Mark Cheong

"Amid all the talk... one solution remains curiously absent: progressive taxation of the ultra-rich. Malaysia is not a poor country. The problem is not a lack of resources, but it is the lack of political courage to tax accumulated wealth and the ultra-rich."

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

One of the things that I’m guaranteed to get after being on social media for a given amount of time is feeling unaccomplished, inadequate, and not living up to that illusionary bar called my potential. Stay off your phones, kids.

Annoyed - and when annoyed, write long emails, even to people I’m not annoyed at. 😤

Once again, I would like to say that we all agree that KKM needs more money. What is in question is whether RakanKKM is the right way/only way/best way to do so.

One of the things I worry about with the rise of AI is that we slowly lose what we gain through the uncomfortable and difficult process of figuring things out.

Some useful answers for the difficult questions at the end of life. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

One of the things I've noticed in my 5th decade of life is that so many things with me are different. How I read, how I learn, and how I express myself are so different from what I used to know as my way of doing things. There's a lot to unpack here but for now, it's surprising.

"Musk said that the great weakness of Western civilization is empathy. You fool. Empathy is the glue of humanity. It is the basis of civilization." nytimes.com/2025/07/13/art…