Summary
Catan Ngan is a founder and senior creative based in Hong Kong with eight years of experience turning dark data into actionable training datasets and cultural insight. He leads Super Normal Life Lab, where he blends counterfactual “artificial stupidity” thinking with long‑horizon trends to produce analytics, storytelling, and therapeutic reading practices he calls Future Detox and Bibliotherapeutic listening. His background spans digital content, photography, web marketing and social media, giving him a rare mix of data pragmatism and craft in multimedia production. As a bilingual writer, editor and speaker he publishes and edits cross‑language content while tracking societal impact and Return on City. Catan is quietly hands‑on—coding, sourcing and curating datasets himself—and frames reading as a practical tool for mental resilience, not just leisure. His work sits at the intersection of creative direction, data design and public mental health.
8 years of coding experience