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A running log of what I'm doing.

What I've been up to

2026 ▼
Highlights
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2026.05
  • 🧑‍💻 Spending lots of time in Copilot CLI for work and personal projects…
  • 📚 Hosted 90 students from the UTS Transdisciplinary School as part of a joint elective created with Microsoft - LinkedIn
  • 🎧 The Rise of Trader Joe’s - Acquired Podcast
2026.04
  • 📼 Visited family for Qing Ming and started a family history project, centered around
  • 🤿 Dived the Gordons’ Bay underwater nature trail, and met Gordon the Groper! (PADI)
  • 💻 Stood on another #GiantSurface at our flagship Microsoft AI Tour - LinkedIn
  • 🎧 Reflecting on GLP-1s like Ozempic and Mounjaro – Search Engine Podcast
2026.03
  • 🧁 Lined up an hour for half-price Yochi (Frozen Yoghurt). Yes I did it willingly, and no I am not in danger
  • 🏊 Soaked up some sun at a new local pool, Mahon Pool
  • 🧬 Learnt about my friends’ Ancestry DNA results – PowerPoint style.
  • 🎧 How Formula 1 evolved through the decades’ - Acquired Podcast
2026.02
  • ✈️ First time in Boston & New York! Ticked off some of the touristy things. Can’t wait to go back
  • 🏞️ Saw some incredible scenery and crystal blue waters on the Te Waihou Blue Spring Walk (Tapapa, New Zealand)
  • 🏎️ Inspired by Tom Scott, I rode the Shweeb - an innovative transportation proof of concept funded by Google in 2010. (YouTube)
  • 🎧 How the Boeing 787-10 niche is growing - The Air Show Podcast
2026.01
  • 🛥️ Hosted visiting family on Sydney Harbour on a rental self-drive boat. (Boatique Sydney)
  • ✈️ Co-hosted 60+ partners at Microsoft HQ for the annual Surface Champ Summit (LinkedIn)Favourite meal? Rockfish Banh Mi and Bread Pudding at Local Tide
  • ✅ Ticked off bucket list items: ✅ Boeing Everett Factory ✅ Microsoft Treehouse ✅ Ice Hockey Game
  • 🎧 Interview with Ben Felix, a well known voice in the FIRE community - Aussie Firebug Podcast
2025 ▼
Highlights
  • 🤿 Unlocked a new hobby – Scuba Diving!
  • ✈️ Travelling with friends and family – especially to quieter cities
  • 🪩 So many live gigs and fresh hits!
2025.12
  • 🕺 Saw Parcels at a dream venue, the steps of the Sydney Opera House!
  • 🪩 Also saw Dom Dolla at his largest gig to date – Allianz Stadium. 10/10 to the production team
  • 🎄 So many secret and bad santas, Christmas feasts and catch-ups
  • 🎧 An overview of Lisa Su, CEO of AMD (who’s also related to Jensen Huang!) – The Journal
2025.11
2025.10
  • 📖 Co-Designed and Hosted our biggest ever ANZ Surface Champ Summit (LinkedIn)
  • 🐶 Saw Pitbull at Fridayz. Yes we all dressed up 👨‍🦲
  • 🎧 Unpacking a decade of Pixel hardware – Made by Google Podcast
2025.09
  • 🚘 Family roadtrip through the Japanese Alps (Nagoya to Kanazawa)
  • 🏂 Annual snowboard trip to Queenstown – Cardrona
  • 🎧 The science behind altruism – Hidden Brain
2025.08
  • 🥂 Celebrated the first wedding in a close friend group in Bali
  • ⛰️ Climbed Mount Batur in Bali
  • 🎧 The origins of Google’s Search Engine - Acquired Podcast
2025.07
2025.06
  • 🎂 Celebrated so many birthdays, anniversaries, visitors and an engagement!
  • ⚡ Test drove EVs at the Melbourne EV Auto Show. My favourite? The Merc. G580EQ. 0-100 in 4s. Feels illegal in a 3-tonne tank.
  • 🎧 How to Thrive in a Distracted World – Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
2025.05
  • 🍂 Roadtrip to Bowral for some beautiful parks filled with autumn colours.
  • 📢 Spoke on a panel about being AI-Ready with Windows 11 & Copilot+ PCs (LinkedIn)
  • 🎧 Creating diverse and inclusive spaces for Asian communities’ within an org. – Bain’s Beyond The Bio
2025.04
2025.03
  • 🗻 Visited Everest Base Camp, (Mount Qomolangma). Sunrise Timelapse
  • 🫶 Used a team volunteering day at ReLove, helping furnish homes of people moving into crisis accommodation, to help them build a home and a fresh start.
  • 🎧 How grudges hurt us more vs. others. “No Hard Feelings” - Hidden Brain Podcast
2025.02
  • 💻 Spoke at our Asia Town Hall about Copilot+ PCs and their role in driving AI adoption in our partner ecosystem
  • 🤿 Picked up my PADI Open Water Scuba certification!
  • 🎧 How to engage people in meaningful ways – “We need to talk” - Hidden Brain
2025.01
  • 🪸 Visited the Great Barrier Reef with family
  • 📦 Celebrated 25 years of Geocaching at the Sydney GeoQuest / Block Party with 500 other Geocachers!
