• 📍 Manchester, England (city centre)
• 🧩 systems thinker — generally drawn to engineers, positive-sum thinkers, and people who can help me make sense of the world — checklists ✅, workflowy, overthinking, Claude Code, building tools that improve human cognition
• ♻️ social enterprise owner — I run a small business that collects surplus / unwanted printer cartridges to raise funds for the Against Malaria Foundation (one of the world’s most effective charities) or plant trees with Trees For The Future
• 🥹 optimistic ambivert — an introvert who wants to be an extravert, with a psychology degree
• 🥾 hiking & adventure — trying to see all parts of the UK & side quests in other countries — coasts, forests, sunrises, hills, volcanoes — bizarre feats of architecture, watching clouds & aeroplanes, and temperatures 18-25 degrees
• 🎭 improv comedy — learning to say “yes, and” to life — doing some classes both short-form and long-form, performances, going to shows
• 🍸 cocktails with pals — trying to iterate on the 2-hour cocktail party idea (drinks + fun people + nametags + icebreakers) as a fun thing to do with pals & new acquaintances — why don’t you come to one?

Top 10 Fave Media Things 🎉

1. The Traitors 📺 — and social deduction games generally. I will accuse you of being a traitor at the dinner table while promising I’m “100% faithful”!
2. Kate Bush 🎵 — I once made a radio show to get people into her back catalogue and a Spring-themed mixtape. She’s a whole vibe unto herself
3. The Moth (podcast) — real people telling real stories on stage. You will laugh, you might cry
4. **Portal, Journey** 🕹️ — atmospheric puzzle games that bend your mind and stick with you
5. **The Selfish Gene 📖** — Richard Dawkins — the book that made me think about everything as systems, and taught me some game theory
6. Stories of Your Life and Others **📖 — Ted Chiang — the short story collection behind the film Arrival
7. **Koyaanisqatsi / Baraka / Samsara 🎥** — wordless immersive art-films, best watched slightly altered or when you can’t sleep
8. **Cloud Atlas 📖** — David Mitchell — six genres in one novel, loved the structure and the film
9. Meditations for Mortals 📖 — Oliver Burkeman — if you overthink how to spend your finite time productively, this one's for you
10. Weird, trippy, themed mixtapes 🎧 — I sometimes make conceptual audio mixtapes like a techno Blade Runner mix or an hour imagining Enya is a selkie completing a record contract before returning to the sea, as well as DJ mix style things. There’s a soundcloud page where I keep most of the things
11. 90s electronica (technically that’s 11) — I think this is the decade when making stupid sounds to a beat becomes an art-form

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