Stoicism Essay
Absorbing Singapore’s 12.5 percent tariff keeps the customer and moves the loss onto you.
On andreia, and the phone call a Singapore founder owes an American buyer three days after MAS steepened the dollar band.
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AI Essay
Saudi Arabia struck inside Iraq on 28 July, five months after refusing the war
Thirty IRGC-directed drone attacks in 72 hours on Saudi oil facilities converted the one Gulf state that had denied Washington overflight rights into a co-belligerent.
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AI Essay
Thailand took the data centres. Singapore filed 82 percent of the applications.
Singapore-domiciled entities filed US$33.2 billion of Thailand’s US$40.5 billion in first-half foreign applications, in the same half that only 20 megawatts of new data-centre capacity went under construction at home.
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Health Essay
Three hours a week erased half of muscle ageing’s molecular signature
A Nature Aging cohort found 55.9 percent of the age-related upregulation in trained older muscle absent, and named the genes that training never touched.
The numbers
Playbooks
Operators on the record — how a real SEA business actually makes its money, from the CÈ interview desk.
Artificial Intelligence
On the systems being built, and the sovereignty questions they are quietly asking of the region.
Essay
Saudi Arabia struck inside Iraq on 28 July, five months after refusing the war
Thirty IRGC-directed drone attacks in 72 hours on Saudi oil facilities converted the one Gulf state that had denied Washington overflight rights into a co-belligerent.
Essay
Thailand took the data centres. Singapore filed 82 percent of the applications.
Singapore-domiciled entities filed US$33.2 billion of Thailand’s US$40.5 billion in first-half foreign applications, in the same half that only 20 megawatts of new data-centre capacity went under construction at home.
Essay
China just made a chipmaker its most valuable company. It is three years behind where the war is.
China’s record IPO put a US$488 billion valuation on catching up in memory. Japan’s own catch-up took a decade, and the part that decides AI is the part money moves slowest.
Founders
Long, unhurried profiles of the operators shaping the region's next decade.
Interview
BeLive’s founder on the pivot, the takeover, and the number he skipped
The BeLive founder tests every large call against arithmetic, which explains the platform he killed, the takeover he refused, and the one question he would not answer.
Essay
Temasek is moving up to S$78 billion into AI, and four of its five targets are businesses a startup cannot become
Temasek will take AI-related exposure from six percent of a S$518 billion book to as much as fifteen by 2031; read the five segments it named and the founder’s market turns out to be on the buyer’s side of the ledger.
Interview
Repricing after ten years (the advisers never looked at his results)
Allan Ling built two agencies on execution, burned out on both, and is now trying to sell judgement instead. The interesting part is what he did when he was contradicted.
Modern Health
Modern medicine, longevity, and the limits of optimisation.
Essay
Three hours a week erased half of muscle ageing’s molecular signature
A Nature Aging cohort found 55.9 percent of the age-related upregulation in trained older muscle absent, and named the genes that training never touched.
Essay
Semaglutide slowed four epigenetic clocks in a randomised trial, and left a fifth unmoved
A 32-week randomised trial moved DunedinPACE, PhenoAge and two GrimAge clocks on weekly semaglutide; the Intrinsic Capacity clock, built to track how well a body still works, did not shift.
Essay
Burnout as a pricing problem (n=1, anecdotal, and the mechanism is still worth reading)
The WHO’s three burnout dimensions describe a relationship to the work, not a quantity of it. One Singapore operator’s decade is a clean, if uncontrolled, illustration.
Stoicism
An applied philosophy for people who still have to make decisions, treated as intellectual discipline rather than wellness.
Essay
Absorbing Singapore’s 12.5 percent tariff keeps the customer and moves the loss onto you.
On andreia, and the phone call a Singapore founder owes an American buyer three days after MAS steepened the dollar band.
Essay
Anthropic prices what you sell at $15 a million tokens. You get no vote.
On the dichotomy of control, and the founder whose gross margin is reset each morning by a price she gets no vote in.
Essay
Kenneth Tan left DeNA and learned how much of his judgement was the job title.
On phronesis, and the month a Singapore founder found out how much of his judgement had been his job title.
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