About Me

There is a version of me that these pages cannot show.

I am, first, someone who listens. Not politely-while-waiting-for-my-turn listens — I mean I can sit with someone for hours while they work something out, without needing to fix it, redirect it, or weigh in. People tend to feel easy around me. I make light of things. Conversations get my full presence; judgement stays outside. If you need to rant, I am genuinely one of the better options.

Underneath the disciplines — the five-in-the-morning practice, the training, the work — there is someone with very specific ideas about how things should be done, and a tendency to lose all sense of time when something has my full attention. I operate at either a hundred percent or zero. There is no in-between, no coasting, no half-measures. I am ambitious — and that ambition is directed entirely at the things I have chosen to care about.

I have been told I am very energetic. This is accurate. It tends to surprise people who meet me quietly before they see me in motion. I am also an introvert — the energy is real, and solitude is where I return to myself after spending it.

Everything I do, I do in pursuit of two things: joy and excellence. Not obligation, not expectation — just those two. Which explains both what is on this site and what isn't.

I care deeply about my autonomy — the freedom to practise what I love, work on what I find meaningful, spend my time on my own terms. Everything on this site is a product of that freedom.

The present is more than enough to be in. What-if questions genuinely bother me — the actual thing is always more interesting than a version of it that doesn't exist yet. I would rather be fully here than spend time somewhere that hasn't arrived.

If you want to talk to me, I ask one thing: depth. I would rather spend three hours on two subjects than two hours on ten. I want the conversation to go somewhere it couldn't have gone without both of us in it — to arrive at that particular quiet when there is genuinely nothing left to say about a thing. That is what a good conversation means to me.

Whatever has my attention has all of it. That is, I think, the version these pages cannot show.