Understanding what makes ecosystems compound — and what makes them stall.
Pattern Recognition
Travel isn't about novelty. It's about pattern recognition — understanding what makes ecosystems compound, and what makes them stall. Every city teaches the same lessons differently.
All Routes
Every flight and road trip, mapped
Asia
13 countries
Europe
22 countries
North America
6 countries
Canada
50 visits · Last: 2026Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Halifax, St. John's, Windsor, Banff, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Kelowna, Saskatoon, Jasper, Regina, Lethbridge, Victoria, Red Deer, Whistler
Born in Guangzhou, moved to Vancouver at 2, Calgary at 7. Undergrad in Toronto at 18. Home base between Calgary and Toronto.
United States
30 visits · Last: 2026Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Honolulu, Houston, Fort Lauderdale, Washington DC, Boston, Anchorage, Las Vegas, San Diego, Chicago, Seattle, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Austin, Minneapolis, Portland, Newark
LA, SF, NYC, Honolulu, Houston, Fort Lauderdale, DC, Boston, Anchorage.
Panama
1 visit · Last: 2024Panama City
South America
2 countries
Africa
2 countries
Where I Build From
Born in Guangzhou, raised in Vancouver and Calgary, undergrad in Toronto, then San Francisco and Sydney through my mid-twenties. Calgary and Sydney became the places to build from — both are big enough to have real problems, small enough that one person organizing consistently can shift the trajectory of a room.
Every city I've spent real time in left something — San Francisco's density showed what happens when builders cluster, Hong Kong's pace taught urgency, Bangkok's resourcefulness redefined what "enough" means. The point was never to replicate what works elsewhere. It was to see enough ecosystems to know which principles are universal and which are context-dependent, then apply that where it matters most.