I'm going to constantly come back to this entry. It's really a list of stuff I thought and said that I believe to be flawed or just wrong. It serves as a constant reminder that the world though small, is still more significant in the sum of its parts than my often too-big-for-my-britches mindset.
1. "If you're not updating Facebook, how do I find out what you've been up to?"
Call. Arrange for a meet up. Get them out for a cup of coffee. That's what friends do.
2. "Your business NEEDS to scale out of Singapore"
Background: Singapore is a really small country, with a population of less than 6mil. If you're working in tech and B2B, it's more often than not the market is too small to support a handful of competitors, so people starting (hyper-)local businesses often have to think about how to expand beyond the country's shores. If you're considering B2C, for highly disruptive products, you have a number of really conservative customers who would not be willing to fork out their hard-earned money for s