This album is 40 years old today. From 1986. Still one of my personal favourites. The Cure. Standing on a Beach.

Do Return-to-Office mandates help or hurt ordinary workers? In the Philippines, it depends on who you ask. medium.com/@victorferna...

The first issue of v0id deck, a Singapore-based Hacker zine is out! check it out now. I got a small article on one of the more interesting but lesser-known places to visit in SG. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonath...

The Philippines Is Not Ready for a Super El Niño This is how climate change stops being environmental and becomes economic. www.linkedin.com/posts/vrocam...

The Invisible Swiss Algorithm Running Singapore’s Economy: Basel drawn rules make Singapore’s banks safer, but also more cautious about lending. www.linkedin.com/posts/vrocam...

The Idea of Resilience Needs to Evolve in the Philippines The Philippines has built a global reputation on resilience. Filipinos endure, adapt, and bounce back. But beneath that is a harder truth. www.linkedin.com/posts/vrocam...

Singapore’s long-running advantage was extreme efficiency, but the 2026 Iran crisis is showing that a system optimized for predictability can become fragile when trade and energy flows turn unstable.dundancy, slack, and resilience. www.linkedin.com/posts/vrocam...

I totally agree with Mr. King.

What Happens When a Whole Country Starts Thinking Like an Algorithm? www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-h...

Wars may now be shaped less by events than by narratives that predefine how those events are understood—eroding trust and accelerating escalation. www.linkedin.com/posts/vrocam...

Please help Alaa's family survive Israel's genocide with their newborn baby. Her husband is a prisoner of the occupation.

Here's my latest piece about agentic AI on e27 - e27.co/the-coming-i...

My latest post on LinkedIn: It won’t begin with layoffs—but with silence, as AI quietly absorbs white-collar work across Southeast Asia, compressing career ladders in Singapore, destabilizing the Philippines’ BPO engine, and widening inequality in Indonesia. www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-a...

From Anonymous👻 to Accountable 🙇‍♀️: How Age Checks Are Rewiring the Internet Age verification is rapidly evolving into core internet infrastructure that shifts online access from anonymity to identity mediation. www.linkedin.com/pulse/age-ve...

If your company passed its cybersecurity audit, are you actually secure? In Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem, many companies assume -- compliance equals security. How prepared do you think Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem really is? www.linkedin.com/posts/vrocam...

The present Middle East confrontation is exposing a new form of conflict: infrastructure warfare targeting the digital systems that power modern economies. The Expanding Battlefield: Why Data Centres Matter in Geopolitics www.linkedin.com/pulse/expand...

I see a pattern here...

The next identity problem isn't human. It's AI. Here's my new very short article on agentic AI. www.linkedin.com/posts/vrocam...

Here's an interesting FB video on the original Limits of Growth study. www.facebook.com/share/v/1Kib...

Happy International Women's Day!

Just sharing my analysis of the socio-economic effects of the latest war in the Middle East on the Philippines - www.philstar.com/opinion/2026...

A $100,000 dollar US missile, launched by a $20 million plane that flies at a cost of $6,000 dollars/hour to kill people who live on less than $3 a day in Iran.

What’s one data point or on-the-ground signal in the Philippines that you’re seeing (in your company or city) that tells you that the country is moving toward — or away from — real productivity-led growth?

My latest LinkedIn post - What if the Philippines’ growth story is quietly approaching its ecological limits — and the real challenge of the 2020s is not accelerating faster, but stabilizing before overshoot turns progress into decline? www.linkedin.com/pulse/philip...

Happy Chinese New Year!

Absolutely dangerous fool.

So say we all.

This is what our world sorely needs.

“Know your parasites.” Ticks. Worms. Billionaires. Different problems, different treatments. 🦠💸 New in London UK!

Trump‘s execs run up MASSIVE expenses at the Kennedy Center while artists and staff panic over their jobs. New receipts show senior MAGA-installed executives running up thousands of dollars ìn fine dining and luxury hotels as attendance craters and the institution slid toward chaos.

Yup.

Please do not show this movie on a plane or any manner of moving vehicle.

I really do not recognize the US these days. This is not the place I had wanted to be a part of, and where so much of my extended family lives. Release the Epstein files now.

There is no other word to describe this but "genocide".

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who do nothing about it. " --- Albert Einstein Impeach him now.

Best in show?

So true... (by Jonathan Strahan)

Happy 2026 everyone. Here are my thoughts about what could be a very turbulent but momentous Year. www.linkedin.com/posts/vrocam...

I truly love this old quote.

Season's greetings to all, especially those experiencing the following:

Please respect the importance of the TBR pile...

This is magnificent. The Ndlovu Youth Choir stated that their intention was to imagine what the song may have sounded like had Zanzibar-born Queen frontman Freddie Mercury never left Africa. Check it out - youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?...

So sad to hear about the passing of John Varley. His Gaea trilogy was one of my favourite book series as a youth.

IMHO, instead of leaning into simple rhetoric, leaders should instead focus on evidence-based planning, worker upskilling, and responsible deployment, not vague predictions that amplify fear without offering concrete solutions. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Maybe it's not too late?

Yup.

Taxing people for reading s a really stupid move.

Another reason to buy coffee from small, local stores.

This Holiday season please support your local booksellers instead of billionaires.

Thank you for all your warm greetings on my birthday! I would love to spend some quality time with each and every one of you in the coming year - either here in Singapore or when I travel overseas. With @patmulles.bsky.social