Hello, I'm Daniel.

I treat the world as a laboratory.

It sounds a little like the sort of motto you might write on the cover of a notebook, but it is genuinely close to the way I have lived these past years. Some people turn life into a CV. I have more often turned mine into fieldwork. To me, the world is not a map waiting to be ticked off, nor a set of standard answers waiting to be memorised, but a vast, complicated, often bewildering scene that is all the more fascinating for it. You can study it, take part in it, question it, and sometimes be taught a lesson by it in return.

Over the years, I have built products, written code, started businesses, and moved back and forth between different cities and countries. I have been through internal ventures, and I once incorporated a company in Singapore with full blood and fire. I once stood on stages across Japan, Singapore, and other countries, speaking to hundreds of audiences, and also took the stage at UC Berkeley. I graduated from the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Strategy at Lancaster University Management School, and I spent a year and a half living in the UK. During that time, I loved going to the Lake District and lying on the grass watching the clouds. Coming at things from the angles of research and business, I began to think more seriously about entrepreneurship, organisations, choice, and the way the world works. As time has gone on, I have felt more and more that these experiences, scattered as they may seem, have all been circling the same question: how do people make sense of the world, and how do we find our place in an age that seems just a little overenthusiastic about change?

My work history is not exactly straightforward. I am a cross-border entrepreneur, and I have also long been a senior software engineer, technology consultant, and product builder. I talk about software and I talk about business; I can hold my own in AI, and I have written blockchain smart contracts; I have long remained curious about products, markets, strategy, investing, and the internet's shifting terrain. Put all of those labels together and, now and then, they can look like a self-introduction built by someone who knows their way round keywords. But what truly interests me has never been the labels themselves. It is the more fundamental question beneath them: where is technology taking people? And in a world that refreshes itself at speed, how do we avoid living like a browser tab stuck on perpetual reload?

Seventy countries and counting.

I have also travelled and lived across more than seventy countries. Not because I wanted to turn my passport into a loyalty card, and not because I have any particular fondness for dragging a suitcase through an airport. It is simply that once you have gone far enough, you begin to realise that travel has never really been about scenery alone. It feels more like changing coordinate systems again and again.

You see entirely different ways of living, understand that the world can in fact be assembled in all sorts of versions, and, as a result, allow some necessary looseness into the things you once took for granted. Very often, travel does not take you away from yourself. It returns you to yourself, and lets you discover that the life you once thought of as obvious was only one version among many.

Beyond technology.

Beyond technology, products, entrepreneurship, and investing, I also love words, and the books and films that are willing to look life directly in the eye. I read books on method, and I read philosophy and literature; I care about trends, and I care about people; I want to understand how the world works, and I also want to understand why someone might be struck by a poem late at night and suddenly find tears in their eyes. Sanmao, Maugham, Hermann Hesse, Pessoa, Li Juan, Haruki Murakami, Milan Kundera, Camus, and Schopenhauer have all accompanied me at different moments along certain inner roads. More than standard answers, I find myself drawn to questions of existence, absurdity, freedom, and solitude.

I keep trying to live with awareness. I am the sort of person who looks up at the moon without forgetting the sixpence. I love thought, but I also love the feeling of letting the body meet the world directly. In ordinary life, I go hiking, camping, surfing, surfskating, and diving, and I am always drawn to trying different kinds of adventure. To me, being alive is not only about understanding the world. It is also about feeling it first-hand.

This Blog

So this blog, to me, is not merely a place to put articles. It is more like a long table, a logbook, or a letter that has grown very long and still has no intention of ending.

Here, I want to share knowledge, perspective, and thought; to record the process of entrepreneurship and building products; to gather my observations on AI, business, investing, travel, books, and writing; and also to talk about slower things, harder things to measure, but things that matter all the same: the feeling of being alive, the human condition, the weight of choice, and how we might live without betraying ourselves. I see this as part of my personal brand, but I hope it is not a shop window. I hope it is a place with some warmth in it. The world already has plenty of beautifully packaged words. What feels truly scarce is something sincere, interesting, and capable of making a person pause and think.

Everything shared on this blog comes from things I have spent years learning, researching, living through, reflecting on, and sometimes getting wrong across two ventures of my own. At the moment, the articles are drafted with the help of my AI agent, Kotonoha, then edited, shaped, and published by Rio. Even after being humanised, they still carry a slight AI trace here and there. For now, that is a compromise I have chosen, simply because I would rather organise these hard-won notes and experiences into something readable now than leave them sitting in scattered folders for years. If a genuinely good service appears one day that can write in a way that more faithfully matches my own voice, rhythm, and tone, I will revisit the whole archive properly. Until then, I hope you will read these pieces for the substance in them, and forgive the places where the medium is not yet perfect.

I hope that the people who read this will meet someone like this: Someone a little rational, and a little romantic. Someone who can take a product apart and still be moved by a poem. Someone who can talk about markets, technology, strategy, and the future, and who is also willing to talk about people, freedom, and how to preserve one's capacity to feel in the midst of ordinary life. Someone who has seen a little of the world and still has not stopped being curious about it.

This is a place not only for trends, but for how to live. Not only for tools, but for people. Not only for efficiency, but for the inner life. Not only for distant places, but for the things that are difficult to name and yet have been felt by everyone.

Come by sometime?

I want to leave behind thought, connect with kindred spirits, make sense of the world, and leave a path for my future self, a path back to where my original intentions began. Here, I remember the past and think about eternity. And along the way, I hope to meet more people too.

If you are curious about the world, hungry for knowledge, sensitive to life, or merely passing through and would like to talk about entrepreneurship, AI, products, travel, books, poetry, and life, you are very welcome to get in touch.

I have always believed that the meeting of one person and another is one of the most romantic things in the world, and one of the most worthwhile subjects of study.

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