Go To Market expansion
2018-05-16 • Startups
Observation of self
2018-05-16 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the evening
2018-05-15 • Uncategorized
Feedback on investment strategy by Ilya
2018-05-14 • Uncategorized
TT on tokens
2018-05-11 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the evening
2018-05-11 • Uncategorized
Ilya on bubbles
2018-05-11 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: Extreme Productivity
2018-05-09 • Uncategorized
Thoughts on SAAS based solutions
2018-05-05 • Uncategorized
M1 versus MyRepublic - 6th July 2017
2018-05-04 • Uncategorized, investing
Match versus Facebook - 1st May 2018
2018-05-04 • Uncategorized
On Google versus Amazon
2018-05-04 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the morning
2018-05-04 • Uncategorized
Netflix Earnings miss - 17th Oct 2017
2018-05-03 • Uncategorized
Discussions with Regina
2018-05-03 • Uncategorized
LinkedIn missing earnings expectations for 4th straight quarter
2018-05-03 • Uncategorized
Spotify earnings miss - 20180502
2018-05-03 • Uncategorized
Insight for the afternoon
2018-05-02 • Uncategorized
Dinner with Wally - Product Narrative
2018-05-02 • Uncategorized
Sitting session with Adi
2018-05-02 • Uncategorized
Learnings about markets from lunch with Richard
2018-05-01 • Uncategorized
Reminder to self
2018-05-01 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the evening
2018-04-30 • Uncategorized
Insight on big tech search inclinations
2018-04-27 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: The Age of Spiritual Machines
2018-04-26 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: White Trash
2018-04-26 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the morning
2018-04-26 • Uncategorized
Thought of the day
2018-04-25 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the morning
2018-04-24 • Uncategorized
List of endorphins triggers
2018-04-23 • Uncategorized
Random thoughts for the morning
2018-04-22 • Uncategorized
Summary of thoughts on chat with Tim
2018-04-21 • Uncategorized
Dinner with Allison
2018-04-20 • Uncategorized
For latter reference
2018-04-19 • Uncategorized
Book summary - the coming jobs war
2018-04-18 • Uncategorized
Book Summary - The new division of labor
2018-04-18 • Uncategorized
For latter references
2018-04-18 • Uncategorized
Crisis to study
2018-04-18 • Uncategorized
Feedbacks on being decisive
2018-04-16 • Uncategorized
Dinner with Rob and Crystal
2018-04-15 • Uncategorized
Reflections on foraging
2018-04-14 • Uncategorized
Insights for the day
2018-04-11 • Uncategorized
Book Summary - Mycelium running
2018-04-05 • mushrooms, agriculture
Lessons from Saudi Arabia's 2014-2015 flooding of market
2018-04-05 • investing
Book Summary - The second machine age
2018-04-05 • Uncategorized
Tesla self driving cars casualty incident March 2018
2018-04-03 • investing
Trading Strategy which capitalizes on loss aversion triggered off by hyper media coverage
2018-04-03 • investing
Data breach case study - Facebook (March 2018)
2018-04-03 • investing
Book Summary - The Dream Machine
2018-03-28 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: Machine Platform Crowd
2018-03-28 • Uncategorized
Speculations for the afternoon
2018-03-27 • Uncategorized
Data breach case study - Equifax (September 2017)
2018-03-26 • investing
Thoughts from Sunday
2018-03-26 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the evening
2018-03-25 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the evening
2018-03-24 • Uncategorized
Dinner with Wally
2018-03-22 • Uncategorized
Dinner discussions with Sujit
2018-03-21 • Uncategorized
Lunch time discussion with Bilal and Viraj
2018-03-21 • Uncategorized
Insight for the morning
2018-03-17 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the morning
2018-03-15 • Uncategorized
The difference between White Paper, Case Studies and eBook
2018-03-15 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: Early retirement extreme
2018-03-14 • Uncategorized
Movie Summary: Cold War 2
2018-03-12 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the morning on Money
2018-03-12 • Uncategorized
Summary: Freakonomics - Here’s Why All Your Projects Are Always Late — and What to Do About It
2018-03-12 • Uncategorized
Summary: Freakonomics - Does early education come way too late
2018-03-11 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the afternoon on public data
2018-03-11 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the evening
2018-03-09 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: My Life in Advertising & Scientific Advertising
2018-03-07 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: The One-Straw Revolution
