Critical Spectator

2022-06-09 06:41:49 Pretty much 3/4s of professionals in Singapore want to resign from their jobs this year, putting Great Resignation on steroids. Meanwhile, companies are scrambling to both retain talent and employ new workers, offering financial incentives, higher salaries and greater flexibility.

If you're thinking about taking your career to the next level the time is now. And better hurry as it's not going to last forever.

https://vulcanpost.com/790802/singapore-war-for-talent-74-percent-pmets-plan-to-quit Open / Comment

2022-06-08 15:50:16 In Singapore streets are safer than the internet (commercial crimes are pretty much all just scams etc.). Open / Comment

2022-06-08 05:34:58 Crime in Singapore surged by 30% last year - and over 50% since 2013. But why? What does it mean and what do police statistics really tell about safety in the Lion City.

Read in my latest on VP:
https://vulcanpost.com/790598/singapore-crime-shot-up-technology-to-blame Open / Comment

2022-05-29 03:26:17 Today: Malaysian chicken shortage in Singapore: https://www.facebook.com/CriticalSpectator/posts/4994203267354027 Open / Comment

2022-05-23 15:00:53 One more angle on the Terra Luna collapse and how Vitalik Buterin's ideas for regulation would - paradoxically - go further than any government has ever proposed.

It's both funny and worrying when people with this much influence over crypto don't really understand what they're talking about in terms of regulating it.

And bad regulation would be worse than no regulation at all.

https://vulcanpost.com/788731/vitalik-buterin-terra-luna-crypto-regulation Open / Comment

2022-05-23 01:28:11 I know I typically mock Singaporean activists for being ineffectual and self-absorbed but today I penned a few kind words about them and their efforts - which contribute surprisingly much to Singapore's war on drugs: https://www.facebook.com/CriticalSpectator/photos/a.806742819433447/4976817942425893/ Open / Comment

2022-05-22 03:46:04 Activists like to say that war on drug trade should focus on drug cartels and mob bosses instead of traffickers trying to make a few bucks.

Here I explain why that's not the case:

https://www.facebook.com/CriticalSpectator/photos/a.806742819433447/4973680422739645/ Open / Comment

2022-05-21 04:26:09 Singapore intercepted another - this time pretty large - haul of heroin across the border with 3 presumably "low IQ" Malaysians arrested.

What will the "activists" say this time? Actually, I think I do think I know and the best response is something I already published on FB in the past:

https://www.facebook.com/CriticalSpectator/posts/4971001079674246 Open / Comment

2022-05-19 05:35:12 And another take on tech and business, this time Sea's results - and it seems that nobody really knows what to make of them. With Covid bonanza over, its market capitalisation is down 80% and the Q1 2022 report reflects the mounting challenges ahead.

https://vulcanpost.com/788234/good-bad-ugly-sea-shopee-revenue-doubles-garena-hits-a-wall/ Open / Comment

2022-05-17 05:44:12 And in another reading today (a double whammy from me on VP) more about Vitalik Buterin's flirt with regulating crypto and how he used Singapore as an example of how Terra Luna collapse should have been handled: https://vulcanpost.com/787932/ethereum-founder-terra-luna-collapse-singapore/ Open / Comment