Wai Hong Fong

Okay, let's address the elephant in the room. It's been quiet here. Like, really quiet. My last post was sometime back in the whirlwind of 2020 – back when 'pivot' became everyone's least favorite word and we were all figuring things out on the fly. So, where have I been for the last four years? Short answer: in the trenches. Building. Mostly StoreHub. Turns out, scaling a tech company across Southeast Asia, especially navigating a global pandemic (remember launching Beep Delivery in basicall

In these tough times, I hear a lot of people talking about grit and resilience. That it's important to hang in there and tough it out. But I think it takes more than toughness to thrive in crisis. It takes being Anti-fragile. To explain this concept, imagine a glass bottle falling on the floor. It breaks. It's fragile. A piece of rock falls on the same floor. It doesn't break. Is it anti-fragile? No. The opposite of fragile - breaking easily, is not that you don't break when force is appli

"I love you guys" An unexpected message shot across my phone screen from a close friend. What sparked the random expression of a deep emotion, I wondered. "A close relative just got cancer. Brain. Stage 4" My heart sank. Feelings of injustice and sadness overwhelmed me. What else can you feel, when a 45 year old is handed a card like this. 2020 has been a year of many such reminders. Kobe, 41. Chadwick, 43. Some would make a case for living unabashedly and with no regrets - the YOLO movem