August 20, 2026 · 8 min read
Software Should Have Corners
A ferry lounge has more nuanced privacy settings than most software. What seating areas reveal about social distance, territory, navigation, and designing behavior without commanding it.
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Field Notes
15 notes follow this idea through the HAAM archive.
June 2023 field note · 8 min read
Seoul's ZK Layer
Around ETHSeoul and BUIDL Asia, Seoul became a dense field site for zero-knowledge systems, Ethereum scaling, builder culture, and the social life of infrastructure.
January 2026 archive · 8 min read
Before the Games: Fashion, Mountains, and Power at Montagna Milano
A field note from Milan Men’s Fashion Week 2026, where Vogue, GQ, and K-Way turned alpine culture into a public conversation weeks before the Winter Olympics.
March 2026 field note · 10 min read
GAIC Hangzhou 2026: AI Was Becoming an Industry of Workflows
A field note from an AI industry event in Hangzhou, where engineering design, electronic contracts, machine memory, and comic-drama production showed AI moving beyond the chat window.
November 2016 archive · 10 min read
Slush 2016 and the Architecture of Ambition
A personal archive note from Helsinki on attending Slush 2016 and seeing how a student-built event turned Nordic ambition into shared infrastructure.
April 2025 field note · 13 min read
The Future Had a Queue
At Expo 2025 Osaka, the queues, QR codes, pavilion lotteries, smartphone dependence, and brief human encounters revealed as much about future society as the exhibitions did.
March 2026 field note · 10 min read
Design Shanghai 2026: The Building Was Part of the Exhibition
A professional visitor field note from Design Shanghai's return to the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, where architecture, craft, materials, global brands, and the city itself formed one design system.
November 2018 archive · 8 min read
MongoDB Europe 2018 and the Infrastructure Behind a Global Day of Action
A personal archive note from MongoDB Europe at Old Billingsgate in London, when work on World Cleanup Day made database reliability a practical product concern.
November 2016 archive · 9 min read
Web Summit 2016 and the Week Lisbon Became a Technology Capital
A personal archive note from the first Lisbon edition of Web Summit, reconstructed from my 2016 Instagram post, calendar, and the city-wide network that formed around the conference.
July 4, 2026 · 12 min read
YODEX, the Design City I Could Only Visit
As a master's student at NCKU, I could not exhibit at Taipei's YODEX. Walking through it several times instead taught me to see design education as a temporary city, a public ritual, and a living system.
July 2, 2026 · 11 min read
The Return of the Room: Why Companies Are Investing in Physical Events Again
AI has made digital content abundant. Physical presence is becoming scarce, memorable, and strategically valuable. What TEDxSãoTomé, hackathons, World Cleanup Day, and current event data reveal about the return of the room.
July 8, 2026 · 4 min read
The ZK Layer Was Also a Social Layer in Seoul
A Seoul field note from ETH Seoul: cryptography talks, proof systems, censorship-resistance slides, POAP rituals, prize moments, and the city context around a technical community.
June 26, 2026 · 4 min read
Inside China's Beauty Innovation Stack
Field observations from CiE 2026 in Hangzhou on how Chinese beauty brands connect research, packaging, manufacturing, commerce, and consumer experience.
March 9, 2024 · 5 min read
WordCamp Asia 2024 in Taipei: Accessibility Is Interaction Design at Event Scale
A field note from WordCamp Asia 2024 in Taipei on how conferences, captions, venue design, food, movement, and open-source community become interaction design.
November 3, 2017 · 3 min read
AI Frontiers 2017 Field Note
A first-person field note from AI Frontiers 2017 in Santa Clara, before applied deep learning had fully settled into everyday product interfaces.