My curiosity, in progress
A portfolio usually shows finished work.
This page shows the unfinished kind, because how someone
works through an open question says more than a polished result does.
This page shows the unfinished kind, because how someone
works through an open question says more than a polished result does.
Project 01
Working at the speed of the tools,
and managing them like a team
Exploring & testing
Many organizations are now asking their people to use AI, and much of that adoption gets measured by whether the tools were bought rather than whether the work changed. I’m interested in the harder question: how systems and workflows change when tools are applied with clear intention. I’ve been running the experiment on myself, treating a solo practice as the testing ground — online presence, marketing, content, correspondence, records … — at the smallest possible scale, where nothing is abstract and every gap shows up as work I have to do myself.
What I keep finding is that assigning work to a tool raises the same questions as assigning it to a person. What is this one good at, where does it reach its limit, what does the output need to be checked for, and who or what picks up the next task? Connecting those handoffs into a single working system is the actual test. The tool is rarely the limiting factor. A human still has to decide what the process should be, what tool to apply, direct the flow of work, and approve the outcome.
Done so far
Built this site end to end — content, structure, and online presence — as the first full workflow tested from start to finish.
Mapped which tool handles which part of the work — ChatGPT for idea organization, Claude for design collaboration.
Now
Turning that build into a documented, repeatable method — from content and structure through to a live, secured deployment.
Testing the handoff points: where one tool should pass work to another, and where a single tool stretched too far starts producing work someone has to undo.
Working on the instruction side — organizing what I want clearly enough before handing it over that the output needs less correction.
Next
Automation and agents — whether scheduling, follow-up and a light contact database can run without adding people, and what breaks when they try.
Packaging it as a working system anyone could set up: online presence, content, marketing, and contact management, with the reasoning behind each choice rather than a list of tools.
Documenting what a workflow like this actually costs to run — the hours, the spend, and the learning curve.
Project 02
Employee rights and the FDI blind spot
Researching
An unexpected employment dispute in Vietnam showed me two groups standing on either side of the same gap. Foreign entities investing in Vietnam — whether organizations, businesses or professionals — depend almost entirely on locally hired management to interpret labor law on their behalf, with limited practical ways to verify what they’re told. Employees have limited access to find out what the law actually says. I want to analyze the gap at a deeper level, understand whether it can be narrowed from both sides at once, and what it would take.
Done so far
Published a first-person account of the case, from the contract terms through to the judgment.
Documented my own experience of the dispute end to end, from the paperwork to the judgment.
Now
Categorizing the questions employees ask most often about unexpected termination, gathered from social media and public groups where people go looking for help.
Comparing what Vietnam Labor Law actually guarantees against what employees report experiencing — starting from the provisions that are publicized most heavily and appear to be followed least.
Looking at why the gap persists. Where enforcement is slow or uncertain, compliance starts to look optional to the people making decisions, and I want to understand how that expectation forms and holds.
Next
Mapping what support already exists — which firms offer free guidance, what managerial legal training is available, and where the gaps sit.
Turning the research into a practical compliance check for foreign investors: what to verify rather than assume, how to read what locally hired management reports upward, and how to hear directly from employees about the health of their own operation.
Building the equivalent for employees — a plain-language guide to what their rights actually are, what to document early, and what options exist before a dispute ever reaches a court.
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