What I'm Doing Right Now

Location

Nha Trang, Vietnam. After 13 nights in Hanoi, we landed 29 floors above a city with sea on 1 side, mountains on the other, and Russian supermarkets below.

It feels slightly strange. I usually like slightly strange.

My phone's 70km side quest

I lost my phone in a Grab on the way to bánh xèo. I knew it as the car pulled away, half-ran after it, then stopped because I didn't trust myself enough to fully commit.

We had great food, drove back to the hotel, then found the driver together with reception and Grab support. He had the phone, was still working, and promised to bring it back in a few hours.

I left some money for him and went to see The Odyssey, pretending for 2.5 hours that this arrangement felt completely normal.

After the movie, the anxiety came back so hard that I forgot my backpack at dinner. Almost 10 years without losing anything, then 2 things in 1 day.

When I finally got back, my phone and the money were waiting. The driver had refused it because he'd simply done the right thing.

Humanity: pretty fkn good sometimes.

Creating

• Work started feeling like Lego: the new Analecta piece lets you switch between 2 versions of the same story, 1 thrilled by AI and 1 quietly scared of it.
• I kept systemizing: Charcuteria's video cutting is automated, place search got rebuilt, and a few more recurring jobs no longer need me.
• I gave the brain opinions: it now remembers 300+ decisions with the situation, choice, and reason still attached.

A few snapshots from Hanoi and Nha Trang.

Movement

Muay Thai reset again. Hanoi destroyed me even after I'd become much fitter. In Nha Trang, a trainer watched me move and explained that my technique is suboptimal, to say the least.

Apparently I've been doing Muay Thai with surprisingly little hip.

So I'm a beginner again, just a fitter one. The gentler sessions leave me more exhausted because we're rebuilding the movement from the ground up.

Humbling. Good.

Reading / Learning / Watching

The Log from the Sea of Cortez. Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts keep refusing neat explanations for what they find. The line that stayed was diagnosis terminates.

The moment I name a cause, I start defending it and stop looking. Slightly inconvenient for someone whose favorite mode is diagnosing systems.

General Magic. A documentary about the team that tried to build the smartphone nearly 20 years before the iPhone, failed spectacularly, then scattered into the teams that built the future anyway.

Being early and right can look exactly like being wrong.

Listening to

My boy Shimza again. Live from Tignes, on repeat while building:

Work

Consulting got quieter: strategy, systems, and 1 weekly call.

nodacop v2 is getting tangible: the pitch now shows people the actual assets they'd receive, and a few genuinely good referral leads might be opening up.

I'm selling judgment more clearly now: deciding what should exist before agents build it.

What's Next?

Da Lat in the rain, then Saigon, then 1 month in Taiwan starting in Kaohsiung.

Somewhere in there, I want to build daniel-wulf.com, a business-facing sibling for marketing, strategy, and the work itself.

Analecta keeps the strange personal stuff. Obviously. ❤️