2018-03-07 • Uncategorized
Notes of weekend with Johnson
2018-03-05 • Uncategorized
Book Summary - Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
2018-02-27 • Uncategorized
On conscious iterations
2018-02-27 • Uncategorized
Book Summary - Drive, Daniel Pink
2018-02-27 • Uncategorized
Book Summary - Strengths Finder 2.0
2018-02-27 • Uncategorized
Book summary: Why the West Rules for now
2018-02-14 • Uncategorized
Morning reflection
2018-02-08 • Uncategorized
Book summary: Principles, Ray Dalio
2018-02-07 • Uncategorized
Notes on chat with Vibhu 20180201
2018-02-07 • Uncategorized
Book summary: Pragma
2018-01-30 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: Altered Traits
2018-01-30 • Uncategorized
Learnings from session with Ved - 20180129
2018-01-30 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the day
2018-01-27 • Uncategorized
Book summary: The war for jobs
2018-01-19 • Uncategorized
Book summary: The platform revolution
2018-01-17 • Uncategorized
Dinner with Wally
2018-01-16 • Uncategorized
Summary of learnings into the subject of Mindfulness
2018-01-06 • Uncategorized

2017 (131 posts)

Lessons from Johnson
2017-12-16 • Uncategorized
Insights for the day
2017-12-15 • Uncategorized
Farming insights: Will and Dean
2017-12-10 • Uncategorized
Evening with Josh 20171206
2017-12-06 • Uncategorized
Insight from Vibhu 20171204
2017-12-06 • Uncategorized
Lessons from Rochester
2017-11-25 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: The hacking of the American Mind
2017-11-14 • Uncategorized
Book summary: the springboard
2017-11-14 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: Made to Stick
2017-10-30 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: hacking human nature for good
2017-10-30 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the morning
2017-10-25 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: Mountains Beyond Mountains
2017-10-22 • Uncategorized
Talk: Excellence under uncertainty by Paul Rosania July 19th 2017
2017-10-21 • Uncategorized
Random thought for the day
2017-10-21 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: The Miracle of Mindfulness
2017-10-21 • Uncategorized
Augmented Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence
2017-10-21 • Uncategorized
Conversations with Chris
2017-10-20 • Uncategorized
Recollections for the day
2017-10-18 • Uncategorized
Observation: Words and Icons
2017-10-08 • Uncategorized
Key insight from evening with Brian
2017-10-05 • Uncategorized
Equifax: Purchasing process of Equifax position
2017-10-03 • Uncategorized
Key insight: on how to effectively stay in touch
2017-09-27 • Uncategorized
Reflections on one to one communication
2017-09-26 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: Excellent Sheep
2017-09-24 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: HBR 10 Must Reads
2017-09-23 • Uncategorized
Saturday morning: home buyer seminar
2017-09-23 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: The HP way
2017-09-23 • Uncategorized
Book: The Hacking of the American Mind
2017-09-23 • Uncategorized
The importance of context and words
2017-09-18 • Uncategorized
On Sailing
2017-09-18 • Uncategorized
Book: The SpringBoard - how storytelling ignites action in knowledge era organization
2017-09-18 • Uncategorized
Thursday afternoon reflections on the power of stories
2017-09-14 • Uncategorized
Recollections on empathy, how to treat others
2017-09-14 • Uncategorized
Lesson of negotiating the fees
2017-09-14 • Uncategorized
Number 1 thing to avoid when managing products
2017-09-13 • Uncategorized
Advice from Dad on customer retention
2017-09-12 • Uncategorized
Sunday afternoon reflection: Method acting and the heart of the matter
2017-09-11 • Uncategorized
Observation on Saturday
2017-09-10 • Uncategorized
Tuesday morning insight
2017-08-22 • Uncategorized
Sunday morning usability observation
2017-08-21 • Uncategorized
Sunday morning reflections
2017-08-20 • Uncategorized
Quote for the day
2017-08-08 • Uncategorized
Reflections on a Sunday morning
2017-08-06 • Uncategorized
Book Summary - High Output Management
2017-07-30 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the weekend
2017-07-24 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: Hooked
2017-07-09 • Design, Startups
Book Summary: The Art of Happiness
2017-07-09 • Spiritual Training
Edx.Org: University of British Columbia, Introduction to Marketing
2017-06-28 • Uncategorized
Science of friendship - 20170607
2017-06-25 • Uncategorized
Book Summary - Conscious business
2017-06-25 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: How will you measure your life?
