CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Roy Liang, General Manager of Oakwood Premier OUE Singapore Roy Liang is in the hospitality industry in Singapore as General Manager of Oakwood Premier OUE Singapore. What’s your story? I’m fortunate enough to have been in hospitality from the get-go. My whole professional life has been centred around my passion for the industry, a passion which began during my student days. My career has […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Catherine Molloy, Director of Auspac Business Advantage Catherine Molloy has enjoyed adapting to the Asian culture and way of life and is well and truly grounded across Asia with her businesses. What’s your story? We grow businesses and create courage and confidence through communication and our leadership programs. When I started my training company in 2010 I made a pledge to donate […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Ryan Len, Founder of The Workbench Ryan is on a learning curve as a designer and design educator. He believes your best bet to succeed is to keep reinventing yourself. What’s your story? I’m Ryan, a designer and design educator based in Singapore. I’ve been an entrepreneur since I was 17. This drive led me from one venture to another. Some […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Alan Pierce, Co-Founder of Ansuz Balder Magni Quarry An entrepreneur from the age of 9, Alan Pierce was destined to be a creative business man! What’s your story? I have lived in Europe, the Middle East, America and South East Asia and have travelled to over 35 countries and picked up Indonesian, English, French and hopefully in the next five years, Spanish. I […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Evangeline Leong, Founder & Director of Kobe Global Technologies Evangeline Leong’s business, Kobe is ‘redefining marketing.’ What’s your story? Upon graduating from University, I realised that my lifelong passion did not lie in my first career when I started out in a bank, despite the fame and glory of working in a bank. All along, the idea of marketing had always intrigued me. I […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Azan Tengku, CEO of Kalms Singapore Everything is negotiable – Azan’s mantra in business and life! What’s your story? I started my career on Wall Street, writing equity research reports for the buy – side. I then moved to fintech at Bloomberg and 5 years ago moved back to Singapore to manage their Southeast Asian research team. I left Bloomberg, 3 […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Min Chan, Director of Club Street Social Min Chan was brought up surrounded entertaining parents… She’s now taken her childhood exposure on board and started her own hospitality businesses. What’s your story? I am New York born and a Singapore, Hong Kong and NYC-bred former diplobrat, raised by hospitality obsessed parents who are constantly entertaining. I opened my first restaurant after working […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Joshua and Sarissa Schwartz, Founders & Managing Directors of SJS Group Joshua and Sarissa love the nightlife. They have several entertainment businesses across Asia including cocktail bars and a nightclub. What’s your story? I have been in the food and beverage industry for as long as I can remember. My first job was working at an Italian bakery (ok, it was an ice cream shop but […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Dennis Heng, Founder of Chain Reaction After being faced with witnessing a serious workplace accident, Dennis Heng helps put quality and safety at the forefront of all businesses. What’s your story? I develop systems, processes and people, and embed a company culture in quality and safety that helps eliminate the pain in business operations. Quality and safety co-exist in a system […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Collin Seow, Head trainer of The Systematic Trader Program Collin Seow is taking the emotion out of trading and helping punters invest and trade more wisely. What’s your story? 12 year ago as a new remisier, my client lost $250,000 in contra losses. The client decided to declare bankruptcy and didn’t want to pay for the losses. Though I was trading full time, I […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Greater Secrets Of Stonehenge Key Takeaway: A project involving archaeologists, astronomers, and photographers from English Heritage, Oxford, Leicester, and Bournemouth universities, as well as the Royal Astronomical Society, aims to study the lunar alignment at Stonehenge. The project aims to identify the layout of certain stones and the major lunar standstill, which occurs when the northernmost and southernmost moonrises […] Written by Fabio Silva April 22, 2024April 22, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Time May Not Exist Key Takeaway: Modern physics suggests that time may be an illusion, as Einstein’s theory of relativity suggests the universe is a static, four-dimensional block. J.M.E. McTaggart, an English philosopher, published a paper in 1908 arguing that time is unreal using logic alone. He proposed two ways to describe time: the “B-series” and the “A-series”. The […] Written by Matyás Moravec April 19, 2024April 19, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Inherent Risks Of A.I. Key Takeaway: Leading scientists and technologists often make terrible predictions about the direction of innovation, leading to misalignments between a company’s economic incentives to profit from its proprietary AI model and society’s interests in how the AI model should be monetised and deployed. Focusing on the economic risks from AI is not just about preventing […] Written by Mariana Mazzucato April 15, 2024April 15, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Psychology Of A Gentleman Key Takeaway: The Gentlemen, a TV series by Guy Ritchie, reimagines the age-old trope of a “gentleman” based on Middle English and French. The term originated from Middle English, referring to the English gentry, a class below nobility but above farmers. The concept of a gentleman is associated with higher competence, warmth, and positive connotations […] Written by Jayden Greenwell-Barnden April 12, 2024April 12, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Discovering Your Money Attachment Style Key Takeaway: The current economic climate is particularly concerning for young people, who are often financially worse off than their parents. To overcome this, it is important to understand one’s financial attachment style, which can be secure, anxious, or avoidant. Attachment theory, influenced by childhood experiences and education, can help shape one’s relationship with money. […] Written by Ylva Baeckstrom April 9, 2024April 9, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Proven 5 Steps To Psychological Wellness Key Takeaway: Wellness culture, which claims to provide happiness and meaning, has been criticized for its superficial focus on superficial aspects like candles and juice cleanses. Psychological research suggests that long-term wellbeing comes from a committed pursuit of both pleasure and meaning. Martin Seligman’s Perma model, which breaks wellbeing into five pillars: positive emotions, engagement, […] Written by Ben Gibson April 8, 2024April 8, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
When Will Quantum Computers Actually Become Practical? Key Takeaway: Quantum computing, which uses entanglement to represent information, has the potential to revolutionize everyday life. However, the development of quantum computers has been slow due to the need to demonstrate an advantage over classical computers. Only a few notable quantum algorithms have been developed, such as the BB84 protocol and Shor’s algorithm, which […] Written by Adam Lowe April 4, 2024April 4, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Rethinking Education Key Takeaways: The Industrial model of education that fueled the modern era and its dizzying reach did its job incredibly well. In his writing, Flynn illustrates study after study, spanning nations and decades, in which modern educational gift of abstraction — a transcendent sign of intelligence, as we saw in Raven’s Matrices — has been […] Written by Anthony Fieldman March 2, 2022October 19, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […] Written by Enrique Dans February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why You’re Not Seeing Success With Influencer Marketing With the new year around the corner, now is a good time to re-evaluate your past marketing strategies and gear up for the year ahead. For some businesses, influencer marketing has simply not seemed to live up to its lofty promises of genuine engagement, credibility, and transparency. Some have claimed that it has been failing […] Written by Michael Tan January 14, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A New Philosophy of Business I’m about to ask you to take a mental leap. For the next 8 minutes, suspend your notions of what a business is, and I’ll propose a new lens for you to look through. There are a lot of questions asked around what “community” means for business. “Where should community fit in my organization?” and […] Written by Empirics Asia September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked