I often joke that I’m so spoilt by the free food in Google I can no longer survive in the outside world because I’ve lost the ability to exchange money for food. There was precisely one day, 18 May 2005, when the...
Read MoreWhen I grow up, I want to be just like me.
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Editorial about my work in the School of Personal Growth.
Read MoreAt the age of 38, I finally figured out what I when to be when I grow up. When I grow up, I want to be some combination of Warren Buffett, Barack Obama, and the Dalai Lama: A calm, highly intelligent, deeply wise and...
Read Morehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jan/15/religion-buddhism-google Searching for enlightenment Is Google’s ‘school of personal growth’ a spiritual boon or corporate fig leaf? Ed Halliwell...
Read MoreI have three insights about doing great things and achieving major breakthroughs, and they all turn out to be contradictions. Exhilarating Discomfort Making a commitment to achieve a breakthrough is very exciting, but very...
Read MoreMeng’s self-discovery of the day: It turns out that when I do something “semi-randomly”, the extend of randomness is the part that is random.
Read More1. The Ultimate Hedging Strategy Buy a piece of furtile land with access to fresh water. Learn to farm. Stock up on ammunition. Lots. Invest in making your neighbours like you enough to not want you dead. Bury pieces of gold in...
Read MoreI saw David Copperfield in Las Vegas in 2007. But before I could ask him to take a photo with me, he disappeared.
Read MoreI can’t make up my mind what the prognosis is for China. There are 2 diametrically opposing hypotheses, both seem possible and reasonable. One hypothesis says China will prosper and become the biggest, richest, most...
Read MoreIt turns out that the CIA has been making friends in Afghanistan by giving Viagra to Afghan chieftains. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/25/AR2008122500931.html?hpid=topnews Q: How do you tell which...
Read MoreI had to wake up early this morning to send my in-laws to the airport. And then it occured to me, waking up early is my version of Daylight Saving Time.
Read MoreThere are 2 ways to inflate one’s own sense of self-importance. One is to think that people love me. The other is to think that people hate me. In reality, I discovered, people just ignore me.
Read MoreEvery year, right about this time, I get annoyed that Christmas happens in late December, right when the weather sucks. Constantine could have chosen any day of the year to be Christmas Day, but instead of choosing a nice...
Read MoreA joke my 9-year-old Angel made up: There was a man who came to a ‘Stop’ sign. He stopped for an hour and caused a lot of traffic. A police officer came by and asked the man, “Why aren’t you...
Read MoreWhen I go to a bar, I expect to see a bunch of crazy people saying nice things about me. You know, complimentary nuts.
Read MoreI strive hard to be lazy. I’m selfishly compassionate. I desire to not want. Sometimes, I’m not myself. Often, I’m not here, where I am. I actively engage in non-activity. I feel spiritual about my earthly...
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I was invited to write this special column in the Straits Times for National Day in Singapore. I...
Read More星期天联合早报 http://www.zaobao.com/special/face2face/pages1/face2face080803.shtml 谷歌首名新加坡雇员陈一鸣 名人访谷歌都要同他合照 陆彩霞 (2008-08-03) 他的名字取自楚庄王“一鸣惊人”的故事，而他也相信自己有一天能成就惊世之举。...
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Story about me in MyPaper, Singapore’s first bilingual newspaper.
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