This was originally a thread on Twitter. Many found it useful so here’s an article form. I entered the telecoms industry in end 2017 and no sooner did I realize that the topic of 5G was taking the communications world by storm. Thus the big question I had in 2018…

I have a short attention span. I need to ‘do’ and ‘relate’ in order to learn. I need to get my hands dirty and pick up a paper and pen. I am embarrassingly ill disciplined and also really need learning to be fun. …

Friends often ask me why I’ve always stuck to B2B communications (with the exception of my time in Airbnb doing internal communications). Well, I think B2B marketing is sexy. The older, the more traditional, the sexier. And this week, I met someone who thought the same. Anders Bjorklund, CEO of…

With great power comes great responsibility. Current climate hints at the availability of resources and technology leadership as indications of power. Think Elon Musk, Amazon, Meta (previously Facebook), Alphabet, Airbnb — they come under significantly greater scrunity than our mom and pop shops. My sense is that we tend to…

When am I? Where am I? I had these questions when I stepped out of Singapore Changi Airport, visiting my home country after 2.5 years of living abroad. As I looked out the car window, sights, sounds and boy, the heat! They all felt so familiar, yet so foreign. I…

There are many ways to attempt answering “how does the world work?”. We’re all trying to understand how we function, as humans (cue social sciences), and beyond, extending into psychics, astronomy and all the sciences including chemistry, biology, etc. …

Connectivity gives us the chance to increase our social capital — to reach and connect with people and communities we otherwise wouldn’t have access to. It helps us challenge the social strata and the life opportunities we were ‘prescribed’. Examples to illustrate my sociology mumbo jumbo: Job seekers, entrepreneurs &…

The evolution of tech and its ability to help us communicate better has also brought about the opportunity for us to communicate more. So what I’m getting at here is that access to tech helps us listen and to be listened to. Any advertising space that gives you an opportunity…

The second installment of a “Talking to… <insert community>” in bullets. What’s this about? Establishing rapport with tech analysts Who? Tech analysts: devices, telecoms infrastructure, tech trends How to best build a rapport? Neil Shah gives tips. Who’s Neil Shah? Analyst and Co-Founder at Counterpoint Research Telecom engineer & passionate about wireless technologies Responds faster on…