🛠️
(Chiang Mai → Vietnam, November 2025)
Four months at The Base Height Chiang Mai.
All my money — gone.
But hey, I built Luwi Semantic Bridge, trained a context engine that can understand meaning between meanings…
and now I’m using it to figure out which Vietnamese train is under $10.
Survival mode isn’t a metaphor anymore.
It’s literally my operating system.
🧳 Pack Light, Think Heavy
My entire lab fits in one backpack now:
MacBook, hard drive, journal, two shirts, and the last 3 neurons that still believe in R&D.
I used to debug neural graphs. Now I’m debugging myself.
Chiang Mai was a loop — temples, smoothies, late-night model runs, people “manifesting abundance” on bean bags.
It had soul, but it became static.
And entropy hates stagnation.
🚆 Next Stop: Vietnam
Flight booked. Villa rented. Budget annihilated.
I’m trading comfort for data — environmental data, sensory data, emotional data.
Ho Chi Minh to Phan Thiết.
One week of trains, ocean, and rebuilding the thought architecture of “work.”
They call it travel. I call it distributed processing.
🧘♂️ System Notes
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Chiang Mai: 180 days, burned deposit. ROI = experience only.
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Vietnam: 30 days, running on caffeine and context engines.
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Sri Lanka: maybe next, if Wi-Fi and fate align.
I don’t have savings.
But I do have a 3-bedroom villa and a 1TB backup of unfinished dreams.
“Nomad” used to mean freedom.
Now it just means: your project didn’t raise a seed round, but you still believe in it.
⚡️ Footnote
If you ever wonder what happens when an AI researcher forgets to optimize for “real life,”
come find me somewhere between Saigon and the South China Sea —
writing, coding, and pretending I didn’t just roast myself again.
