About
A life held together on purpose.
I’m Marcus. I live in Singapore with my wife and our children. Father, husband, builder — still learning how those names share the same week.
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Family & Fatherhood
My wife and I are raising our children. Fatherhood, for me, is less a philosophy than a practice: being home, being present, being the kind of man I hope they remember.
The rest of the juggle is real. Work has deadlines. The children have bedtimes. I write about this at @marcuswxyz — not as an expert. As a father in the middle of it.
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Faith & Community
Faith is part of our week, not a platform and not a performance. We gather with other families in a home church — meals, prayer, kids around, Scripture read out loud. It is ordinary. Some seasons that holds more of me than others. I am not going to pretend otherwise here.
If faith is foreign to you, you are still welcome on this site.
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Fitness
I run and swim because the body has to come along for the ride, and because a long session is one of the few quiet rooms I get. The log lives at @generations.fitness — kilometres, missed days, ten-minute wins. It is a public notebook, not a coaching brand. The private ledger is FORM.
When the training has a thought attached, that thought goes to Substack.
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Work & the Lab
By day I work on skills, AI, and workforce systems in Singapore. The work is slow on purpose: programmes, partners, agencies, the long road from an idea to something people actually use. Before that I spent years around startups, government programmes, and regional partnerships, including work in China and Japan.
The through-line is translation — between public systems and company realities, between a messy brief and a plan you can run.
The full record is on LinkedIn. In the margins I build small tools. Two that are live: SailorPath and FORM — that’s the Lab.