2017-06-25 • Uncategorized
Reflections on Saturday morning
2017-06-24 • Uncategorized
Blitzscaling Lesson 20 - recap
2017-06-07 • Uncategorized
Blitzscaling Lesson 17 - Marissa Meyer, Yahoo and Google
2017-06-03 • Uncategorized
Blitzscaling 18 - AirBnb
2017-06-02 • Uncategorized
How to value early stage startups - Peter Faust
2017-05-24 • Uncategorized
Blitzscaling Lesson 19 - Jeff Weiner ,
2017-05-22 • Startups
Blitzscaling Lesson 16 - Reed Hastings, NetFlix
2017-05-20 • Uncategorized
Blitzscaling Lesson 13 - YouTube
2017-05-18 • Uncategorized
Blitzscaling Lesson 14 - Theranos
2017-05-18 • Uncategorized
Reflections on decisions and outcomes
2017-05-18 • Uncategorized
Blitzscaling Lesson 15 - VMWare enterprise monetization model
2017-05-18 • Uncategorized
BlitzScaling Lesson 7 - Minted
2017-05-18 • Uncategorized
Blitzscaling Lesson 12 - NextDoor
2017-05-17 • Uncategorized
BlitzScaling Lesson 11 - Stripe
2017-05-15 • Uncategorized
Biltzscaling lesson 4 - Ann Miura-Ko
2017-05-11 • Uncategorized
Apache data streaming project - NIFI & MINIFI
2017-05-11 • Big Data
Brian Rothenberg - Building market places from zero to billions
2017-05-11 • Uncategorized, Machine Learning, Startups, Big Data
Blitzscaling Lesson 3
2017-05-11 • Uncategorized
Blitzscaling lesson 5 - Mozilla
2017-05-11 • Uncategorized, Startups
Blitzscale lesson 2: Sam Altman
2017-05-09 • Startups
Blitzscaling Lesson 1: highlights - Reid Hoffman
2017-05-09 • Startups
Reflections for the evening
2017-05-01 • Uncategorized
Stages of competition - how much you get paid
2017-05-01 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: Simple and Usable Web, Mobile and Interaction Design
2017-04-30 • Design
Book Summary: Titan - The life of John D. Rockefeller
2017-04-29 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: The driver in the driverless car
2017-04-29 • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, health, futurism
Book Summary: The One-Minute Workout
2017-04-29 • health, interval training, exercise
Snippet of insight from Ved
2017-04-27 • Uncategorized
Book summary: Secrets of Power Negotiation
2017-04-25 • negotiations
Book Summary: Influence without Authority
2017-04-25 • Uncategorized
Synthesized key learnings from conversations with Fatima
2017-04-15 • Uncategorized
Perception
2017-04-13 • Uncategorized
Deep learning and Machine Learning resources
2017-04-11 • Uncategorized, Machine Learning, Deep Learning
Miyamoto Musashi: 21 Precepts of the way of walking alone
2017-04-09 • Uncategorized
Batch processing of food
2017-04-08 • Uncategorized
Summary: Sam Altman & Dustin Moskovitz - How and why to startup a Startup summaries
2017-04-08 • Uncategorized
book summary: Machina by Sebastian Marshal
2017-04-06 • Uncategorized
A disturbing vision
2017-04-02 • Uncategorized
Testaments from Ieyasu Tokugawa
2017-03-31 • Uncategorized
Ved on Vipassana practice
2017-03-28 • Uncategorized
Russian Ridge - reality versus abstract interpretation.