  • 🎧 The time a paid pen-tester broke into the wrong bank – Darknet Diaries Podcast
2024 ▼
Highlights
  • 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 So many great family moments – hosting visitors and rekindling old connections in our hometown
  • 🤝 Embraced new colleagues across Asia, while building new work relationships across the dutch (Kiwi for “ditch”)
  • 🛬 Spotted planes in Tokyo, Auckland, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Sydney
2024.12
  • 💻 Stood on the #GiantSurface at our 2024 Microsoft AI Tour (LinkedIn)
  • 🍷 Visited one of my favourite wineries (again) – De Bortoli Wines
  • 🍤 Hosted overseas family at Taste of Shunde – a must visit for seafood lovers
  • 🎧 How did the first democracy die? – Search Engine Podcast
2024.11
  • 🕺 Finally saw Coldplay LIVE in Sydney! Favourite song? Life In Technicolor ii
  • 🚲 Cycled around Bangkok Airport – a must do if you love planespotting!
  • 💪 Co-designed then hosted our inaugural ANZ Surface Champ Summit. (LinkedIn)
  • 🎧 Binged the Acquired Podcast (Qualcomm, Microsoft, Costco)– known as “The definitive history & strategy of the world’s greatest companies”
2024.10
  • ⛰️ Annual Coast Track Walk – Royal National Park (29km)
  • 🕺 Second Lime Cordiale concert for 2024 – this time with dad!
  • 🎧 How SpaceX dominated the space industry – Bloomberg’s Odd Lots
2024.09
  • ✈️ Farm-stay in Wingham – where Australia’s pioneering aviator, Nancy Bird Walton first flew in a plane. (Airbnb)
  • 🦘 Discovered so many cute wombats at the Blackbutt Reserve in Newcastle. It’s free!
  • 🍷 Visited one of my favourite wineries – De Bortoli Wines
2024.08
  • 🕺 Snagged $9 tickets to a Lime Cordiale show. Special guest - Ruel
  • 🏂 Annual snowboard trip to Queenstown – Remarks & Coronet Peak
  • 🎧 What business can learn from “geeks”, and the unconventional solutions they can find to business problems – McKinsey Podcast
2024.07
2024.06
2024.05
  • 📣 Presented on the co-sell opportunity for devices and Copilot at the Microsoft AI Partner Innovate event in Auckland
  • 🪓 Tried axe-throwing… unsuccessfully…
  • 🎧 Gastropod: Behind the supply chain of “Shrimp” (Prawns) in America
2024.04
  • 🔥 Reconnected with family for Qing Ming, and offered lots of joss paper for our ancestors in the afterlife
  • 🏎️ Drank lots of Luckin coffee and milk tea on the way to the Shanghai F1
  • 🎧 Understanding how the EU is seeking to promote competition in the tech sector through the Digital Markets Act - Decoder with Nilay Patel
2024.03
  • 🧠 Spoke on a panel at the CMHAA Annual Gathering on the role of Early-in-Career employees in building diverse and collaborative teams
  • 🕺 2x Fred again.. Concerts – such a fantastic live act. Highly recommend
  • 🎧 Life Kit – Responsible ways to eat seafood
2024.02
  • 💼 First trip covering my new partners – in New Zealand!
  • 🐄 Discovered the best chocolate milk out there from Lewis Road Creamery
  • 🎧 Understanding how passkeys work, why you should use a third-party password manager, and password hygiene - Vergecast
2024.01
  • 🛳️ First Cruise on the Ovation of the Seas – bumped into a friend from primary school!
  • 🐉 Celebrated the Year of the Dragon with lots of family feasts
  • 🎧 A look into Qualcomm’s 3,854 patents filed in 2023
2023 ▼
Highlights
  • 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family celebrations – emcee’d a family wedding, reconnecting with maternal grandma’s family.
  • ✈️ Travelling with close friends and family – seeing the Northern Lights in Scandinavia & Saunas in -20°C weather.
  • 😋 So much good food in Guangzhou, Osaka, Singapore and Tromsø
2023.12
2023.11
2023.10
  • ✈️ Travelled to Singapore for a wedding
  • 🧘 Published a video demystifying Employee Assistance Programs
  • 📖 Earned my first Expert Level Cert — Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator
  • 🎧 LIVE VOL. 2 by Parcels — some of their earliest songs were co-produced by Daft Punk
2023.09
2023.08
  • 📖 Never Split the Difference — Chris Voss (ex-international hostage negotiator)
  • 🎧 Bain's Beyond the Bio — creating inclusive spaces for Asian communities
  • 🧳 Family trip to China with my 94yo 婆婆 (maternal grandma)
  • 🥳 Birthday celebrated with family dinners and a Sydney staycation
  • ⭐ Waterfalls, breweries, and chasing the Southern Lights in Hobart aurora alerts
2023.07
  • 📖 The toothbrush test, Radical Candor, and William Gibson on the future
  • 🎧 Hidden Brain podcast
  • 📺 Formula One 🏎️ and re-runs of Madagascar & The Incredibles
  • ❤️ Creating mental health videos for early-in-career folks via CMHAA
2023.06
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Inspired by Derek Sivers. Last updated 27 May 2026.