Colin Goh and Woo Yen Yen

My cousin Bryan is the genius in the Goh family. I’d like to think he’s the Mycroft Holmes to my Sherlock Holmes.

Crib sheet for non-geeks: Mycroft is Sherlock’s older, smarter brother. In ‘The Bruce-Partington Plans’, Holmes describes Mycroft thusly:

“The conclusions of every department are passed to him, and he is the central exchange, the clearinghouse which makes out the balance. All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.”

But in truth, I’m nowhere near a Sherlock (look, if I had any brains, I wouldn’t have left law for film), and Bryan is leagues above Mycroft (for one, he’s too intelligent and industrious to be a civil servant). The better comparison would be Pinky (me) and the Brain (him).

I have been in awe of his intellect since I was a kid, and his new blog on investments and economics proves my instincts to be absolutely correct. In the parlance of ordinary Singaporeans, “Cheem, ah!” The Goh family genes for financial talent have clearly been the subject of unequal distribution. For years, I thought a hedge fund had something to do with the landscaping industry…

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