new post up on liminal motion: on the beauty of dawn liminalmotion.substack.com/p/on-the-bea...

i love how there are places beyond birthplace, upbringing or family that settle so deeply inside you that you end up carrying them. for me, the closest is kagoshima

my respect for those who create with their hands and minds is very high; for those who shape raw material, thought, time, or experience into something real, functional, beautiful, or meaningful

personally i don't just think "creator coins" and "content coins" are a bad idea; i reject the whole premise. turning people into financial products is an extraction model, not a path to sovereignty or real creation. the "creator economy" rhetoric presents commodification as liberation, and that's wrong

new post up on liminal motion: walking not to arrive liminalmotion.substack.com/p/walking-no...

a joy of the aware walker is knowing the path is created by walking, not discovered. when you walk with presence rather than destination, each step becomes both movement and arrival

stepping into the unknown and shaping it through motion. new piece on my blog Liminal Motion:

at 5am, the night is old and the day is young, and yet it's neither. what a time to watch oolong leaves unfurl

one of the most fascinating things about hong kong is that it's both a threshold and a gateway between east and west. this tension runs through its entire character; no other place embodies it so strongly. in that sense, it feels inherently close to me. liminal motion, embodied

on a personal level, the cure for slop is depth; and depth shared with those who seek and practice it becomes a joy no shallowness could ever reach; a shared sincerity of pursuit that lives in a realm of presence, intentionality, curiosity, and understanding

there's no way around uncertainty except to step into and through it with agency, which is participating in its unfolding. this, too, is as constant as change; even stagnation is illusion, when more happens to you than you make happen

intentionality is conscious direction, the antidote to noise, drift, even algorithmic momentum time is the ultimate scarce resource, the measure of agency, awareness, and depth

many people won't even listen to the people who have already achieved what they are striving for; which is why you can inherently choose to have an edge simply by learning from mistakes and insights beyond your own. the quiet advantage of humility