Scholars see their world in disciplinary literature reviews and reading lists, in gaps rather than working to solve wicked problems that mandate a broader pedagogy of thinking and tinkering.

Singaporean Excellence on full display in its vaccination campaign.

I have been coaching talented individuals since i was 18, and one thing i can say with certainty is that one learns a lot more than the person by coaching (from their mistakes for instance) and that our education systems have failed to prepare the mind (and for life), and that we have a mental health crisis on our hands in this pandemic.

Rote learning prepares you for exams based on a template, rather than for black swans such as the pandemic.

Suppose you have been trained for the hospitality, aviation or retail sectors, and one has to now do things which are deeply uncomfortable which one is not ready. How do our labour geographies intersect with the mega trends of the day?

There is too much pressure to define oneself as per the neat categorisations of the LinkedIn header. Agile should not only be an adjective, let us embrace the verb too. Life is messy.