Back in early 2020, I saw Ray Dalio mention that Ashton Kutcher had used his app to write down his own life principles on his birthday. I had read Ray’s book and had been collecting mine for a while, so I sat down and wrote them all out in one go. I stopped at 50…
Corporate venture capital has a survival problem. The median CVC unit now survives just four years, and less than half — 46 per cent — actively invest for only three years or fewer. Many more linger on the organisation chart long after the investing has stopped. Set that against the seven-to-ten-year horizon of virtually every…
“Will AI replace people?” is the popular and intriguing question. It is also the wrong one. Most organisations still treat AI mainly as a productivity tool, much like the PC or internet eras. That is too narrow. AI does not simply make certain work faster. It multiplies what is already there: judgment, discipline, logic, incentives,…
Most negotiation advice starts with the same checklist. Know your BATNA. Map your interests. Do the homework. Come prepared. All of this is useful. And for a lot of negotiations, it is enough. Where it gets interesting is when you ask what a fuller checklist might look like — one that goes beyond what is…
Done well, M&A is one of the most powerful tools in business. It can compress years of organic development into months. It can open markets that would otherwise take a decade to enter. It can deliver talent, technology, distribution, regulatory access, or customer relationships that no internal team could build quickly enough. At its best,…
Most board agendas are driven by one question: what do we need approval for? That’s a bylaws-driven mindset. It treats the board as a rubber-stamping mechanism — here’s the resolution, here’s the supporting paper, here’s the recommendation. Approve and move on. If you’ve assembled a competent board, you’re massively underutilising it. The agenda-setting problem Where…
The New Rules From 1 July 2025, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong introduced two significant changes to the governance of its listed companies. Independent non-executive directors (INEDs) are now subject to a hard nine-year tenure cap — after which they automatically lose their independent status and must either step down or be redesignated as…
I often ask friends and colleagues how they are using AI in their work. It has become one of my standard questions in interviews too.
有始必有終，不論因為開始時是緣是情還是童真，終究夢醒時分依依不捨是因為夕陽還是黃昏，人生的精彩，應是在於沿途路過的風景，那些陪伴過我們的人與事，那些交織而成的情與義。
我社的交接儀式有好幾個：President’s Night、District Installation、新年度第一次例會的交帶，以及這個禮拜的 Joint Board Meeting！
問我歡呼聲有幾多，問我悲哭聲有幾多，我如何能夠一一去數清楚？問我點解會高興，究竟點解要苦楚……
這週小孩開始放暑假，Grade 6 的學期正式結束，跟他老爸一樣，準備畢業，收成績單了。
結束了 11 個月的社長任期，如果說有什麼最大收穫，那應該就是 – 我的腰圍成長了不少 😖。
真的要進入最後階段了，這個週末就是本年度的 District Conference，也就是我們的畢業典禮。
雖然最近很多社友都開始幫我一起倒數任期結束，但其實接下來還有一些大型活動。我這個人就是這樣，越接近終點，心裡反而越多不確定性（永遠的不安全感）。不過還是那句話：想多無謂，行動最實際。
上週四因為勞動節假期取消了例會，所以這週的例會讓我感覺好像跟大家很久不見一樣。
真的只剩8次例會了！
這週例會又有驚喜！居然有兩位現任 DG 出席我們的例會！聽一些前社長說，很有可能是我們社的第一次！ 😎
首先在這裡祝大家，不論是否有宗教信仰，復活節快樂！反正放假就是開心，至於原因，有那麼重要嗎？
本來以為這一季應該會比較輕鬆，可是這週還是蠻精彩的！
社長週記來到第40期囉！
這週明明沒有例會，我還是飛回香港。為什麼？因為我們的例會變身成了晚上登場的 Ladies’ Night！
又是當天來回的一週，又是充滿喜樂的一週。
平凡不平凡的一週。
這週行程相當緊湊。週一至週三我在星加坡出差，週三晚上回到台灣稍作休息，週四一大早就趕回香港參加例會。
這週一開始就由 IPP Roy、PP Lewis、PE Dennis 代表我社參加地區舉辦的 「共融之樂」保齡球活動（而我則又再次偷懶 😣）。
本週二，因為一個「烤肉之喜」的討論，讓whatsapp群組變得非常熱鬧！當然，最重要的還是希望有更多社友報名參加這個活動！
要說新年是一個好好沈思與期待的時候，我覺得更多應該是感恩的好時機。因此，在這個“新正頭”，除了再次祝福大家，我也想感謝身邊的許多人和事。
不懂風水的我，也搞不清楚今年哪一天上班才是最好。不過，大部分朋友應該都在這週開工，所以在此祝大家生意興隆，步步高升！
首先在這裡再次恭祝大家新年快樂，身體健康，萬事如意！
沒事沒事，不用擔心，我（還）沒犯事，我與這麼多名律師一起合照，只是因為他們都是我們香港北區扶輪社的社友而已！😂
最近事情比較多，這週又是港台當天來回參加例會！
非常頻撲的一週，四天在四個城市過夜。
2025 到了！再次祝福大家新年快樂！最重要的是身體健康，萬事如意，團圓美滿！
歡樂既時光過得特別快，又是時候說拜拜。當然，除了向 2024 年道別，更重要的是迎接 2025 年的到來。
轉眼間就到了2024年的最後一次例會（因為 26 December 是公眾假期）！
最近發現香港的飯店價格越來越貴，為了節省成本來支持我繼續往返香港的計劃，我終於膽粗粗嘗試了禮拜四早上才到香港的行程！
這週活動相當豐富，所以廢話少說，let’s go~~
一直想試試禮拜四早上搭飛機趕上例會，但又擔心萬一有延誤，來到香港卻無法開會，那種無奈實在難以想像。所以這次還是選擇禮拜三抵達香港，剛好約了朋友，晚上一起去看現在很熱門的電影《破地獄》。
休息了一週，這週我的扶輪活動又再次開始了！
搜尋“颱風”這兩個字，在過去19週的週記中竟然已經出現了6次。然而，這次終於對我的行程產生了實質的影響。
這週是我社一年中最重要的日子，不僅是姐妹社第43年的來訪，也是我們的週年慈善晚會！
這週變數特別多，可是想太多也沒用，只能 plan for the worst and hope for the best。
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to Leon, happy birthday to you! 再次祝沙展Leon生日快樂！
很多人都愛開玩笑說，我今年坐飛機比坐巴士還多。其實，這當然是錯的，因為每次到香港機場，我都會坐機場巴士。🤪
萬水千山縱橫，豈懼風急雨翻，豪氣吞吐風雷，飲下霜杯雪盞。
不知道是托 HS Philip 的福，還是因為神明保佑，這個禮拜回港時，儘管台北已經開始放颱風假，我還是順利安全抵港！再次感謝所有社友的關心！
這週只在香港停留了兩天。感謝理事會配合我的行程，讓我能順利趕上理事會，並在參加完隔天的例會後回台。
一年容易又中秋，無驚無險十二週。
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. 不知不覺，我的社長生涯已經飄到第11週了。
天有不測之風雲，人有霎時之禍福。是咁的，小弟在這扶輪年又碰到颱風了。🥲
兩個月了！算是安全渡過兩個月社長的時光！還有十個月就完成我社長生涯啦！不過，其實很多工作應該在前半年完成，下半年主要是交接事宜，所以真的很快就畢業啦（自我安慰中 😅）！
19 August 晚上，又和AG與同學仔們開會。AG Joyce 安排得非常貼心，讓社長們可以選擇在兩個不同時間參加線上會議（也意味著她得講兩次 😢）。
到底一週是從禮拜天開始，還是禮拜一開始呢？🤔
從上星期開始到這個星期，我一直忙著為 JPM 收款。沒錯，差不多一百位社長和嘉賓都是直接付款給我，然後我還需要對賬和做報告等。
這個禮拜請假帶老婆去日本慶祝她一個很重要的生日。大家可能會覺得社長週記也會因此停刊？不會的！😆
23 July 晚上9點，我和一些 Area 4 同學仔用 Zoom 討論一個 joint project，主要是邀請一些低收入家庭參加一次親子遊船河活動。