2017-03-26 • Uncategorized
Levels of listening
2017-03-25 • Uncategorized
Random thought: coming up with solutions to a problem
2017-03-24 • Uncategorized
Guidelines for scaling human operations
2017-03-18 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: Homo Deus
2017-03-18 • Uncategorized
Book Summary: MindSet
2017-03-12 • Uncategorized
Lesson on resource allocation
2017-03-08 • Uncategorized
Reflections on conversation on the topic of freedom
2017-03-08 • Uncategorized
Choosing shoes
2017-03-04 • Uncategorized
On choosing house
2017-03-04 • Uncategorized
Reflections on Tech companies media coverage
2017-03-04 • Uncategorized
An evening with David Gerard - The Mentalist
2017-02-27 • Uncategorized
Lecture by Joanne Cook on Mindfulness
2017-02-26 • Uncategorized
Book summary: Nelson Mandela - the long walk to freedom
2017-02-25 • negotiations, biographies
Learnings: See the tree and the forest
2017-02-25 • Uncategorized
You are and become what you read and who you associate with
2017-02-25 • Uncategorized
Insights: Native mobile versus web browser insight
2017-02-25 • Uncategorized
Lessons on Product Strategy
2017-02-17 • Uncategorized
Trends in Artificial Intelligence
2017-02-17 • Uncategorized
Key skill set required to build a company
2017-02-17 • Uncategorized
On seeking to be liked
2017-02-14 • Uncategorized
Book: essentialism
2017-02-10 • Uncategorized
Business Model Generation
2017-02-09 • Uncategorized
Learnings on Corporate Strategy
2017-02-09 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the evening
2017-02-09 • Uncategorized
Book summary: Start with No
2017-02-07 • negotiations
Summary: Difficult Conversations
2017-01-29 • negotiations
Summary: the ego is the enemy
2017-01-26 • Uncategorized
Notes on Marcus Arelius Meditations
2017-01-26 • Uncategorized
From Bilal and Ketan
2017-01-21 • Uncategorized
Lesson from Johnson on Investments in IPO and Asian stock markets
2017-01-21 • Uncategorized
Summary: Berkshire Hathaway letters to shareholders 1965-2015
2017-01-21 • Uncategorized
Learnings from negotiations with car dealer
2017-01-17 • Uncategorized
Digital experiment observation
2017-01-16 • Uncategorized
Book review: Super intelligence
2017-01-14 • Uncategorized
Axiom: 3 responsibilities of a leader
2017-01-14 • Uncategorized
From Tim: on china and talent pool
2017-01-10 • Uncategorized
From Peter: on Trump, US and China
2017-01-10 • Uncategorized
Seafood Aglio Olio Spaghetti
2017-01-08 • Uncategorized
Book summary: Who owns the future
2017-01-04 • Uncategorized

2016 (33 posts)

Investing tactics learned from friends
2016-12-30 • Uncategorized
Empathy and product thinking - anxiety
2016-12-28 • Uncategorized
Book summary: The age of the unthinkable
2016-12-25 • Uncategorized
Summary: The startup of you
2016-12-12 • Uncategorized
Zen in Handwriting
2016-12-12 • Uncategorized
Insecurities.
