05 · Leadership

Making others greater. Building antifragile teams and institutions.

Most leaders think leadership is about position. It is not. It is about foresight — seeing where your people need to go before they see it themselves. It is about building a culture where winning behaviours become instinctive, not mandated.

The best teams do not just survive disruption. They use it. They grow stronger under pressure because the leader built the conditions for that strength before the pressure arrived.

Leadership is not the art of being indispensable. It is the art of making yourself unnecessary — and leaving behind an institution that outlasts you.

If you cannot build that, you are not leading. You are managing.

06 Learning - Mastering self. Reading in the age of AI — what still matters and what doesn't.

I read for time arbitrage. One book distils a lifetime of someone else's hard-won experience. That is the trade — hours of reading for decades of living.

But AI changes the equation. If a tool can summarise, synthesise, and apply information faster than I can read, what is reading for?

I believe the answer is mastery of self. AI can give you information. It cannot give you the discipline to sit with a difficult idea until it changes you. It cannot give you the felt sense of another human life — the texture of their failure, the weight of their decisions, the specific way they saw the world.

Books do not make you smarter. They make you different. That difference — accumulated over years — is what separates those who know from those who have become.

This is where I explore what still matters in the age of infinite information.

07 · Nation

How Singapore navigates the next 30 years — and what each of us owes the pioneers who built it.

Singapore is 60 years old. By the patterns of history, that places us in the Age of Affluence — the precise moment when great civilisations stop dreaming and begin declining.

I refuse that trajectory.

I came to Singapore as an immigrant. I chose to become its citizen. That choice carries a weight I do not take lightly — and a responsibility I am not willing to outsource to someone else.

The Singapore that welcomed me was built by pioneers who had nothing except clarity of purpose and the will to act. The Singapore my children will inherit will be built by people willing to ask harder questions: How do we maintain social cohesion in an age of disruption? How do we build a gracious society when AI is rewiring work, identity, and human connection? How do we produce a new generation of pioneers?

I do not have all the answers. But I am committed to asking the questions in public — and finding people willing to build the answers together.

Singapore gave me the conditions to become my best self. This pillar is my attempt to return that gift.

08 · Artificial Intelligence

Living an antifragile life and leading as a human in the Age of AI.

My children study hard. But I know the skills they are studying for may not be the skills that will be hired in the future. That thought does not leave me.

I am not interested in AI hype or AI fear. I am interested in the real question: how do people like us — mid-career professionals, parents, leaders built for a world that is changing — navigate this transition with our children, our teams, and our sense of purpose intact?

The antifragile response to AI is not to resist it or worship it. It is to use it as pressure that forces us to become more human — more creative, more strategic, more capable of the work only humans can do.

Is it too late to learn? I do not think so. But only for those willing to start now.

This is where I work that out — for my children, for people like me, and for anyone standing at the same crossroads wondering what comes next.