Jeffery Tan

THE WRITER IS A LAWYER AND SENIOR ACCREDITED DIRECTOR OF THE SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF DIRECTORS. HE SERVES ON SEVERAL BOARDS INCLUDING THE GLOBAL GUIDING COUNCIL OF ONE MIND AT WORK AND THE SGLISTCOS COUNCIL

Psychologists have long distinguished solitude from loneliness. Loneliness is unwanted isolation. Solitude is chosen aloneness – and increasingly recognised as restorative rather than harmful.
SWITCHING LANES

What I’ve learnt from solitude in retirement

2026-07-31T23:00:00.000Z
Fifa sparked global controversy when it rescinded the red card given to US striker Folarin Balogun amid pressure from US President Donald Trump to review the decision.

The Fifa red card fiasco is a mirror for governance

2026-07-09T09:00:00.000Z
Singapore’s next generation of listed companies has the potential to reshape perceptions of the local equity market.

The new currency of markets is narrative; SGX companies must learn to master it

2026-06-07T23:00:00.000Z
Expanding the senior counsel designation to include general counsel would require a redefinition of what it signals to the courts, the profession and the public.
THE BROAD VIEW

Should Singapore’s senior counsel title include corporate general counsel?

2026-05-22T23:00:00.000Z
Many of our social and corporate systems are built to favour those who can project confidence, command airtime and manage upwards.

The quiet cost of a noisy workplace

2026-04-30T23:00:00.000Z
Routine work will be automated. Information will become more accessible. But the enduring value of the lawyer will not disappear.
THE BROAD VIEW

Why the best general counsels shape risk, not avoid it

2026-04-17T22:30:00.000Z
Alexander Stubb, Finland's president, offers a quietly compelling lesson on how resilience in geopolitics is less about rigid doctrines and more about pragmatic adjustment.
THINKING ALOUD

Pragmatism in an age of uncertainty

2026-04-01T23:00:00.000Z
If children generate positive externalities – fiscal, social and strategic – then public co-investment should mirror that reality across the life cycle.
THINKING ALOUD

Children are national assets. Our support must reflect that

2026-03-04T23:00:00.000Z
In an era of longevity and shifting work norms, the question is no longer how to stop working - but how to start living differently.
SWITCHING LANES

Retirement isn’t a finale – it’s a strategic pivot

2026-02-20T23:00:00.000Z
The question is not whether technology replaces human care, but whether it can stand in when human presence is absent.
THINKING ALOUD

Growing old alone with technology as the last quiet witness

2026-02-04T22:30:00.000Z