“You can only connect the dots looking backward.” We’ve all heard that Steve Jobs quote a million times. But it hits very differently depending on where you’re standing in your life. Looking at my own career so far (moving from management consulting to early-stage startups, then into big tech sales, and now running Neverdrift), none […]

For a long time, I thought answering everything within minutes was the definition of high performance. If a client or colleague reached out, I dropped what I was doing and wrote a detailed reply. Speed felt like reliability. It took me ten years to realize that my fast replies were actually costing me: What happened […]

I attended an AI learning event last week and as I reflected on the discussions, this question was the top one that surfaced for me: If AI increasingly makes execution faster and easier, what actually becomes more valuable? Right now, there is a collective anxiety around AI. A constant pressure to keep up. Try the […]

When I launched the Reflection Quiz back in January, I wrote about why giving people language for their experience mattered so much to me. I wanted to help people move away from “I don’t know what’s wrong with me” and toward “Oh, this is where I am, and this is why it makes sense.” in […]

2018: A small personal project Neverdrift started as a space where friends could slow down and reflect on where their lives were actually heading. I wasn’t thinking about a business. I was thinking about a gap I kept seeing between what people were building externally and how they felt on the inside. 2020: Everything shifted […]

I have always felt proud and grateful over our strong passport, our beautiful Changi Airport and incredibly service-oriented Singapore Airlines. Every time I fly, I’m reminded of why our standards are world-renowned. I recently came back from my recent trip to Europe and wanted to pen down my reflections for the timely National Day weekend […]

“I always have to do things right. If I were actually smart enough, I’d already know how to handle this.” If that internal dialogue sounds familiar, you aren’t alone. Many high-functioning professionals spend an exhausting amount of energy managing outcomes: the exact quality of a deliverable, the tone of a Slack message, or the outcome […]

Nobody prepares you for what happens after you finally achieve the goal you spent years chasing. Whether it’s signing the offer letter for your dream role or stepping into the healthy relationship you prayed for, you’d think the fear would vanish the moment the wanting is over. It doesn’t. If you’ve ever reached a major […]