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A journey of curiosity.
Yap Pat Yih
Every system starts with a single, curious question.
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Curiosity
Long before job titles or degrees, there was a kid taking things apart to see how they worked. Toys, routines, ideas.
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The journey
I learned to think in systems before I learned to lead them.
Software engineer
Anything complex is small, honest pieces connected the right way.
BlackRevo
General Manager and co-founder. Building Lumen, the system it runs on.
Habitus Mind
Founder. A personal system anyone can sign up for.
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The Dao
These days I have a word for it: 合道.
Not a destination. A life spent walking in union with the Dao.
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Collaborators
Then I met a new kind of collaborator. It automates the repetitive, surfaces the pattern I would have missed, and frees up room for the work that needs a human.
How the company runs on it: Why I run my company on a Brain and a Hand
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The system
Every company is a system of people, waiting to be understood. The next thirty years belong to humans and machines, together.
Yap Pat Yih
One stroke, three forms. One curiosity, pointed at bigger systems.
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Music: J. S. Bach, Prelude in C major, BWV 846, played by Kimiko Ishizaka.