2016-12-08 • Uncategorized
Gateless - mind training
2016-12-04 • Uncategorized
Progression
2016-12-03 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the evening
2016-12-03 • Uncategorized
LAX transit
2016-11-24 • Uncategorized
Elon Musk Video Summary
2016-11-24 • Uncategorized
Book summary: The Rock Warrior's way
2016-11-24 • Uncategorized
Birthday chat with Brother
2016-11-21 • Uncategorized
Rinzai zen meditation
2016-11-20 • Uncategorized
On making progress
2016-11-18 • Uncategorized
Giving up on the hair
2016-11-16 • Uncategorized
Evening with Rob Schneider at the Palo Alto Oshmann Jewish Community center
2016-11-14 • Uncategorized
Golden Gate Bridge and beyond
2016-11-14 • Uncategorized
Angry people
2016-11-10 • Uncategorized
Active listening
2016-11-09 • Uncategorized
Reflections for the evening
2016-11-05 • Uncategorized
A softer form of influence
2016-11-03 • Uncategorized
Child raising
2016-11-03 • Uncategorized
On renounciation
2016-11-01 • Uncategorized
Dealing with awkward situations
2016-10-30 • Uncategorized
Uplifting the mind with Gratitude - the greatest form of influence
2016-10-29 • Uncategorized
Insidiousness and self-worth
2016-10-26 • Uncategorized
Avoiding the use of why
2016-10-26 • Uncategorized
Reflections - 23rd Oct 2016
2016-10-24 • Uncategorized
on opportunities and true north
2016-10-24 • Uncategorized
On visibility into context
2016-10-24 • Uncategorized
Reflections - Oct 22nd 2016
2016-10-23 • Uncategorized
Captive usability study on Patagonia.com's online shopping experience
2016-02-22 • Uncategorized

2012 (4 posts)

Creative life
2012-09-17 • Uncategorized
Random thoughts on a chilled out Sunday evening
2012-07-02 • Uncategorized
Pondering of things
2012-05-17 • Uncategorized
A utility perspective
2012-03-31 • Uncategorized

2011 (28 posts)

Random thoughts on a Monday afternoon after Christmas
2011-12-26 • Uncategorized
Monsoon December
2011-11-28 • Uncategorized
Getting a feel of the general state of things through observation of the minute
2011-09-08 • Uncategorized
I am...
2011-08-15 • Uncategorized
Being is an annoying state of affair
2011-07-10 • Uncategorized
A cosmic tidal wave
2011-07-08 • Uncategorized
Bringing the operating process of the company one step further
2011-06-30 • Uncategorized
Professionalism and profitability
2011-06-26 • Uncategorized
Hybrid loss leader strategy and the law of scarcity.
2011-06-24 • Uncategorized
More thoughts on the scaling up of business volume
2011-06-05 • Uncategorized
My reflection on the bus
2011-05-18 • Uncategorized
On profitability and the qualification of prospects
2011-05-13 • Uncategorized
Versions of the truth
2011-05-12 • Uncategorized
Organization of work plus some handicapping for fun
2011-05-04 • Uncategorized
On the use of mavericks and the task of delegation
2011-04-07 • Uncategorized
On learning
2011-03-31 • Uncategorized
Twitter and the Law of Entropy
2011-03-24 • Uncategorized
Crafting of my business plan
2011-03-23 • Uncategorized
Some important insights gained over the past few weeks
2011-03-22 • Uncategorized
Speculations of the future
2011-03-19 • Uncategorized
Realization of a significant truth
2011-03-06 • Uncategorized
Our evolution as a specie
2011-03-01 • Uncategorized
My contemplation on the Economics
2011-02-15 • Uncategorized
The angel on my right and the devil on my left
2011-02-12 • Uncategorized
A javascript decision on the use of jQuery on PHP Wordpress PHP (JSON, Raw HTML or Javascript)
2011-01-30 • Uncategorized
FUCK THE 5Cs!!! My personal reflections on the film \"Singapore Dreaming\
2011-01-24 • Uncategorized
On the conceptualization of Poise.sg
2011-01-24 • Uncategorized
Choice of platform for a new concept
2011-01-06 • Uncategorized

2010 (96 posts)

Techniques for data migration across hosting servers
2010-12-28 • Uncategorized
My constant failures in my pursuit of philosophy
2010-12-15 • Uncategorized
Testimonials from a dysfunctional
2010-12-11 • Uncategorized
Milestones and more milestones
2010-12-07 • Uncategorized
It runs in the blood
2010-12-05 • Uncategorized
Application of the framework from the Tipping Point
2010-12-05 • Uncategorized
Collaboration across time zones
2010-12-02 • Uncategorized
Moving on
2010-11-27 • Uncategorized
Superficial contemplation versus abstract contemplation
2010-11-23 • Uncategorized
Roadmap to Explorya.com #1
2010-08-31 • Uncategorized
One thing leads to another
2010-08-31 • Uncategorized
Progressing onwards to 2011 and beyond
2010-08-26 • Uncategorized
Crazy 28th birthday countdown at 1 Altitude followed by a life time ban from 1 Altitude
2010-08-19 • Uncategorized
Curiosity and interest driven approach towards open source Joomla 1.5 technology and a backward shift
2010-08-12 • Uncategorized
just for fun
2010-08-06 • Uncategorized
Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it, watch out for the beast
2010-07-27 • Uncategorized
I thank my lucky star
2010-07-13 • Uncategorized
Tactics that salesman uses all the time that totally annoys me
2010-07-12 • Uncategorized
Puzzling discrepancy between current stock price of shares and actual value reflected in the financial statements
2010-07-07 • Uncategorized
The Mulberry Plant from London
2010-07-04 • Uncategorized
Positive liberty, negative liberty and the age of the stupid!
