The Traveller
I picked up a camera in 2001 and never quite put it down. Three chapters of travel — from backpacking across Southeast Asia in the early 2000s to trekking to Machu Picchu in 2026 — have shaped how I see the world more than any book or business course. Travel teaches what systems thinking cannot: that most of what we worry about is small, and most of what matters is invisible until you slow down enough to notice it.
The Builder
I founded V-Work to build technology that works with how people actually operate — not against it. Our flagship product, WeManage, is a procurement platform built for the way procurement teams actually think. More recently I have been building AI systems — coaching tools, specification engines, and agentic workflows — that sit at the intersection of human judgment and machine capability.
I work on these projects with Leo, my AI collaborator, in a system we call the AEC (AI Engineering Cell). The work is less about replacing people and more about amplifying the clarity of the human in the loop.
The Second Mountain
The first mountain is the one most people spend their thirties and forties climbing — career, achievement, recognition. The second mountain is different. It is about contribution, depth, and learning how to live with intention rather than momentum.
This site is my second mountain in motion. The OLO framework is the map I use to navigate it. The Bear Path is the weekly journal of the climb. The travels are the evidence that the climb is real.