Kevin L

If— By Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with ...

A world of dew, A world of dew it is. And yet, and yet. ...

"What can you be paid for?" Don't be lazy. Go do your own research. ...

"What the world needs?" Having done more introspection, we now need to go beyond and consider the external circumstances. Asking a big question like this can be intimidating; not least because the needs of the world cannot quite be exhaustively listed down by an individual, nor be dealt with in that way. But I think we should start by understanding the draw of this question. It is actually about a sense of purpose. In other words, there might be things that the world needs but it does not reas...

"What do you love?" Identifying what you love is really about deep introspection and asking the right questions. So often, we are in love with the idea of being someone, being in a certain position that we are caught up in our minds with the moments of triumph and victory without recognising those moments of pains. Finding out what you love is as much about appreciating the sweetness of the victory as being able to withstand the bitterness of loss. Picture the Sweetness Whether it is victory i...

"What are you good at?" The beauty of the Ikigai system is that it tries to isolate the various different factors that drives you for something that you do. We tend to struggle with choice of what we want to do because there are different drivers and we are weighing across them. Today I'm just going to focus on identifying what one is good at. Ask Others We often find it difficult to come up with what we are personally good at because we belittle those things. They seem so easy to us and effor...

I’ve been looking at this framework for a while to draw out questions for coaching or mentorship purposes and that has been wonderful. I had wanted to write about it but never really got down to. As it turns out, those 4 questions that governs the 4 different mutually non-exclusive spheres is a powerful way of thinking about the way you devote time, effort and resources in life: What you are good at? What you love? What the world needs? What you can be paid for? I shall in the next couple of...

I’ve started an initiative to coach and guide young talents who have a passion for infrastructure to get into the sector. By that I mean to become equipped with the jargons, latest developments and knowledge tidbits about the industry so that they can be fluent enough to gain access to employment opportunities. Of course, they ought to develop that vision of their involvement in the sector as well. Infrastructure have never been quite an attractive area of work though a lot of the more prestigi...

This is in some sense my first entry. A test entry. But this is also in some sense the beginning of my journey with Standard Notes which is probably worth documenting. It's been a pretty amazing piece of software that has opened up a fresh new way to deal with text. And also in some sense a new paradigm for me when it comes to data. I used to, and still have lots of data locked up in various platforms. In some sense, I surrendered those data and content to someone else. And companies do make a l...