終於到了第三週，代表我的扶輪年還有 49 週，非常開心看到4字頭～～ 😅
這週終於有多點時間處理一下社務，首當其衝的當然就是會費這個問題。
終於輪到我了！ 原本我是 2021-22 年度要當社長的，後來因為疫情和各種原因，P Demen 臨危受命，PP Andrew 也開玩笑說，我是北區扶輪社最 senior 的PE！
最近在思考“詐騙”這件事。 最簡單的概念來說就是說謊。說爛掉的蘋果是好蘋果，說兩房的房子是四房。可是這只是低級騙子的行為，因為早晚會被發現的。
印象中，我一開始到社會工作就開始思考這個問題。 到底如何在職場上可以“成功”？
2022 is another year that is very significant to me. I turned 50 (hopefully got a bit wiser), continued to “work” in a very strange environment and I lost my dad. As for reading, I continued to not remember much from the books that I have read – and it’s getting worse – sometimes I…
2021 is another crazy year. Yup, still no traveling and there were lots of restrictions on social gathering and work-from-home time. I managed to finish (yet) another master’s degree and somehow got involved in a “project” that is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. But most of all, I seem to be remembering very little about the…
We are living in a world where we all pretend to be who we are not. It’s simple maths really. There must be more followers than leaders in this world. There must be more people who are being managed than people who are managing. So why are we so hung up on management, studying it…
What’s there to learn about “how to be managed”? All we need to do, as followers, is to listen to the orders and just follow, right? Do we really need an instruction manual to tell us how to read an instruction manual? Is this what we are talking about here? Well, first, following orders is…
父親於1939年出生於潮州汕頭礐石。從他口中提到他的童年生活，都是自由快樂的。因為是基督教的家庭長大，他分享小時候的故事通常與教會有關，例如他是詩歌班或者是教會在他們鄉下有好多正面的影響。
最近看到一個YouTube頻道給我好多啟示。
好吧，在公佈前有兩件事要說明！ 我對新創的定義有點不一樣。不是甚麼獨角獸/上市為指標，而是它有否創造或者是改變一個市場/社會的一些現象。另外，階段這件事很重要。不是單看公司營運幾年或者是員工有幾位，簡單來說，新創就是還在演變的意思。 除了人類大部份有十根手指以外，其實沒什麼好說十大的。好新創我有幸接觸很多，所謂看好，應該是我個人喜歡/欣賞/羨慕/ 崇拜/妒忌他們背後代表的事情吧！如果大家想看有深度的技術分析，我建議大家馬上訂閱曼報！
2020 is a crazy year. I have done very little traveling and as a result, the amount of reading has dropped (I used to do a lot of reading on planes). Anyway, to continue this little tradition, I am writing a 3 words review of books that I have read this year (as usual, I…
Waking up this morning, my news feeds are flooded with the debate over Jill Biden’s Doctor of Education degree (or is it more about her attitude?). Time for me to chip in.
With the United Nations reclassifying cannabis (https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/12/1079132), it is time for Asian countries and the rest of the world to play the catch-up game.