2010-07-01 • Uncategorized
Modified Joomfish menu bar with more user friendly submenus
2010-06-25 • Uncategorized
Some how my game got switched
2010-06-24 • Uncategorized
Inheritance of will
2010-06-20 • Uncategorized
A review on a few Singapore Hosting services
2010-06-17 • Uncategorized
Review of Ektron CMS system and a analogy on the Windows operating system
2010-06-16 • Uncategorized
Adjustment in style of communication
2010-06-16 • Uncategorized
taking a leap of faith
2010-06-15 • Uncategorized
time to drop it
2010-06-11 • Uncategorized
Joomla 1.5 Cloud sourcing continued
2010-06-10 • Uncategorized
taking the plunge into cloud sourcing
2010-06-09 • Uncategorized
Process innovation will create a strong barrier to entry for businesses in the 21st Century
2010-06-08 • Uncategorized
A reality check and the discovery of one huge gap
2010-06-04 • Uncategorized
One gold mine leads to another
2010-05-31 • Uncategorized
hilarious nonsense and the failure to be classified
2010-05-27 • Uncategorized
Drunken rambling
2010-05-26 • Uncategorized
The importance of knowledge management within an organization
2010-05-25 • Uncategorized
An interesting and perhaps useful observation
2010-05-22 • Uncategorized
Supper club Singapore with its utterly bad service will close down very soon
2010-05-22 • Uncategorized
Installation of the MSSQL server
2010-05-20 • Uncategorized
Taking a step back and enjoying the space
2010-05-19 • Uncategorized
Some issues with google Ajax language translator service
2010-05-18 • Uncategorized
Experimentations with Artisteer
2010-05-16 • Uncategorized
A very familiar prose
2010-05-16 • Uncategorized
Huge influx of opportunites and the hidden opportunity cost
2010-05-15 • Uncategorized
I will kill 75 Singapore Dogs and they will die on the 17th of May
2010-05-11 • Uncategorized
Turning sand to stone
2010-05-10 • Uncategorized
The use of Zen as a tool for work and as a philosophy in everyday life
2010-04-30 • Uncategorized
Impressive Tool for deciphering what a font in an image is
2010-04-30 • Uncategorized
The joy of living like nomad and the ease that comes with learning to fail properly
2010-04-25 • Uncategorized
The importance of process innovation within a company
2010-04-17 • Uncategorized
Keeping the brain useful
2010-04-09 • Uncategorized
A possible solution to an interesting problem
2010-04-08 • Uncategorized
SWFupload and Joomla integration revisited
2010-04-06 • Uncategorized
Surprise popularity of Joomla 1.5 Component Simple Thickbox Gallery
2010-04-06 • Uncategorized
Technical paper 2 : creating a class dynamically
2010-03-30 • Uncategorized
The sad case of being an unfilial son once again
2010-03-30 • Uncategorized
Technical paper on a possible generic PHP based system
2010-03-29 • Uncategorized
Learning how to use Ektron CMS
2010-03-26 • Uncategorized
Things To Do Singapore progresses down the long tail
2010-03-25 • Uncategorized
MSSQL 2008 server on VPC resource pool error
2010-03-22 • Uncategorized
An evening when all things come in threes. Work productivity and the two matrix
2010-03-22 • Uncategorized
Joomla Component officially launched
2010-03-21 • Uncategorized
Back to doddling with ASP.net technologies
2010-03-21 • Uncategorized
500Gb of space and the Tower of Hanoi Problem
2010-03-18 • Uncategorized
Software developement
2010-03-18 • Uncategorized
