Offence And Defence: The new arms race in cybersecurity
This article first appeared in Forum, The Edge Malaysia Weekly on December 30, 2024 - January 12, 2025 The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has resulte...
Jotham Lim — Writing
Articles, newsletter posts, and republished magazine features by Jotham Lim.
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Recovering Redacted Content: It's Scary How Easy It Is
Blurred and pixelated images can often be reverse-engineered to reveal censored details, making them unreliable for secure redaction.Black bar redaction in...
An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Effective Time-Tracking
A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.- Jeff DuntemannMaybe you’ve heard of time-tracking tools; perhaps you’ve ev...
I’ve time-tracked for a week. What I’ve learnt made me uncomfortable.
I’ve started time-tracking 2 weeks ago after being inspired by the Cortex Podcast by Mike and CGP Grey.Why? Humans are poor judges of how we spend our time...
Doom Emacs – a Text Editing Playground I Didn’t Know I Needed
After migrating my notes to Notion, the names Emacs and Org-mode appeared constantly in threads, podcasts, and forums.Though I knew the destination, embark...
Guide: Publishing to Hugo/Jekyll Remotely via IOS
Hugo excels at desktop publishing. I can create files using CLIs or markdown editors, then publish to a Github repository. This directly reflects on the we...
Changing Jobs for the Eighth Time
Changing Jobs for the Eighth TimeWhere Am I Heading?I’m currently embarking on a new venture, CoThinking, a marketing firm specialising in the B2B tech mar...
Omnifocus Is Not a TODO App, It’s a CAN DO App
I made the switch from Things (my main app for 3 years) to OF4 after learning about David Sparks and CGP Grey’s approach to task manage...
Why Am I Migrating to Micro.Blog?
This is my 7th blog migration now—away from WordPress, Obsidian Publish, Super.so, Ghost, Substack & Hugo.Admittedly, it’s a form of procrastinati...
Why I Chose Hugo for My Personal Website
Having my own website is essential to me.Being an online lurker for so long, I have often regretted not contributing more to the internet space rather than...
After 18 Months — Being a Marketing Manager
I lead a small team of three. Though small, this department is an important one and has an undeniable impact on the company and the industry.We are markete...
How Competitive Shooters Made Me a Better Leader
It’s easy to chalk up e-sports as just children’s pastime. But like any other sport, it takes a lot of practice, skills, and talent to be highly competitiv...
Will ChatGPT Replace Writers?
A few weeks back, an old friend asked me this over some pints. “Do you think ChatGPT will replace us one day?” Both of us are from the creative industry, i...
Plight of the Malaysian Young Adults
I had a discussion with a friend about rising property prices. Both of us are in our late 20s.“We have it tough. During our parent’s time, homes could be b...
I've Experimented With Personal Productivity for 18 Months — Here's What I've Learned
I am obsessed with productivity systems. From Ali Abdaal to James Clear, Keep Productive to Cal Newport… task apps, calendars, daily planners, and personal...
Why Everyone Should Learn Task Management
Thanks to the availability of AI tools like ChatGPT, completing tasks is easier than ever before.Work that once took hours can now be completed in mere min...
Guide to Being a New Manager — Alignment
Being recruited as a first-time manager can be both exciting yet uncomfortable.The prospects of higher pay and benefits come at the expense of more respons...
Building a Personal Website — Why I Chose Obsidian Publish
Note: I have since moved to Substack for several reasons, but the points here still apply.Why I Need a Personal WebsiteThe job market is highly competitive...
Side Projects Within the Workplace
Isn’t it ironic?Many companies preach the values of creativity and innovation within the workplace, but don’t provide the breathing space to do so (Thankfu...
AI Has Come, but I Will Still Be Here
AI is set to disrupt most if not all, sorts of knowledge work. But disruption shouldn’t be mistaken as a replacement.I’ve been using AI and automation tool...
3 Book Reccomendations for Young Professionals
Of all the habits I’ve built up in recent years, consistent reading is the one that has helped me the most. It formed the foundation of my personal product...
3 Soft Skills to Put in Your Resume for Young Professionals in 2023
Companies seem to place a strong emphasis on hard skills in the workplace—which is evident in most job descriptions I come across online.For every engineer...
Disruption: Adapting to new age of AI tools
This article first appeared in Digital Edge, The Edge Malaysia Weekly on March 27, 2023 - April 2, 2023 A few weeks back, an old friend asked me this over...
Writing Shorter
I have a bad habit of writing long form content.Although great for cover stories on print publications like TheEdge, it doesn’t suit the Internet where con...
Boosting Team Productivity — What We Can Learn From University Projects
What makes an unsustainable, inefficient, and selfish department? For that, we can look towards a scenario that many of you might be all too familiar with:...
Being Personal in the Workplace
QUESTIONDoes a healthy working culture require employees to be personal with each other, beyond the confines of work?ANSWERSpending over 80 hours a week su...
Overemphasising Creativity Will Hurt Your Business
I believe that ideas are often overrated, and undeserving of the pedestal companies place them upon.A person’s creativity is evaluated during recruitment,...
Why Writing Matters to Everyone
Is long-form writing dead?Part of me believes it is—mainly because other forms of content out there are more interesting and have a larger audience. Why wr...
Misconceptions About Group Decision-Making — Tips for Better Business Communication
Is group decision-making a democratic process or a dictatorship? A survival of the fittest idea or a battle to achieve consensus?The reality is often more...
Content Creation - Working Past the Cringe
When’s the last time you’ve released content, not for others but yourself?I have killed and revived many blogs, and all past efforts have stopped dead at t...