Before examining the potential use of cannabinoid therapy for HIV patients, it is important to recognize that most literature or research in this field is focused on treating the symptoms or side effects caused by HIV, rather than curing the disease itself. In fact, this was what kick-started the cannabis movement a few decades ago:…
好友一早發了一段新聞給我看，我發現整件事過程蠻有體會的，希望跟大家分享。 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/28/asia/japan-suicide-women-covid-dst-intl-hnk/index.html 我馬上注意到的keyword是日本，自殺與新冠。特別是自殺人數比因為新冠而死亡的人數高。 Headliners值錢的原因就是單單這幾個字就可以很輕鬆讓讀者對號入座。 比方說： 覺得疫情其實沒那麼嚴重，反對lockdown的那群，他們就會結論說：你看，自殺的人還要多啊，為什麼一天到晚要lockdown？有機會更進一步說，有可能就是因為lockdown，大家自殺率才會變這麼高啊！ 覺得疫情很嚴重所以支持lockdown那群同樣可以這樣結論：如果沒有lockdown，死亡人數可能會更高啊。自殺這件事本來在日本本來就很嚴重，不應該把兩件事拉在一起（或者是疫情快變成日本同年層最大殺手了）。 超沒意義的辯論，因為大家都只愛證明自己有多對，可是從來沒有好好思考那個議題。 我自己來說，看到這種類型的文章，第一個反應是看清楚framing在哪裡。 新冠當然是這篇文章的主題，可是把它frame在自殺率上，我們必須要把自殺率搞清楚。到底這樣的自殺率是高還是低（我是講統計學，從個人角度一個自殺個案都是太高）。 下一步，2000多宗個案感覺很多，可是到底應該怎麼去理解這件事呢？所以我繼續去找了一些資料。 除了找可靠的來源，更重要是我的Google search的keyword是什麼？我選擇Japan suicide data，因為我認識data比rate或者其他字眼更中立。 https://www.statista.com/statistics/622065/japan-suicide-number/ https://www.who.int/mental_health/suicide-prevention/country-profiles/JPN.pdf 看到這裏，一年兩萬多人在日本自殺（大概就是一個月兩千多），除了感覺很悲哀以外，發現原來這樣其實已經有明顯的改善，差不多是這十年最低。 然後再看看，就發現了這邊半年前的新聞。 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/japan-suicides-fall-sharply-as-covid-19-lockdown-causes-shift-in-stress-factors 可能是因為那時候雖然疫情已經開始，可是剛好也碰到自殺率歷史新低，大家又很樂意把兩件事連起來了。文章是這樣說的： People spending more time at home with their families, fewer people were commuting to work and delays to the start of the school year are seen as factors in the fall. 你會發現，他說的理由（因為大家多了時間跟家人會讓自殺率降低）”are seen as…
Taiwan, not Thailand (for those who are new to Asia), is a place for the ages. Not because of its unique position in Asia; not because of its wonderful people and landscape; not because of its amazing food and freaking night markets; not because of any of these cliche people have managed to label a…
誰不想用腦袋賺錢？ 當然，在這個所謂知識型社會，單單只靠努力的工作已經不多。 所以，用腦袋賺錢應該要分等級。
Wisdom is often considered the pinnacle or hallmark of adult thinking. And it has a long historical root from psychology and philosophy. In fact, wisdom can be linked back as early to the work of Plato and Aristotle.
Today let’s talk about synthetic cannabinoid toxicity and how these agents differ from cannabis. The way natural cannabis affects our body is through the interaction with our very own endocannabinoid system, specifically the CB1 and CB2 receptors. For simplicity purposes, we can say that the CB1 receptor affects the central nervous system and the CB2…
這一陣子，台灣podcast真的變得很熱鬧，只是我們小小公司就已經有三位同事在經營Podcast頻道。所以今天想整理一下我對Podcast的看法。
There are four aspects that need to be considered when it comes to substance abuse liability, namely: dependency, reinforcement, tolerance, and relapse. For THC, it is obvious that it has reinforcement effect, specifically its interaction with the CB1 receptors, because it has psychoactive effects (i.e. getting high). According to FDA, drug products with abuse potential…
In order to examine an issue such as this one we can either look at it from a physical/physiological standpoint, i.e. how does cannabis affect our brains which may lead us to have a higher chance of substance use disorder of “harder drugs”, or we could use various association/correlation studies which generally gives us a…
Those who follow the development of cannabis know the recent craze is not all about getting high (which is the THC element of cannabis) but it’s about CBD, a substance in cannabis which will not get you high but offer many other medicinal benefits. But is this true? More importantly, how safe is it and…
A simple way to understand the difference between decriminalisation and legalisation is to first consider what is criminal and what is illegal. Criminal activities are usually more serious in nature typically resulting in a criminal record (which have many other undesired consequences) and imprisonment. For example, murders and thefts are usually considered by most societies…
Since the dubious start of regulating/criminalising cannabis back in the 1930s (yes, juicy stories there), there is a steady increase in the acceptance of cannabis, both in terms of recreational and medical use, over the years particularly starting in the late 1990s. Yes, this nicely coincides with the discovery of the endocannabinoid system in human…
I am writing this right before I dive into the long journey of reading Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. Hopefully, when I finish it (someday), I can look back at the propositions that I have now and hopefully have more learning out of it.
