Thank you for stopping by my little corner of the internet.
I’m Wen. I build business systems for a living (doing processes, workflows, the unglamorous scaffolding) that keep an organisation running after I’ve stopped watching it.
I’ve been writing here since 2015.
It started as somewhere to put the things I couldn’t quite say out loud, and in many ways, it still is.
I’m an introvert and a quiet observer. Writing has always been my way of making sense of what sits beneath the surface. The thoughts we don’t always voice, the choices we make, and the reasons we sometimes don’t fully understand ourselves.
What I’m curious about hasn’t changed much:
What drives us? Why do we choose the lives we choose? And how much of that life is actually ours?
What has changed is that I’ve stopped expecting the answers to arrive on schedule.
So this isn’t a site about having life figured out.
I’m not further along than you are.
It’s simply a record of the questions I’m still living with: work, family, money, the body, ambition, freedom, ageing, and whether the path I followed was ever truly mine to begin with.
Some days I write because I’ve learned something.
Other days I write because something happened and I don’t yet know what it means.
Outside of work and writing, I’m usually moving, whether in the gym, on a badminton court, somewhere on a running route, or occasionally halfway up a mountain wondering why I thought this was a good idea.
I read a lot of non-fiction, travel whenever I can, and somehow keep returning to the same two questions I’ve been asking since I started this blog:
Who am I? Why am I here?
I still don’t have the answers.
Maybe that is the point.
If you’ve done what you were supposed to do, ticked some of the boxes, and still occasionally wonder whether you’re heading in the right direction, you’ll probably recognise something here.
Every story has more than one side; every question has more than one answer.
If you want to know what I’m actually focused on at the moment, that’s on the Now page.
If you want the route rather than the destination, the Timeline lays out how one thing led to another.
And if you’d rather start reading, everything here is sorted into eight strands, with four suggested places to begin, on the Where to Start page.