One of my first and most vivid memories is how I rushed to queue on my birthday to get my free bus-pass! Little things have always pleased me. Perhaps it is this character trait that has helped me to become who I am.

I started my career as a programmer and systems analyst. When I look back to those early years, and when I compare the means we had at our disposition to today’s technology, I come to realized that I have lived through an entire era of technology.

I am extremely lucky, because my career has been a long, big hobby, repurposed to scrape an income. My mind has always been busy inventing things. Probably my biggest invention was when, in 1995, I built a giant cooking wok that replaced 400 traditional ones. Wok cooking encapsulates food flavours. That’s why the wok has come to be recognized as a cooking utensil of choice also in the West. I fabricated eight of them and monetised the invention by cooking super delicious ready meals for almost all UK supermarkets over 16 years.

My skills came in handy when I computerised the controls of a 32,000 ft² kitchen (Mrs Lam’s Delicious Food Co, Aintree) and achieved 86% fuel efficiency in its operations.

In 2012, when I failed to find someone to smoothly shave my head in Hong Kong because of an overwhelming reluctance to use the cutthroat razor, I came up with the iHead concept - "A razor head shave when you want it done." Another problem solved.

A “Razor Cartridge Cleaning System and Method” was the title of a patent application I filed in 2014, for which a patent was duly granted in 2017 in recognition of the “inventive step” performed.  Monetisation of it led to a range of shaving products created to cater for the BaldStyled demographic. So, it was the basis of a new category of products and services for the beauty and hospitality industry.

I am continuing to build my online community, The Demographic Republic, via social media to reach a wider audience.

After all this, something inside me has been driving me towards writing.  The reason is that I have come across something which is so obvious that I was convinced everyone knew it. You can imagine my surprise when I realised that no-one did. It’s like seeing with eyes that are somehow equipped to detect things that remain hidden to everyone else.

I believe people would rather do without blame, and I am not so fond of the blame concept myself. Since I am on the autism spectrum, I get really upset when people level blame irrationally. Whenever this happens, I have this huge sense of frustration which, as everyone knows, feels extremely uncomfortable.

Apparently, it is not uncommon for people to be harassed by their own demons. I learnt about how to face them and about the benefits of writing about them.  This has turned into a book which I have called, “Project Cancel Blame”, (PCB).  In it, I explore my uncovery.

I like thinking outside-the-box. PCB is well outside the box; one might even call it “cathedral thinking.” At the same time, I don’t know where my uncovery is going. Rather, I am certain that I do not have a clue where all this will lead.

My life’s ambition is to raise everyone’s awareness of our Sense of Agency (SoA).  I think humanity could fare better if we allowed our SoA to play a deeper role in decision-taking.

I find it’s shocking how many people do not know, or don’t care or both, about their SoA. Our SoA is our gateway to freedom where we empower ourselves to make our own choices. Rules and regulations set-aside our SoA and makes us detach our responsibilities to make our right choices. I see the SoA as vital in increasing self-moderation and accepting that responsibility is married to any decision, without a divorce option. Decisions should be like possessions; they are for keeps.

My legacy for humanity is a new dogma which states that whenever an individual takes a decision, it is theirs to own, and the responsibility that comes with it is undetachable.

In PCB, taking a decision and taking a wife/husband¹ have the same context or vein.

¹ A biblical, historical and medieval adaptation of “taking”, where the individual can live with or feels stuck in that taking. PCB illumes the individual’s actions to get unstuck to the decision that they took.