by nsoonhui | Apr 18, 2020 | book-review
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids? During the Covid-19 lockdown, if you felt like you had nothing to do, maybe someone jokingly suggested: why not make more babies? The Case Against Kids What? Aren’t kids nothing but trouble? Think about it — when they’re babies, they...
by nsoonhui | Apr 4, 2020 | book-review
When Alexander Fleming examined a mold that had developed accidentally on contaminated staphylococcus culture plate in 1928, he noticed that the culture prevented the growth of staphylococci, and he had no idea what he was really discovering. What he discovered would...
by nsoonhui | Mar 7, 2020 | book-review
Why are you in this or that business? Very few of us venture into a business just because we want to look good and make money; the truth is that we do it or found a company because we find a niche that we can serve and we get paid. This is the business 101: you...
by nsoonhui | Feb 8, 2020 | book-review
The pursuit of happiness is, ironically, the source of all unhappiness, declares Mark Manson, the author of “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a f*ck”. Living in this world, with all the modern facilities and instant entertainment, one should be very happy. We...
by nsoonhui | Jan 1, 2020 | book-review
Today is the start of 2020. A lot of us was and is enjoying our year end holiday. What did you do during your holiday? For me, it is a time of reflection and reading, and today I want to introduce a book that I read Lifespan: Why We Age– and Why We Don’t...
by nsoonhui | Oct 12, 2019 | book-review
Today ( 12.10) is my birthday, this is the day I turn 38. And today I would like to introduce two books: Enlightenment now, and Factfullness. Here are the two books that tell you the positive trends that your newspapers won’t tell you– that our lifespan is...