Essays on people, place, and the deeper logic of change.
LifeCanvas is a space for reflective thinking about how people live, work, and adapt in cities, supply chains, and systems that rarely make the headlines but quietly shape everyday life. From balconies in Ho Chi Minh City to residential streets in Shanghai and the evolving rhythm of Polish towns, these notes focus on the human side of global structures.
Series 1
The Human Gradient
How six Asian cities learn, adapt, and absorb technology in ways official models rarely capture.
From Bangkok’s improvisation to Hanoi’s culture of continuous study, from Shanghai’s competence
to Tokyo’s restraint, this series circles around a simple tension:
Does AI adoption follow necessity and habit, or infrastructure and wealth?
Series 2
A Portfolio of Strengths: Vietnam, China, Poland
Three supply-chain systems, three forms of capability. Vietnam’s flexibility, China’s depth, and Poland’s resilience form a portfolio built on complementarity rather than competition.
Series 3
AI & The Third Mind
Reflections on AI as a “third mind” — not a replacement for human thinking but an additional perspective that sharpens it:
• how intelligent tools change what we notice and how we decide
• how human experience and system structure work alongside AI
• why clarity and responsibility still belong to people
LifeCanvas sits on the human side of my work at EdgeCanvas, where systems, decisions, and intelligent tools live. Here, the focus is simpler: people, places, and the ways we navigate change.