I study how people think.Then I build things for them.

Behavioural scientist, product builder and researcher interested in what people do, why they do it, and how technology can work better around them.

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I make digital products, investigate problems that interest me, and write about technology, behaviour and the strange process of turning ideas into things people can actually use.

What I’m building

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Interests

Human behaviour

Why people choose, forget, misunderstand, procrastinate, trust and change their minds.

Products

How useful things become understandable things — and why technically correct products can still fail humans.

AI and building

What changes when people who couldn’t previously write production software suddenly can.

Experiments

Small products, weird hypotheses, unfinished ideas and things worth testing.

The route here was not especially direct.

Read the slightly non-linear version