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It takes an open and mature mind to look at new technology objectively without personal judgment and without taking hearsay as is. I am talking about ICE car owners in SG. So many times I have heard them saying things that paint a bleak picture of EVs, based on hearsay and rumors, and not based on objective reasoning or real life experience or talking to actual EV owners who are friends  How do you criticize a technology when you don’t read about it carefully and without bias ? Or you don’t read about the actual rules and regulations pertaining ownership of EVs? It’s just make for illogical coffee shop chatter. Zero substance and all entertainment 

 Every morning during school going hours, maybe around 7-720am, everyone with kids going to schools will be taking the lifts of the apartments down to ground floor or basement carpark floors. Sometimes, there will be a choke point created when someone in the higher floors decided to hold the lift to wait for maybe their kids to complete wearing their shoes, thinking they will “save time” by not needing to wait for the next lift.  This is, first of all, totally anti social and selfish behavior.  But also, ironically, if you think about it, this doesn’t really save time for the joker who held on to the lift. In fact, he or she would had reached the ground faster by simply waiting for next lift! Why? See, it’s peak hours. So there is a high chance that each floor will have people waiting to take the lifts. If you hold the lift at your floor (high floor) for too long, the number of people waiting at lower floors increases with every second passed. So what happens to you? Well...

 Looking back, I really had pure good luck during Covid’s times. I was gainfully employed, well compensated for the work I do, had good work to do and good colleagues, and most importantly, had been working remotely from home full time even before Covid came. That meant job security and money was never a pressing issue for me and family during those uncertain times. We “only” had to deal with disruptions to kids schooling, anxieties related to household supplies and keeping up with the constantly changing rules that the govt doled out non stop. I cannot imagine those families where parents lost their jobs or had to go out to do their jobs while no one could help them with their kids at home.  This has tremendously helped my family weathered the storm extremely well and we came out unscathed and in fact became even financially stronger as we continue to hold on to our well paying jobs and our investments in the markets and properties came out well and fine. So, I must always ap...

 With AI tools everywhere becoming more and more powerfully and fast, people are worried about their jobs. That’s expected. However, have we ever thought about the huge time savings we can enjoy with such AI tools?  It’s like having an army of well trained and 24x7 ready helpers to do things at your command for you. And you have the final say. Say, you are a IT engineer, instead of writing temp scripts to deal with a one off issue, ask AI to write for you while you focus on what the script should do. You just saved yourself 3hours! So why worried about losing your job? You can now do your job more efficiently and effectively while spending the same about of time at work.  So is the worry because of you had been slacking intentionally ? Dragging your feet to do a task over a week which could had been done in 3 days? So that you can show your boss your accomplishments? For real productive workers who want to achieve more, AI is a godsend 

Respect goes both ways. You have to earn it but you also have to give it when the situation calls for it Acting ignorant isn’t sustainable. It will backfire and ultimately result in irreparable damage

 What’s the cost of your salary? It’s your time, your youth, your energy, your lost moments/memories with loved ones, your health (physical and mental). Weigh that to ensure your cost of salary is below your salary.  Early in your career, your cost will be high but that’s likely unavoidable. But make sure you quickly get to a stage where is lower and lower over time.  After you have sufficient resources to not depend on a full time job, your cost of salary will sky rocket. It will take a lot to make you want to get the salary. Flexi hours, short hours, meaningful work, good colleagues, generous benefits and pay. Don’t compare with others. Don’t show off. Don’t give unsolicited advise to others.  No two persons are the same. Their circumstances will differ, their desired lifestyles will differ. Respect that

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