ESC to exit
Mission Status · Active

HK → Arctic
Circle → Africa
→ ?

Planned one year.//Closing two years.//In a Defender.//No plan to stop.

Days on road
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Since Jul 1, 2024
Distance
70,000 km+
One vehicle. Overland.
Countries
27
And counting
Plan to stop
None.
Planned 1 yr. Closing 2.
Live |
HK to Arctic Circle to Africa · 27 countries · 70,000km+ overland · no crew, no sponsor, no support truck · documenting everything in real time       HK to Arctic Circle to Africa · 27 countries · 70,000km+ overland · no crew, no sponsor, no support truck · documenting everything in real time       
Cy Law
Cy Law
Hong Kong · On the road
CurrentlyMorocco, Africa
BuildingWeb + app builds
BetaBeyond the Bubble · InnerMap
WritingA book
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Who
I left a 15-year corporate career in my early 40s, packed everything into a Land Rover Defender, and drove out of Hong Kong with no guaranteed income and no plan B.

Hong Kong-born and raised. Left at fifteen for New Zealand, then on to Australia. Worked in Sydney. Moved back at thirty. Spent 13 years at HSBC.

That was July 2024. The plan was one year. I'm closing two. 27 countries, Hong Kong through Central Asia, Europe, Arctic Circle to Sahara in Africa. 70,000km in a Defender. No crew, no sponsor, no support truck.

Documenting what this actually costs, what it does to you. Breaking Cycles is a record of rebuilding life outside the structure. Starting a business from scratch on the road, and sharing the real work behind that change as it happens.

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Latest video
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Substack
Breaking Cycles on Substack
// Latest essay
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Left
600 days of figuring out what the structure was actually doing. Not the career. The structure. The meetings, the calendar, the version of yourself you become when everything is accounted for. What's left when it isn't.
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Built on the road
App
Beyond
the Bubble
Not another place database. The live human layer for people on the road. See the vibe of a place, know who is nearby, ask for help, connect when you want to. Built by an Overlander — 600+ days, 27 countries, one Defender. Because the app I wanted didn't exist.
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Beyond the Bubble
Built on the road
App · Self-knowledge
InnerMap
内図
Reflect. Notice patterns. Find clarity. A daily check-in tool built on five ancient and modern systems — Chinese astrology, Western astrology, Feng Shui, Human Design, and Gene Keys. Not a horoscope feed. A daily practice.
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InnerMap app
Work with me

Most businesses know what they need their digital tools to do. The gap is between that and what's available off the shelf.

Before anything gets built, we have a conversation. What does your business do, how does it run, where is the friction? That shapes what gets built. Sometimes a site. Sometimes a booking system, a client tool, a web app. Whatever the job actually requires.

No template. Built around how you operate. A CMS if you want to make simple updates yourself. Ongoing support if you need it. You deal with one person from start to finish.

There's only me. No account managers, no sales reps, no six-week timeline before you see a first draft. That's either a problem or exactly what you need.
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Built
// Site · Booking · Admin
Mouja Ink
A bespoke setup for a tattoo artist in Morocco. Custom site, client intake system, appointment booking and calendar management, admin panel for managing enquiries and client flow end to end.
Live
// App
Beyond the Bubble
An app for people living on the road. Find out who's nearby, get the real vibe of a place, ask for help, connect when you want to. Built because the tool didn't exist.
Beta
// Tool · In progress
The Leap
A life design tool built backwards from what actually worked. For people who want to build a life outside the 9-to-5 but don't know how to fund it, structure it, or start. Not a framework someone sells without using it.
In progress
// Why me 13 years in fintech. Not building products. Managing teams, finding solutions, making things happen. Same thing now. Different environment, different scale. No institution behind me and no one to hand it off to.
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