Racism, specifically what’s happening in the US, can sometimes feel quite distant for us living far away. Sure, most of us, as human beings, know racism is bad and it should not be tolerated. In fact, I have a taste of it myself, being an immigrant from Hong Kong to Australia when I was 13.…
I am a basketball nerd and fell in love with the game because of the Dream Team and of course, the greatest player of all time, Michael Jordan. But just when the entire basketball world focuses on this latest documentary, “The Last Dance”, I have decided not to watch it. Yes, Michael Jordan is the…
Everyone agrees Taiwan’s startup ecosystem needs to grow. They’re just wrong about what that means. Over the past six to eight years, Taiwan has built something real — communities, programs, accelerators, events. Taiwan Startup Stadium was part of that early push. The momentum has been genuine. And yet the narrative keeps circling back to the…
A quick test: think of any memorable news, journals, articles, blog posts, social media content, do they give you a new perspective, angle or simply change your opinion/position? The answer is most likely no. We are living in a time that our minds are made up. Think about it, when was the last time you…
As someone running a leading startup ecosystem builder in Taiwan, I get this question very often these days. What’s the impact of COVID-19 to the Taiwanese startups? The answer is simple but boring: it depends. What’s more interesting is how this question reveals some of the misunderstanding and misconception that people have for startups. 1.…
最近台灣有一則小新聞，一個小童拒絕帶粉紅色口罩（大概認為粉紅色是女生的），然後政府跟很多團體就提倡“顏色不分性別”的口號。所有讓社會更和諧的事情我都支持，只是這件事有一些邏輯值得釐清。
We live in a very strange time. COVID-19 is scary of course but it also serves as the biggest affirmation to our troubles in recent times. Fake news, populism, junk science, and politics which is perhaps more similar to religion 100 years ago. Growing up in Hong Kong back in the 70s, I remembered when the…
(Note: the original Quora screenshots referenced below were not migrated from Medium — each “response” was originally paired with a screenshot of the Quora question being answered.) I know. Quora is not exactly ResearchGate. And I totally agree with the art of asking “stupid” questions because if by chance you meet some of the most…
We all know about Michael Jordan’s shot in the Finals against the Utah Jazz. It’s a great shot, isn’t it? But wait, what if he missed? As Jeff Van Gundy, NBA coach and TV analyst, once said, let’s make the judgement “when the ball is in the air”. Everyone is an expert after the fact,…
This is perhaps one subculture I don’t get, and certainly I don’t subscribe to, in the startup ecosystem. Failure.
Recently as I was browsing through my old blogs, I noticed I mentioned a few times people I try to avoid working with. Then it dawned on me that I haven’t really talked about people I actually enjoy, or even love, working with.
Dear founders-to-be, I know you have thought long and hard about it. And you have finally summoned your inner strength to really give this a try. Or, given all the craziness we have seen in the last few months, including this mysterious COVID-19, perhaps the decision was made for you. But in any case, after…
Few topics in business are more universally acknowledged and more universally ignored than company values. Anyone who has spent time in a large organisation knows the form. A laminated poster near reception. A slide in the all-hands deck. A paragraph in the annual report that nobody reads and nobody disputes because it commits to nothing…
This is an overdone topic. Search for “why startups fail” and you’ll surface hundreds of articles that all converge on the same list. The problem is that almost none of them actually answer the question they’re claiming to answer. “Building something people don’t want” is not a cause of failure. It’s a description of failure.…
A friend working at a virtual bank asked me over dinner what I thought of them. After a few beers and several minutes of mumbling, I gave her nothing useful. So here’s the answer I should have given. Start with the name What is a virtual bank, exactly? Most people define it by what it…
一早看到Ray Dalio在臉書提到Ashton Kutcher用他的App寫了做人的原則。之前我看了Ray的書也寫了一些，今天決定一次過把我所有的人生的原則/道理寫下來（發現越寫越多）！
With companies scrambling to implement work-from-home policies in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the discourse has been predictably anxious. Productivity. Distraction. Trust. Collaboration. Everyone has a take. Most of them are arguing about the wrong thing. “Home” is not a standard unit Start with something nobody seems to want to acknowledge: home is not a…
I have just received a LinkedIn InMail from someone who has been researching on the Taiwan startup ecosystem. And he asked me several pretty interesting questions. So instead of just responding to him, I would write my answers here.
