Interests related to building software:

Check out my LinkedIn for a more conventional CV.

• Developer tools: Don't build the thing, build the thing that builds the thing. At Improbable (a16z/Softbank-backed game tech unicorn), I built a novel game testing toolkit that helped hundreds of game developers save thousands of hours each month with streamlined workflows. I then led the development effectiveness product line as group PM, working with multiple talented teams to deliver state of the art game development tooling to our customers. At GitHub, I built the first MVP of Copilot as an intern in 2016.

• Decentralised Social Media: News and global discourse have shifted online over the last 2 decades. Decentralised social media ensures this new playing field remains credibly neutral. Farcaster is my favorite player in this space, and I'm building Amp to experiment with indexing, embedding, searching and serving up unique social experiences on top of the multi-TB open social graph of Farcaster.

• Learning theory & knowledge management: Nearly all opportunity for individuals is downstream of a quality education, and AI has the power to democratise education for everyone. I'm building Luhmann to experiment with AI-augmented learning and research tooling.

• URL to IRL: my first startup, Little Atlas, connected thousands of people across major crypto-native communities through nearby member discovery and event planning tools (backed by Balaji Srinivasan). Whilst living in London, I started Origin Society - a hacker house community of startup founders who live together.

Other interests:

My interests frequently change as I learn more about the world and try new things. I hope that sharing this list encourages people who visit this page and are interested in the same things as I am to reach out to me for a chat. (Updated 9 Oct 2024)

• Philosophy & Spirituality: Both apes and humans have the capacity for metacognition - the ability to think about thinking, but only humans can communicate these ideas to each other. This makes every human being a philosopher, but also suceptible to absorbing whatever philosophy floats around them. I found that studying philosophy explicitly makes it possible to more honestly evaluate different mental models of the world of internal experience, and to make a more conscious choice of what to believe. I'm studying philosophy chronologically, but also in a broader sense - including history, psychology and neuroscience.

• Language Learning: Learning a language as an adult opens a really interesting window to observe the process of learning itself, and I have been experimenting with many tools and methods to optimise both the effectiveness and experience whilst learning new languages. I have been learning German for around a year, mostly through self-study. Since Oct 2024 I have been practicing German whilst in Vienna, Austria. I also started learning Hungarian since September 2024.