Upgrading MOSS server to use Active Directory
2010-03-18 • Uncategorized
Restoring an MOSS site
2010-03-18 • Uncategorized
Random thoughts on a Tuesday evening
2010-03-16 • Uncategorized
A great day indeed
2010-03-15 • Uncategorized
System - RokCandy causes erratic behaviour in Joomla
2010-03-11 • Uncategorized
Debugging some errors in Joomla Component Kunena Forum
2010-03-10 • Uncategorized
Joomla Menu Item Parameters Configuration
2010-03-03 • Uncategorized
Reinstallation of Brother HL-2070N Printer driver to improve performance drastically
2010-03-03 • Uncategorized
Video Conversion with Virtual Dub
2010-03-02 • Uncategorized
Spring Singapore - LETAS grant ceases thus brings an end to the Gold Rush
2010-02-24 • Uncategorized
Finally deploying my first Hello World Share point - Merry Christmas
2010-02-20 • Uncategorized
Google Trends as a marketing tool
2010-02-19 • Uncategorized
Where to download Windows Server 2003 evaulation version for 180 days
2010-02-19 • Uncategorized
Windows 2003 Server on VPC cannot connect to the internet
2010-02-18 • Uncategorized
I am submitting a new link!
2010-02-15 • Uncategorized
Making mod_rewrite work for Apache server on Windows XP
2010-02-05 • Uncategorized
New Zealand is calling!
2010-02-03 • Uncategorized
not feeling good and a major system overhaul
2010-01-11 • Uncategorized
System configuration finished - Windows XP and Window 2003 Server on Virtual PC
2010-01-11 • Uncategorized
Another sample site to draw inspiration upon for Things To Do Singapore
2010-01-09 • Uncategorized
Exceptions to the case - How to be a skeptic in this superfically optimistic world.
2010-01-08 • Uncategorized
Unable to connect to the database:The MySQL adapter \"mysql\" is not available.
2010-01-07 • Uncategorized
Make money from YouTube another affiliate advertising revenue stream
2010-01-07 • Uncategorized
Crashed Statcounter.com
2010-01-05 • Uncategorized
GMap2 is not defined on ThingsToDoSingapore.com
2010-01-05 • Uncategorized
Using statcounter.com concurrently with Google Analytics
2010-01-04 • Uncategorized
Alternatives to Google Adsense
2010-01-04 • Uncategorized
Could something be wrong with Google Adsense
2010-01-04 • Uncategorized
Increase Adsense Revenue: Google Adsense Revenue Sharing Sites For Backlinking
2010-01-04 • Uncategorized
Improving the performance of Ajax on ThingsToDoSingapore.com
2010-01-01 • Uncategorized

2009 (76 posts)

Picking up Photoshop on the Run - YouTube
2009-12-23 • Uncategorized
How I created odd shaped menus using Photoshop
2009-12-23 • Uncategorized
PHP set to further penetrate Enterprise solutions arena
2009-12-15 • Uncategorized
inexplicable bug with cooliris
2009-12-15 • Uncategorized
Problems integrating SWFupload with Joomla
2009-12-12 • Uncategorized
Extending Joomla to use Jquery
2009-12-11 • Uncategorized
Japanese Anime One Piece, a first application of the Object Oriented Approach
2009-12-11 • Uncategorized
12 Ways to Use Facebook Professionally
2009-12-08 • Uncategorized
A web that is hard to escape from
2009-11-20 • Uncategorized
Working on WinterInVenice
2009-11-16 • Uncategorized
Leveling up. New laptop, new technological platform Microsoft SharePoint
2009-11-12 • Uncategorized
Capitalism : A love story
2009-11-10 • Uncategorized
Converting of Windows Word Document to PDF
2009-11-10 • Uncategorized
Why money?
