Mostly written for myself, then shared. A working archive that started on Substack as "To my future kids" and is being moved here piece by piece — tightened where I could, kept honest where I shouldn't. Edited versions live here; the more book-shaped versions will eventually live at tomyfuture.kids. For interviews and press coverage, see Press & Interviews.
On wanting things, getting them, and discovering the grass-is-greener effect doesn't quit when you cross to the other side.
Scribbles from a year-end solo trip to Chiba. On freedom, structure, love, and the version of me beginning the next chapter.
Bruce Lee's actual lesson, beneath the motivational poster. Five levels of questioning, from imitation to fluidity, applied to fighting and to life.
On the brilliant Chinese students whose potential is gated by an accent and a passport, and what leverage actually means.
On the daily, quiet choices that compound into who you become. Ten keystone habits.
The parable of two brothers, the morning cold, and the quiet power of deciding what your circumstances mean.
On Type Two fun, switching lives with your heroes, and why the qualities that make people great are inseparable from what makes them difficult.
Notes from returning to an academic environment: discipline, mindfulness, friendship, and the quiet peace of alignment.
On 好奇 (curiosity), the density of spontaneous interactions, and the three choices that determine 95% of your life.
A song on the gym headphones, and the realization that the chapters you'll remember as magic felt like survival in the moment.
On teaching kids AI in Hong Kong, the factory logic of modern schooling, and what to build in its place.
Notes from a flight back to Asia during a week the world cracked open again.