About Me

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Dropped out of medical school in Singapore. Decided to be a snowboarding instructor in the freezing hills of Quebec. Potwashed for some extra money to pay the heating bills.

Educated in Statistics and Computer Science. I did the OMCSC specializing in Machine Learning with Georgia Tech. Hands down the best bang for your buck for a computer science master's, less than $10k all in. Spent more than a decade living in London. Learnt that moving to a new place doesn’t change my fears about where I’m from.

The stock market for the first decade of working life. Took the entrepreneurial path for the past few years. I enjoy making people smile and feeling like I am useful. Also, I like having fun at work.

Considered an MBA, didn't really want to fork out a quarter of a million dollars for it. Thought setting up a lemonade stand would teach me some practical MBA-type skills. Found my lemonade stand in the form of a venture studio now, working as a venture architect.

Currently interested in the intersection of positive social impact, finance, data and technology. Now in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia building and funding startups in the fintech space.

Key Principles I Think We Should Know

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• Principle of Parsimony - Less is More
• Long-Term Thinking, Delayed Gratification, Marshmallow Test
• Finding Global Maxima, Infinite Games, Moloch
• Pareto Principle, or the 80/20 Rule

My Working Interests

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Please get in touch if you are interested in any of these areas.

• Wealth-Tech
• Microfinance
• Impact Investing
• Foreign Worker Migration

Book Reviews

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Psychology & Decision-Making

• Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less - Barry Schwartz
• The Upward Spiral - Alex Korb
• The Power of Us - David Price

Self-Improvement & Life Design

• Atomic Habits - James Clear
• Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life - Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
• Hell Yeah or No - Derek Sivers

Business & Career

• Anything You Want: 40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur - Derek Sivers
• The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd - Allan Dib
• Start With Why - Simon Sinek
• The Infinite Game - Simon Sinek
• The McKinsey Way - Ethan M. Rasiel
• Linchpin - Seth Godin

Finance & Investing

• The Education of a Value Investor - Guy Spier

Economics & Development

• Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty - Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo

Spirituality & Happiness

• The Book of Joy - Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu
• Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine - Derren Brown

My Writings

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Contact Me

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• Book Time for a 30min chat
• LinkedIn
• Email Me
• Request for my CV

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Some Disclosures

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All links on my site are for knowledge sharing. I am not being paid for any ad or link referral

How I Built This

This site was built with some very simple html and css. You can find the templates from w3schools. I am using github + netlify to host it, I bought the domain name from namescheap. All in cost me less than 15 bucks and a morning to get it up and running with some content.