Conversations that don't sit in one discipline.

i.  The question underneath the question

What people actually bring here is rarely the question they came in with. The hire is rarely about the hire. The lawsuit is rarely about the lawsuit. The deal is rarely about the deal.

• The hire that everyone says is great but your gut keeps stalling on.
• The deal you keep redrafting because the real question is whether to do the deal at all.
• The decision you have been narrating in your head for six months.
• The thing your co-founder said that you have not decided whether to forgive.
• The lawsuit you do not want filed but the alternative is worse.

That is what these conversations tend to be for.

ii.  The five practices

1. Law.

   Admitted to the High Court of Malaya (RLB Advocates & Solicitors). Active in dispute resolution and intellectual property. Most of the work is help seeing what a conflict is actually about before paperwork starts.

2. Software.

   Founder, Axon Avenue PLT. Three live products: Saraf (autism education), MatSelamat (court document generator), Proxi (operator interface). Code is part of the work.

3. Personality data.

   HEXACO and archetype work. Pattern recognition you cannot turn off once it is there. It sits underneath much of what gets discussed here.

4. Writing.

   Two books in motion (UNDISTORTED and Say It For Me). Writing is how I work out what I think before saying it.

5. Music.

   Operator of Sync Primitive (record label). Production credits under two artist names. Tempo, taste, and what to cut transfer to the other work more than people expect.

Each of these is a full practice. The cross-view is what they add up to.

Epigraph

If the conversation in your head has already happened twice, it should probably happen out loud.

Not the right person for generic AI tooling reviews or pitch coaching. For anything else worth an hour, the schedule is below.

iii.  Schedule of formats

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