Black men have a shorter end of the stick due to many factors. Aaron attributes the breakdown of the black community to the breakdown of the family unit, driven by government support for single mothers. This led to unintended consequences whereby black women did not care about the risk of raising children as single mothers, Continue reading The Black Man’s Guide Out of Poverty by Aaron Clarey…
Most people are stupid not because of weak mental faculty. People are stupid because they do not listen to their inner voice. They are not honest with themselves. They do not practice intellectual curiosity. Millennials are lazy. What is laziness? Related to the above, laziness stems from the inability to acknowledge reality. The reality is Continue reading How Not To Be Millennials by Aaron…
This post is a summary of Gary Taubes s lecture, Why We Get Fat . Observation The common explanation to obesity epidemic is that these populations practice sedentary lifestyle and consume excessive calories. However, it does not explain obesity epidemic in certain populations. These populations work in intensive labour condition and are malnourished, yet some of them Continue reading Why We Get…
Rule 1: It doesn’t matterIt doesn’t matter what you do, you will die anyway. Rule 2: Nobody is thinking about youPeople are thinking about themselves, just like you Rule 3: Let bad enough alonePeople belief that persistent clarification after one has a social blunder will make everything all right. But sometimes, it is better to Continue reading Rules for Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life
This article reviews The Inner Game of Tennis and outlines actionable insights from the book. In The Inner Game of Tennis, Gallwey shows the methods to overcome self-doubt, nervousness and lapses of concentration that can keep a player from winning. These challenges are called the ‘inner game’. The inner game is the game that takes Continue reading Zen and Tennis
In the book Lean Startup, Eric Ries advocates entrepreneurs to build products that people love. However, entrepreneurs often find it difficult to know what people want. Most people do not know what they want, and entrepreneurs waste a lot of resources building something that no one buys. Fortunately, Lean Analytics illuminates ways to solve these Continue reading How to Grow Your Startup with Data…
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway Introduction Looking back, I always struggled with writing. I felt pain every time I try to fill a blank page. I could bear the pain of writing in high school, but I almost gave up in Continue reading How to Write Well: 4 Steps to Improve Your Writing
I have been resisting to read I Will Teach You to Be Rich for a while now because of the clickbait title and weird book cover (on the 2009 version), although it has good reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. After seeing Personal Finance and FIRE (Financial Independence/ Retire Early) subreddits recommending this book, I decided to watch Continue reading I Will Teach You to Be Rich (Book Review)
This guide will provide a brief review of investment options in Malaysia, their returns and how you can start. Note that this guide is for beginners and I have excluded other riskier options such as Forex, properties and cryptocurrencies. In addition, I do not recommend unit trust funds because of the high management fees which can eat up your capital.
Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (affiliate link) traces the development of major empires since the 16th century and seek to explain the reasons for their rise and fall. Compare to other works in the literature, this book focuses on the interaction between economic factors and strategy rather than finding one general rules about the Continue reading Rise and Fall of The Great Powers (Book Review)