不管是創業還是人生，我們都會碰到不少問題。有問題，除了好好研究和積極面對以外，當然就是找適合的人問一下。正所謂，“聽君一席話，勝讀十年書”。
I am a regular guy. I believe in most things as-a-matter-of-factly because they were told to me by somehow who is trustworthy. And how do I determine if these people are trustworthy? Well, that’s based on some other people who have told me so. Oh yes, that’s basically what human knowledge is and therefore stop…
I think it’s fair to say that we have all encountered assholes in our lives. And there are many books in the market that teach people how to deal with them, mostly colleagues in the workplace but they are applicable to life in general as well.
I grew up never had a hero, or any idol for that matter. I am never really into any celebrities, sports stars or any business tycoons. I have huge respect for all these people, don’t get me wrong, but they are certainly not what I would consider as a hero. Until recently I came across…
前一陣子，Jamie在天下雜誌寫了一篇“台灣新創圈怪象：旱鴨子卻教游泳”，大概意思是沒創過業的人怎麼能去教別人創業。有人贊同，也有人反對（也順帶攻擊他）。其實他本人和他們加速器裡面的同事有沒有這方面的能力本來就不應該是焦點，因為這沒有讓我們更接近道理。
Recently, I have been getting questions on how to make hiring decisions. As always, I will try to lay out my thinking here.
As the decade is coming to a close, it’s time for a bit of reflection for these wonderful ten years. Come to think of it – A LOT has happened to me!! I will try to keep this short as each lesson I learnt deserve a separate post but this is a start!
Alright, this is becoming a little tradition, I am writing a 3 words review on books that I have read this year (as usual, I cheated a little bit). Search for #yauread on Facebook for my book list or read my previous blog posts 2016 book review and 2017 and 2018 book review!
我老婆常常會問我，“為什麼你這麼愛唸書啦？” 我每次回答都是，“我沒有啊”。 然後我老婆只會給我一個不想再聊下去的眼神。
新創這一兩年有蠻大的改變，從大家都愛說的“平台”（通常都非常niche）；隨便蓋一個App做growth hacking；大多數是toC的市場，到現在說的什麼Deep Tech；跟產業連結；toB的市場（每次一些專家說toC跟toB的時候，我都好想問，你們覺得Slack是那一種呢？）。這些改變，讓大家本來很怕的硬體新創又創造了新的機遇。 今天想想這件事。
Got into a fascinating book and found out this little interesting observation.
Recently I posted a question on LinkedIn asking, “What makes a really good BD (business development) in Taiwan?” A few nice people responded.
怎麼說也是一個decade的最後一個月，是時候自我檢討一下。自我檢討其實是一件很可怕的事，因為不只是要問自己怎麼看自己，而是要想自己如何想/看/想看到別人如何想/看/想看到自己（一直如此類推）。就好像前幾天我在照鏡子的時候突然發現，神經啊，我老婆原來是要天天看著我這個長相的人（好了，先不要討論其他個性的問題等等）– note 1。
Recently I have stumbled upon some YouTube videos on Milton Friedman, a famous American economist who received a Nobel prize on economics. Generally, I don’t put too much weight on Nobel prizes because I believe it’s a highly convoluted system with a lot of inside dealings (especially peace prizes). But Professor Friedman is truly different.…
新創熱潮從大概十年前在亞洲各地開始發展，到今天已經有很大的改變。到底未來會怎樣？從世界上最大的accelerators/單位來看看，應該會給我們不錯的啟示。
要了解一個人，看他在大事情上的處理是不適合的。因為大事情本來有關聯性的事情太多，反而看一個人在小事情怎麼處理（特別是沒人注意的時候），是可以看到那個人蠻多的個性。 舉一個例子。
Recently there has been quite a lot of discussion on collaboration at the office. And it seems some colleagues have been struggling to get a good grasp of the concept. So here is my attempt to break it down in the business context.
