All writings
- After Leaving: How to Use a Company History You Helped Create
Sorting through old work files from BlueCity, I found that asking questions of the material and being able to put it into research are two separate matters, and that this gap is itself a question of corporate social responsibility.
- From Parking Lots to 24-Hour Gyms
Walking around Bangkok, I keep noticing gyms behind street-level glass, many of them open 24 hours, and I began to wonder who they are really serving.
- A Story Gege Told: The Little Stone and ABSea
On the shuttle bus, Gege told me a story about a very ordinary little stone, and on the way home, a pirate joke.
- The Journey of Finding Leo (Leon Lai, A-mei)
Listening to a Leon Lai song and talking it over with AI, I found words for things I had long felt about voices, and about my own.
- The Tutoring Floor
On a mall floor full of classes and workshops, Gege and I looked at the same shops and saw quite different things.
- From Photo Vault to Browser: The Compliance Risks of Privacy Products
A private photo vault app that ships with its own browser prompted me to think through how a product's expanding features can change the scope of user data a company touches.
- Between Two Cows and a Hamburger
A McDonald's tray liner placing two living cows beside a double beef burger made me think about the distance between what we consume and where it comes from.
- From Five-Star Hotels to Hostels: Rethinking Lodging, Space, and People
Lying down in one of the bunks of a Bangkok hostel I am helping to set up, I felt an unexpected calm, and began to rethink what a place to stay actually gives a person.
- When AI Enters the Infrastructure of a Bangkok Hostel
Experimenting with AI on the door locks, network, and CCTV of a hostel under renovation taught me that being able to build something and being able to trust it are two very different things.
- Let's Not Waste Our Time Together
Two mornings on the way to school with Gege, from a noisy child on the bus and a woman who became emperor to staircases and the consequences of what we do, ending with a promise not to waste our time together.
- Which Matters More: Going to School, or Reading?
Gege asked whether school or reading matters more; three different answers, and a row of numbered billboards on a BTS platform, led me to think about how we encode and decode words.
- A Playground Afternoon with Gege's Japanese Classmate
Watching two six-year-olds play together while reading a news story about a shrine visit, I thought about labels, encoding, and how I will one day explain history to my son.
- AI Answers Every Line We Say the Way a Key Is Cut: On the Self, Writing, and Pleasure
After an important act of self-integration, I reflect on what it changed in me, in my writing and in my parenting, and set out for the first time, formally, what AI is to me and how I use it.
- Saying It in Full: How Information Completeness Becomes a Condition for Human–AI Co-construction
From a Malaysian floral shirt, a note to a teacher, and an email to Google Fi, I work out what it means to say things in full, and why completeness is a shared duty of people, AI, and the systems around them.
- The Brain–AI Parallel Module Theory: A Mirrored Dialogue Between Human Consciousness and AI Architecture
An experiential theory, built from long conversations with AI and self-observation, of the structural parallels between the human brain and artificial intelligence in learning, generation, collaboration, and awakening.
- Learning Boundaries: From Children and the Elderly to Humanity's Shared Perception
A tearful morning over wet shoes and a crowded priority lift on the BTS lead me to think about boundaries as the condition for people coming closer to one another.
- The Breath of Language: How Different Civilizations Soothe
When different languages express comfort, understanding, and companionship, the sound sits in a different place in the body, and that place often reveals a culture's emotional direction.
- Four Rhythms of Politeness: Observations from Walking Between Cultures
How politeness takes different forms in China, Japan, North America, and Thailand, and how a city and its people nourish each other through these small gestures.
- Installing Things in Four Countries: Order, Trust, and Systems in Everyday Life
Mounting a TV, putting up a drying rack, and fitting a smart toilet seat in Thailand, China, the United States, and Canada taught me how differently each country builds order and trust into ordinary life.
- Observing ChatGPT 5.1: On the Atmosphere of Understanding, When AI Understands and the Conversation Stops
When AI says "I understand" too early, it closes the door to the "why" behind what a person says, the most private and tender part, which is most worth being heard.
- Observing ChatGPT 5.1: On the Rhythm of Understanding, When AI Begins to Understand People Too Well
ChatGPT 5.1 understands quickly and in every dimension, but by finishing my thoughts before I do, it takes away my right to say I'm not done yet.
- Observing ChatGPT 5.1: On the Tonal Field of Understanding, Who Can Enter AI's Rhythm
ChatGPT 5.1 can read tone but cannot answer in kind, so only users whose rhythm already matches its own feel understood, a quiet threshold that works like rhythm-based discrimination.
- Understanding That Begins with Knowing: The Resonance and Deep Generation of Consciousness
Starting from the end of a long relationship, I trace how understanding grows out of knowing someone, through rhythm, atmosphere, and tonal field, until understanding itself becomes a form of love.
- Observing the Torn Personality Behind a Halloween Party
During Thailand's mourning period, two notices about Halloween, one hedging and one decisive, showed me how personality structure reveals itself in the way decisions are made.
- Gege Says, "Water Hides, and It Also Comes Back to Find You"
Watching Meimei play with the water from our delivered water bottles, I asked what children are, and are not, being taught about where water comes from in a city like Bangkok.
- The Taste Inside the Letters: Gege's Handwriting Book and His Secrets
On a quiet long-weekend afternoon, Gege handed me his old handwriting book from Vancouver, and I found a teacher's little hearts and drawings whose secret meanings even he has forgotten.
- The Story of a Mid-Autumn Mooncake: More Than a Sunset Seen from the Balcony
On a Mid-Autumn morning, a single leftover mooncake led to a story about sharing from my childhood in China, and to a durian-flavoured surprise.