Conference season is once more in full swing in Asia, and as anyone worth their salt in the industry will tell you; the dirty little secret is that the core value of any such event lies not in the conference itself but in the side parties. As with any conference, the real value is to…

Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow. Though those four words may not immediately mean anything to you, those four phases of a cycle have revolutionised your entire life. You may not realise it, but you benefit from them every single day, you most likely used that cycle thousands or millions of times today. First invented almost 150…

Bitcoin is risky. It’s a volatile asset. even the most ardent bitcoiner would be at pains to deny that (though some do try). But what occured to me recently is that it would be possible to build a portfolio for any risk appetite, using bitcoin only. This idea is true of almost any publicly traded…

A famous investing adage goes: “Concentrated bets grow wealth. Diversification preserves wealth” Going all-in on Bitcoin was the concentrated bet that changed my life. It turbo-charged my net worth from a quarter of a million to nearly five million. It was the best-performing asset of the past decade, and I still believe it has plenty…

The number. It is everything in FIRE circles. Your number. When I worked at the large crypto exchange, one of the Chinese guys walked up to me one day and asked, “What’s your number?” We were already connected, and his body language made it clear he wasn’t asking for my phone number. I knew exactly…

After I stopped working, I promised myself I would take on challenges simply because I could. No deadlines. No clients. No targets. Just the freedom to choose how I spend my time. The SSI Divemaster course on Gili Trawangan became my first major “I can do whatever I want” project. On paper it was about…

A classic trope of retirement is that you want to be invested in something that produces cashflow to replace the income you earned when working. For many people that is their pension, for others it might be a rental property portfolio. In typical investment vehicles that would typically be investments in bonds or companies that…

This question has been doing the rounds on x this week, with people suggesting it is a the most dull and or pretentious question. The fact is, people like to ask what people do for a living when meeting new people. It helps us contextualise the person, offer some understanding of their background, and potentially…