2009-11-07 • Uncategorized
Configuring Internet Explorer 2008 for Sharepoint
2009-11-06 • Uncategorized
Installation of Sharepoint
2009-11-06 • Uncategorized
Configuring Singtel Broadband router to host web server
2009-10-30 • Uncategorized
Email client configuration POP vs IMAP
2009-10-30 • Uncategorized
Eternity be damned
2009-10-28 • Uncategorized
21st century monsters
2009-10-26 • Uncategorized
Security or imprisonment?
2009-10-26 • Uncategorized
A frustrating argument
2009-10-21 • Uncategorized
United States Political Scene is Turning into Taiwan's
2009-10-17 • Uncategorized
How to install a big database in an MySQL server
2009-10-14 • Uncategorized
Set Theory - a way of solving problems
2009-10-13 • Uncategorized
Making Firefox perform faster
2009-10-10 • Uncategorized
Work around for JQuery easing for Internet Explorer
2009-10-09 • Uncategorized
Personal space
2009-10-08 • Uncategorized
Bazaar happenings in the clementi neighborhood
2009-10-05 • Uncategorized
Migrating WordPress sites from One Hosting Service to another
2009-10-04 • Uncategorized
A series of natural disasters - Water Elements
2009-10-04 • Uncategorized
What A Tough Nut to Crack
2009-10-02 • Uncategorized
Programmable Digital Touch Screen Photo Frame
2009-10-02 • Uncategorized
Domain names as the new landed property
2009-09-28 • Uncategorized
The dawning of the new age
2009-09-28 • Uncategorized
Updating facebook fan page externally without the use of the Facebook API
2009-09-26 • Uncategorized
Working on photography.name1price.com
2009-09-25 • Uncategorized
chains chains and more chains...
2009-09-24 • Uncategorized
Next destination perhaps...
2009-09-19 • Uncategorized
Facebook connect performance issue
2009-08-21 • Uncategorized
Too much 7s for a birthday!
2009-08-19 • Uncategorized
Turning 27, what a dark one.
2009-08-18 • Uncategorized
Working on Singapore Rental and setting up the master mind group - think and grow rich
2009-08-18 • Uncategorized
Revisit to the bridge
2009-08-18 • Uncategorized
On Benjamin Shears Bridge
2009-08-13 • Uncategorized
Dream come true for a friend
2009-08-03 • Uncategorized
Getting Google Friends Connect to Work with FaceBook Connect
2009-07-12 • Uncategorized
Extending ThingsToDoSingapore.com
2009-07-11 • Uncategorized
Further extending thingstodosingapore.com
2009-07-11 • Uncategorized
Parting with a comrade
2009-06-21 • Uncategorized
PHP set to be the disruptive innovation in the ERP arena
2009-06-12 • Uncategorized
Market intelligence
2009-06-11 • Uncategorized
Lunch Experiment Backfired
2009-06-07 • Uncategorized
Haka (KA MATE! KA MATE! KA ORA! KA ORA! ...)
2009-06-05 • Uncategorized
Google Map Api revisited
2009-06-02 • Uncategorized
Google wave, the stanford model works, Serendipity
2009-06-01 • Uncategorized
Every one has something to say - use a blog!
2009-06-01 • Uncategorized
Network effects on the internet.
2009-06-01 • Uncategorized
Jump!
2009-05-31 • Uncategorized
Owned by the Web
2009-05-31 • Uncategorized
Success needs no explanation and Failures have no excuses
2009-05-28 • Uncategorized
Cold reading
2009-05-26 • Uncategorized
In Transit
2009-05-24 • Uncategorized
Cool Islam site
2009-05-24 • Uncategorized
Massive Community sustains Technology
2009-05-24 • Uncategorized
The world is turning topsy turvy
2009-05-23 • Uncategorized
Silence!
2009-05-21 • Uncategorized
watch out for car with license plate SFZ2873B
2009-05-21 • Uncategorized
Sea Voyaging
2009-05-21 • Uncategorized
Schemes to make money from home
2009-05-21 • Uncategorized
A new game
2009-05-17 • Uncategorized
Nowadays it seems...
2009-05-17 • Uncategorized
The waiting cat
2009-05-17 • Uncategorized
Burden
2009-05-17 • Uncategorized
Serendipity
2009-05-16 • Uncategorized
The roller coaster ride continues…
2009-05-16 • Uncategorized