Chan_Yuk_Chi

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97% of all satellites don't have insurance but now a startup is fixing that(payloadspace.com)
3 points by Chan_Yuk_Chi 2y ago|0 comments
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by Chan_Yuk_Chi 2y ago
Lmfao just kidding. Here's what I learned about life, living on borrowed time, and how to conquer death (by starting a space company).
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How Space Companies Lose Money(sorryspeakup.substack.com)
3 points by Chan_Yuk_Chi 5y ago|0 comments
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Three Dangerous Stories(sorryspeakup.substack.com)
2 points by Chan_Yuk_Chi 5y ago|0 comments
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Cooperation is a Learned Behaviour(sorryspeakup.substack.com)
2 points by Chan_Yuk_Chi 5y ago|0 comments
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by Chan_Yuk_Chi 5y ago
Years ago, I became immune to having reactions to mosquito bites after getting bitten over a hundred times in a 20-hour timespan by at least 3 types of mosquitoes, one of which was Aedes Aegypti (the stripey bastards that carry Dengue Fever
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by Chan_Yuk_Chi 5y ago
Not naive at all. This is an accurate picture of how we were taught to approach decisions - that every soldier was someone's child, someone's sibling, someone's loved one. As leaders, our decisions didn't carry just the
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by Chan_Yuk_Chi 5y ago
This is a much more accurate reflection of how the military handles empathy. Empathy is in no means antithetical to professionalism. If anything, empathy is a key trait for effective leadership because it engenders trust between leaders and
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by Chan_Yuk_Chi 5y ago
Well he did eventually lose at Zama to Scipio, but I get your point.
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by Chan_Yuk_Chi 5y ago
This isn't an article about winning wars, and I'm not advocating that building great teams is a guarantor of success. This is a guide for those who have decided on their own that they want to focus on building a great team, becaus
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by Chan_Yuk_Chi 5y ago
Precisely this. I wrote this as a rebuke of assertions that lessons in the military are only valid in the military, and that they aren't useful elsewhere because "this isn't the Army."
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by Chan_Yuk_Chi 5y ago
I personally served with plenty of Singaporean-Malays. My first Officer Commanding was Malay. The idea that their faith renders them a risk is not a view we hold.
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by Chan_Yuk_Chi 5y ago
Team-sports actually was an example I used in an initial draft re: professionalism (the idea that you leave everything on the field when the game ends) but I ultimately dropped it because I was stacking one analogy on top of another.
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Picking Co-Founders the Army Officer Way(sorryspeakup.substack.com)
97 points by Chan_Yuk_Chi 5y ago|64 comments