Updated August 2026 - London
Creating#
Making a video series called Data in the Real World - short, honest explanations of how data works in organisations, not how textbooks say it does. Thirty episodes in.
Also working to make my existing writing more findable - structured data, schema.org markup, making the work attributable in both search and AI systems.
Trying to understand how I think by maintaining a structured knowledge vault. The vault is a map of mental models. Keeping it accurate is the same as keeping my thinking accurate.
Made some gifts for close friends recently. Also working on a garden - the cucumbers are doing better than expected, the tomatoes worse.
Curiosity#
Deep in the question of whether an AI system can meaningfully improve its own workflow over time. Tracking every session, scoring them, running monthly rollups. The answer so far: maybe, slowly, with a lot of scaffolding.
Interested in using ontologies as gates - checking a system’s output against a formal model of what’s valid before trusting it, rather than after.
Doing a data leadership course.
Experimenting with digital envelope budgeting - pre-committing money to categories before spending rather than tracking after. Still getting the hang of it.
Connection#
Reading and thinking about what good parenting actually looks like at this age - not the anxious kind, the deliberate kind.
Really working on making time for friends. It’s expensive - in time, in effort - but great.
Staying genuinely connected to people doing interesting work - former colleagues, people I meet at events. Less transactional, more real.
This is a /now page. Everyone should have one.