However you got here — through the method, the podcast, or something else entirely — welcome.
The YY Method started as a discipline for encoding the reasoning inside codebases and teams — the why behind decisions, not just the decisions themselves. It turned out to work the same way everywhere judgment under constraint is required: personal finance, family architecture, creative work.
This site is where that work accumulates.
The System
About
Ben Chan is an engineer and the creator of the YY Method — a personal epistemological framework for making decisions durable under constraint.
The method applies in technical environments: codebases, teams, knowledge systems where the reasoning behind decisions decays faster than the decisions themselves. It applies equally outside them — a housing decision, a retirement transition, a child's school arc. The structure is the same. Judgment under constraint, captured before it disappears.
The work spans systems, music, and language. The thread is the method.