Echoes from a Distant Past
I wrote the essay below nearly 8(!) years ago. Weird how much I've foreshadowed my concerns near graduation. Forgive the cookie-cutter phrasing and lazy plot - »
On Execution
At the launch of The Birthday Book, the editor paid Aaron Maniam1 what I considered the greatest compliment ever. He said, and I paraphrase, that "Aaron's »
2015 Year in Books
So this blog had no posts in 2015. Although I didn't write anything, I did manage to read a bit. Quick thoughts on what stood out. »
Design Blues
I consider myself a design noob. I have long complained that I cannot tell a good colour combination from bad, and find it pretty difficult even »
Locked and Loaded
What would you do if you got the opportunity to execute literally any idea you felt like for a class project? Get frozen in indecision, that's »
The Planning Fallacy
It is pretty epic how the human mind (read: me!) manages to both 'know' something as a fact and yet not internalize its relevance. A rather »