Cedric Chin

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Cedric Chin

Word slinger, bug fixer, and operator.

Just F**cking Ship

Amy Hoy's guide to shipping side projects, books, businesses and software — basically, any product you'd like to launch.

Using Head Fake Questions To Achieve Your Career Goals

'Head fake questions' are a useful tool to avoid the opportunity cost that comes from making bad career moves. Here's how to use them.

Don't Take Generic Business Advice From VCs

If you want to start a business as your career moat, don't go looking to startup culture for business advice. Startup wisdom is far less useful than you think.

Breaking Out of the SME Loop, A Story

A story of a Singaporean SME, breaking out of the SME loop.

Chinese Businessmen: Maybe Strategy Matters

Small businesses don't grow large by accident. But most hit an invisible ceiling on the way up. Does strategy matter for breaking past this ceiling?

Is the FIRE Movement a Good Idea?

FIRE — 'financial independence, retire early' is a movement that's taking off amongst millennial knowledge workers. We explore how this relates to career strategy.

Chinese Businessmen: Superstition Doesn't Count

If rationality is so important to success in business and in life, how is it possible for an entire generation of superstitious Chinese businessmen to succeed?

All Marketers Are Liars

Seth Godin's 2005 book is about the practice of marketing in a world of noise. Most of these ideas are now conventional wisdom.

Chinese Businessmen: Let Reality Be The Teacher

Education robs us of the ability to do trial and error. And yet trial and error is how a generation of traditional Chinese businessmen learnt their craft.

Radical Candor

Kim Scott's 2017 book is a how-to guide for the people-side of management. Read as a follow-up to Andy Grove's High Output Management.