Randolph Yew

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  • Think like an owner

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    This is part of a series “Lessons from my internship experience” # 3 In the workplace, people tend to focus on getting the work done. I get it – in the department in which I interned, most of the employees are extremely busy. They just have to spend the hours to produce the promised output…

  • Ask more. Opportunities favor the willing

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    This is part of a series “Lessons from my internship experience” # 2 Before this internship, I had a short summer internship in an architectural firm. It was my first time working in a company and I was definitely inexperienced behaving as a good mentee/employee. I recalled many behaviors and habits that may hurt myself…

  • Suffer fools gladly

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    This is part of a series “Lessons from my internship experience” # 1 They say that comparison is a thief of joy. Most people use it as an antidote to envy and insecurity, but I use it differently. If you are ambitious, driven, and risk-taking, you will be disappointed how rare a specimen you are…

  • Harsh Truths about Data Analysis

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    In extremely layman terms, data analysis is the skill of using Excel very well. But to be precise, it is the skill of getting, transforming, and presenting structured data to inform decisions. Either you are assessing your company’s growth, controlling your inventory, sales, and factory performance, navigate industry and media trends, modelling stock prices, or…

  • How to really learn faster

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    When I was younger, I am always short of achieving my goals. I didn’t know why, but I felt deeply disappointed when that happened, especially for goals that I has huge importance for me. In university, I went hardcore in improving every aspect of my life and managed to achieve some of my goals. It…

  • I spent 631 dollars on real estate sustainability conferences so you don’t have to

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    The real estate is evolving fast. Lower interest rates, contech, AI, alternative investments and sustainability – for an outsider, the rapid changes and their complex interactions can appear wildly confusing. Since I plan to join the built environment industry after I graduate, I was anxious when I realized I felt the same. So, for the…

  • Looking from the bottom: how to run a business by a frustrated intern

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    I found this company as I was researching for a sustainability-related competition. I was inspired by the firm’s achievement, especially in what I thought to be pushing the frontier of sustainability in Singapore. They are a decentralized water treatment company which basically means that they recycle wastewater for individual factories, residential precinct and institutions –…

  • The purpose of this website

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    I seems natural to have opinions about things, especially when you have been reading somehow critically for some period of time. The brain, surrounded by a galore of knowledge, before ossified by age or convention, exudes its perennial plasticity by associating those new ideas, finding new interpretations, devaluing some discovery, and sometimes — when the…