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

Instead of treating retirement as the end of a long corporate climb, we should view it as a transition into a new, self-directed phase of life

Using up human time on a task that could be done better by a machine may seem inefficient, but it can be worthwhile.
Opinion & Features

The case for workplace inefficiency

Stop optimising. Start pronking

When rooms are in demand, the top of every hour ushers in the same scene: people rising from their desks and walking around with water bottles.
Opinion & Features

The excruciating quest for a meeting room

A tale of territorial ambition, power dynamics and water bottles

A more balanced approach is to invest in human capital while beginning modest supplementary planning.
Opinion & Features
SWITCHING LANES

The best investment in your 20s isn’t your portfolio

Why early retirement advice misses what actually compounds

Installation art 'Dynamics of a Dog on a Leash'. Watching a machine strain against a chain and seeing people empathise with its yearning to be free is a preview of one of the most quietly consequential shifts in AI.
Opinion & Features

Why do we feel empathy for robots?

The hardest governance problems may not be what these systems can do, but how they make us feel

Force Majeure, one of Pangdemonium's three scheduled productions in 2026, reimagines Chekhov's Three Sisters.
Lifestyle

Theatre company Pangdemonium to close in end-2026; current season’s shows unaffected

The decision to wind up company is a ‘purely personal’ one, say co-founders Tracie and Adrian Pang

Art SG staged its best edition since its 2023 debut.
Arts & Design
LIFE & CULTURE

Singapore Art Week 2026 review: 8 things we love – and 2 complaints

From the highs to the hiccups, here’s a round-up of the city’s biggest art festival

Learning a new language will require more than memorising new words and expressions; mastery comes when you wrap your head around patterns.
Opinion & Features

This one novel word speaks volumes about how an entire language works

Meet X也 – pronounced as ‘ta’

If your first instinct for every task is to ask an AI tool to give you a starting point, you are skipping the most vital part of thinking.
Opinion & Features

Is AI hurting your ability to think?

Here’s how to reclaim your brain

Ice baths not only help people recover from the stresses of modern life, but also offer environments conducive to socialising and networking.
Opinion & Features

Ice baths: Chilling proposition makes for hot business

Ice baths are fast-evolving into a multi-million dollar global industry as a result of growing demand

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