A record of growing, one seed at a time.

In my ETA class at Babson this fall, two SBA lenders came to talk about acquisition financing. One thing stayed with me: a deal's first numbers usually come from the seller's side. A searcher, often putting their own savings on the line, needs their own view of those numbers, and needs it early.

That's what I'm starting to build: DealLens (working name), a simple tool to help searchers take that first honest look at a deal.

It's early. I'm learning before building too much, and listening before showing anything.

More soon.

I grew up in a small town in South China. People call us Kejia ren, the Hakka: wanderers in a foreign land. Since I was a teenager, I've lived in different places across China, to study and to work.

After the darkest moment of my life, I began to wander again: to France, now Boston. I don't know the next stop yet.

Somewhere along the way I learned that the dandelion's name comes from the French dent de lion. The plant everyone calls a weed is hard to kill, useful from root to flower, and built to travel. Its seeds don't stay close to home. They go where the wind takes them, and they take root.

That felt right for this stretch of my life. So this is where I'll keep my seeds: notes on what I'm learning, what I'm building, and what I'm getting wrong.

There will be failures and setbacks along the way. That's okay. Some seeds will grow. Stay resilient, keep going, and keep hope.