Beyond my work in IT customer support and solutions engineering, a handful of subjects have held my attention for years.
I've run tabletop RPG campaigns for years, with Traveller and Call of Cthulhu as long-standing favourites. I play across a wide range of systems, from D&D 5E to the OSR, and gravitate towards sandbox-style play with real consequences.
I'm an Arsenal F.C. season ticket holder in the North Bank, and a later convert to American football, following the Carolina Panthers. Whilst at Cloudflare, I won the customer support fantasy football league against eleven colleagues of mine from our American offices.
My reading spans the late Roman Republic through Carolingian state-building and into early modern economic history. I studied archaeology at college, and while the fieldwork wasn't my strongest suit, the discipline of understanding how institutions and societies evolve has shaped how I think ever since.
I'm comfortable on a stage and have spoken at national political party conferences to audiences of hundreds of people. Between 2017 and 2024 I was involved in local party politics, where public speaking and campaigning were regular parts of the job.
I follow flag design closely and maintain a longstanding interest in heterodox economics, particularly Modern Monetary Theory and its implications for fiscal policy.