From children’s games in Silicon Valley to workplace software in Singapore, Bjorn Lee has kept returning to a deceptively difficult question: who else must a product persuade?

The Qritive co-founder learned to make slow work faster. His games, essays, and experiments ask a different question: what happens when you leave room to wander?

Before Doctor Anywhere, there were schoolyard sticker sales, an engineering degree and twelve years in investment. Now Lim Wai Mun is working on a more personal problem: building a company that can thrive without depending on its founder.

Before Workforce Optimizer became his company’s name, Alan Sevugan helped build scheduling software used by NASA. His continuing subject is closer to home: how to put people, preferences and the work ahead into a roster that makes sense.
A request at an NUS robotics lab drew Bin Wang into the daily work of preschools. At Taidii, the engineer and co-founder has spent the years since connecting school routines, software and the people who use them.