One of the biggest blunders in the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore. Even till today, no one in the task force is honest or responsible enough to apologise for the mistake, unlike leaders who are open and transparent.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is best known as the author of The Black Swan, wrote an ominous academic note on the Coronavirus event and urged policy- and decision-makers to act swiftly and avoid the fallacy that to have an appropriate respect for uncertainty in the face of possible irreversible catastrophe amounts to “paranoia”. Unfortunately, that… Read More »
Sometimes when you’re writing your advertising copy, you need to make sure you use the correct article before the noun. So it’s for just one chicken wing?
After a long layoff (been busy listening to Dan Carlin’s superb “Hardcore History“), I came back and listened to the “How I Built This” podcast again. This show has an impressive line-up of interview subjects (probably thanks to the NPR branding), but the line of questioning by Guy Raz is riddled with many softball questions.… Read More »
“You want free speech? Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who’s standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours.” Today, I came across two Facebook updates by Andrew Loh where he asked: I… Read More »
Came across the following findings online about GIC and Temasek Holdings and found them to be pretty interesting (not to mention worrying). After all, it would take 56 man-years to produce a dollar-and-cents value of Singapore’s immovable assets (real property) alone. Do a Google search to verify the facts and then form your own opinion.… Read More »