About Me
The Person
I'm a confused Singaporean striving to learn widely and apply deeply. Theory is great but skin-in-the-game is better. I stray away from viewing the world in black or white. Living in the gray sits right with me. Given the ambiguity, I value having a set of broad principles to guide my thinking.
I consider myself a generalist with the ambition to be above average in a unique mix of domains.
I'm happiest when I discover a new “theory” that reframes the world — a small step-change in how I think.
These days I graze on current affairs, general knowledge, and the occasional meme.
The Site
This project is a node of interconnecting thoughts and interests — part diary, part time capsule, part contemplation.
Timeline
2025 – Present
Further leaning into hydrogen, manufacturing and the hard hardware industries; second Graduate studies in nanotechnology and materials science; trade association responsibilities, surfing and sun
2021 – 2024
An era marked by learning to be a Chief of Staff, stepping up in military responsibility, obsession with Napoleon's marshals, seeding interest into material science, an an intentionality of creation over consumption: this website, cooking, writing and poetry
2017 – 2020
Early career building. Developed a desire to framework everything, a macro stuff like development economics, complexity science, sustainability and geopolitics. Change in environment forced a confrontation with the self.
2012 – 2016
Student years, marked by a realization that I am not an engineer. In another life, perhaps philosophy or economics would have been my favored field. Formative intellectual years and exposure in my masters in Cambridge. (Which I will summarise as an aspiring tribe of ratchet intellectuals). Cooking, travelling,