發生了好幾個月的“反送中”活動，到了今天，已經從一開始的反送中條例，到五大訴求（雖然應該蠻多人說不出是什麼），再到時代革命，甚至乎有一些人把它跟最敏感的港獨議題拉在一起。 我也有我的想法，可是我覺得想法是不值錢，不重要的。重要是到底自己的想法有沒有演變，有沒有進步，不然這個想法也只是一種自我安慰，自我陶醉的行為。 要有進步，也不是天天自己去想就有，而是需要有適當的腦袋衝擊。 最近終於有了。
This could be just a confirmation bias. Most startup folks around me know I am not a big fan of startup competitions and I have previously posted on similar topics. However, after acting as a ‘judge’ for another startup competition today, I can’t help but continue to reinforce this belief/illusion. Perhaps the reason why I…
最近我跟同事常提到“修身齊家治國平天下”的概念，特別應用在職場上。今天試試把內容整理一下。
自從參與Taiwan Startup Stadium (TSS) 的工作以後，一直以來都有人問我，你們家跟其他政府計畫有什麼差別，有什麼優勢？特別在Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA)的出現以後，我更多被問到的是，我們跟TTA有什麼差別？ 我相信在台灣政府大力推動新創的方向下，以後只會有更多好的新創計畫出現，好像Taiwan Startup Terrace，所以我就試試在這裡解釋一下。更重要的是，一起學習如何在一般事物上作出有效的比較。
It was a nice afternoon in Hong Kong. We were looking at the beautiful Victoria Harbour. It was spectaaaaaacular. And I was with a man, a wise man, though I forgot who he was. As our topic transitioned from the scenic view of Hong Kong to land use, politics, particularly government and business (mostly property…
去年在台灣買了一台車，常常帶家人開車到處玩，非常過癮！ 同時也發現，台灣交通真的很亂，很沒秩序。機車儘管載了一家大小也會亂閃，小路出大路大部份車都不會讓，覺得慢慢開在旁邊就好。在台灣開車，真的會體會到什麼是第四度空間（三台車開在兩條線上）。 這件事讓我思考到，什麼是秩序？
2013年，新一代香港人第一次看到比較嚴重的警民衝突。 2019年，我們這次又學到什麼呢？
After the recent defeat of Houston Rockets, there have been a lot (more) debates on whether analytics works – which as most of us basketball fans know, Houston Rockets is absolutely religious when it comes to analytics.
在新創圈，單純走互聯網概念的”平台”越來越不好做，反過來跟企業有關的B2B的項目變多。這些項目更接近亞洲的”洲情”，更實在。
前一陣子跟同事聊天，談到我以前當管理層的時候可以很兇，和現在有點不一樣。這沒什麼稀奇，人本來就會變，重點是，為什麼變？
不只是台灣，亞洲很多地區都有面對企業，特別是“中小企業”，接班的問題。提到接班，大家會想到，如期交給下一代，不如交給專業管理人。 今天來討論一下。
前同事突然說要找我到他公司，跟他部門做什麼人生規劃的分享。 以前在四大工作，常常會到各式各樣的場合做類似的分享，蠻習慣的，可是現在卻覺得有點怕。
Well, it’s the new year eve, what’s better to do than reflecting on the past year? Specifically, what I have learned from everything that I experienced in this amazing year.
Back in 2016, I wrote a little review on books I read that year (2016 list), using 3 words only for each book. I didn’t do one last year so let me combine last year’s with this year’s list (yes, I cheated on some, stop nitpicking!).
