Author's note: This post was originally titled "Déformation Professionnelle", but I had trouble understanding it myself and have renamed it for easier future reference! This post in three words: Profession -> Perception -> Truth The following text is taken from the excellent book The Art of Thinking Clearly, by Rolf Dobelli. A man takes out... Continue Reading →
A Chinese perspective on business
I'm currently reading a book called Dedication - The Huawei Philosophy of Human Resource Management, by Huang Weiwei. I'm only in the first chapter, but I'm already in love with it. It's so, so different from the most western-centric business books that I'm used to. I'm just going to leave you with a couple of... Continue Reading →
Great, but incompatible
It's painful how sometimes you can put in lots of effort and sacrifice into a project (or a career) in the hope that it will pay off, only for it to fall through in the last moment. It's worse when the motivation that was used sustain that effort was based on the fact that "there's... Continue Reading →
If it’s not a ‘Hell, yes!’, it’s a ‘No.’
The title of this post, "if it's not a 'Hell, yes!', it's a 'No.'" comes from a Tim Ferriss book I'm currently reading called Tools of Titans, and is one of Ferriss' favourite rules of thumb. Here's a little more context (Ferriss is quoting Derek Sivers here): Because most of us say yes to too... Continue Reading →
What are you doing to help the person next to you?
Was taking a break from my studies (exams next week, people!), having my dinner and watching some YouTube vids on "leadership" (just because) when I came across Simon Sinek and this video. Reminded me of something I knew very well sometime back, but forgotten in the hustle and bustle of corporate life: that we sometimes... Continue Reading →
Developing a Culture
Seth Godin wrote a wonderful post on how we sometimes need an external push (through laws, policies, cultural guardrails) to do what's best for us. It can be basically summed up by the following statements (from the post): We know that wearing a bicycle helmet can save us from years in the hospital, but some... Continue Reading →
On Hiring for the Long Term
This was something I read in a book called The Art of Scalability, something I believe I'd always intuitively known but never had spelt out explicitly: that having additional hands (or brains) does not necessarily equate to a proportional increase of output - it is often less, especially at the start. The problem is relatively... Continue Reading →
You make it look so easy
I'll start with a quote I read today from the book Getting Ahead (Garfinkle, 2011) about a problem faced by people good at their craft. It made me smile because I this was the first time I'd seen it brought up anywhere and which I thought was one of those things I thought you just... Continue Reading →
How I became an analyst
I just approved a comment on one of my earlier posts, a post about my possible foray into sales. A post that, as I re-read it, brought back plenty of memories. A post that reminded me how my career as it stands now, that of data science and analytics, is quite different from what I had once... Continue Reading →
On Public Speaking
Yesterday, I gave a presentation for a group assignment in my Master's class. It was exhilarating and a whole lot of fun, despite (or perhaps because) of the fact that we had overrun our stipulated time and I had to go really quick, determining what could be skipped and what could not on the fly.... Continue Reading →
Donn, fragments 