“The goal [of writing] is to get to the place where your usual judgy mind has been quietened, your easy opinions get reduced and you’re in a kind of holy state of not knowing anything.”
— George Saunders
Making Space
January is the time to set new resolutions, goals and targets. However, our best intentions usually fall by the wayside come March.
Cognitive science suggests that real progress comes from dedicated, distraction-free time and mental solitude to practice, fail, and persist – not from strategies or slogans.
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An Idea for the New Year
Mindfulness - the simple act of actively noticing new things - can help us be more open, more engaged and less stressed in this uncertain world.
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Not Perfect Is Good
We aspire to greatness than anything that has ever existed, yet never attaining perfection
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Leadership in the Post-Moneyball Era
The recent mass rollout of AI tools such as GPT is accelerating our irrepressible trajectory towards technological utopia. It is more crucial than ever to rethink the role of leadership to guide us through the ensuing socio-economic disruption.
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Picking a Side
On July 14, 2020, President Trump signed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act into law. This law provides a foil to the Hong Kong National Security Law by imposing economic sanctions, not just on individuals and entities, but also on the financial institutions transacting with them. As this geopolitical tug-of-war continues to play out, how should financial institutions, which for decades have profited from international trade with mainland China, frame their responses?
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