I’ve interviewed a lot of people. Hundreds, probably, across decades in large accounting firms and advisory work where talent is effectively the product. I’ve also been on the other side of the table enough times to know what it feels like to want to say the right thing. One phrase has become nearly universal among…
Challenging the theory of evolution by Darwin today feels like what Darwin was trying to do back in the days.
香港人最常，最喜歡，又最討厭討論的議題一定是居住問題。 年輕的怕上不了車，賣掉的天天後悔，買到的想再多買一個。 大家人生好像沒有其他計劃，只要買房子就好了。
一個很常見的話題 – 我會給二十年前的我什麼人生建議？ 其實答案很簡單， 說什麼都沒用，因為那時候的我根本不會聽進去。特別是不會聽一個用二十年前的角度講事情的人。
前幾天在臉書看到朋友分享以下這張圖： 除了再次體會中文的深奧，最吸引我的是‘開心’。
過去幾年，一直聽到身邊的朋友討論希望搬到另外一個地方生活。 原因不外乎兩個，小孩教育、香港房價，可是講的多，做的少。為什麼？原因也不外乎幾個，怕其他地方沒工作機會，文化有差異，還有最重要的，會沒有那個任勞任怨的工人姐姐。說白了，一般香港家庭，沒工人姐姐已經是不能運作了，可以說是家不成家。
我不是很喜歡足球，可是也逃不了昨晚歐冠杯的討論。 聽說那個守門員害了他的球隊輸了一場可能二十年才有一次機會的球賽。
機緣巧合，三年前認識一位新創創辦人。 他做的是文化旅遊。 沒錯，一件我一點都不能領會、體會的事，更不要說一門生意。 可是那時候剛進創業圈，也是一家共享空間媒合的，好吧，試試看吧！
這禮拜是“合作寫馬拉松”的第二次啟航。 新夥伴提議寫“媽媽”，本來是一個很好的題目，又剛好接近母親節，理論上應該是很好寫的。 可是我想了一個禮拜，什麼都想不到，更不要說開始寫。 （不要誤會，我跟我媽媽感情很好，她也非常健在，可是就是想不到什麼事情！）
When Google demonstrated its AI assistant booking a restaurant and a hair salon appointment, my social media feed lit up. The reactions split roughly in two: technologists marvelling at the engineering, everyone else marvelling at the magic. Both groups largely missed the point. Let me offer a different read. First: respect the hard problem If…
I’ve spent recent weeks talking to corporates and startups about innovation. The conversations were different in tone. The underlying problem was identical. Everyone is trying to innovate. Almost no one has stopped to question whether their process for doing so is actually capable of producing it. First, a definition worth taking seriously Innovation is genuinely…
How much do we really know about ourselves? Can we really observe our feelings from a distance?
This is not my first prediction of the future. Yet, after reading another book on this topic, I just can’t help but to try write another random one. Be warned. These are extremely random and most of them are without their appropriate justifications (I can write more if I get any questions). In fact, I…
前幾天，一家我已經幫忙很久的startup打來問我，如何找合夥人？ 這位年輕的創業家，居然在香港搞文化產業也做出不錯的成果，可是一直以來他都是single founder。 這件事讓我想到合夥人這個議題。
又一次參加這個台灣創業營，又一次帶給我新的體會。
Another night of drinking, another night of great company with my business partner. And the same theme keeps on re-appearing: business is all about people.
Here is a cliche question: what would be your single most important advice to your younger self? To me it’s extremely simple. The world is fucked up.
One of the most interesting phenomenon I observe in the startup ecosystem is that everyone assumes startups need help – a lot of help. Therefore everyone is offering mentorship, training, advising, sharing (paid or pro bono), and of course a lot of grants too… Is this right?
I have been thinking of buying a new laptop computer for a while. And then I saw this….
Empathy is in… “the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively”
今天給一位前輩提醒，說我應該更實時地把一些想法紀錄下來。 好吧！ 不知不覺在這個所謂創業圈混了好一陣子了，當中有一些遊戲規則我是覺得挺有趣的。
邱遊寡段 