I build things across domains that rarely talk to each other.
Former Royal Navy nuclear submarine engineer. Five years coaching humans through physical transformation. Building sovereign identity infrastructure and open-source tooling. Writing on philosophy, political violence and social cohesion. From the UK, living in Sydney.
Latest essays
- Political Violence and the Broken Circle - Why We're Attacking Ourselves 14 Sept 2025
- When Your Palace Becomes Your Prison 7 Sept 2025
- Comfort in the Chaos - Uncertainty as Life 2 Sept 2025
- Lost for Words? 28 Aug 2025
- Dance With the Waves - Fighting, Fleeing, Fawning, Freezing... Or Flowing? 26 Aug 2025
I keep going deep in domains that have no business being in the same CV. Nuclear engineering, identity infrastructure, behaviour change, philosophy. The space between those depths is where the interesting thinking happens. Full timeline here.
"You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm
hold in your mind. Everywhere means nowhere." Seneca.
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