ABOUT​​

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"My work sits at the intersection of systems thinking and philosophy. Systems thinking allows me to understand how complex structures behave over time — how feedback loops, incentives, and abstractions shape outcomes that often contradict our stated intentions. Philosophy allows me to step back further still, to question the assumptions those systems rest upon: what we mean by value, progress, efficiency, wealth, and success, and what happens when those ideas are mistaken or incomplete.

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I am particularly interested in moments where abstraction overtakes or replaces reality — where financial measures replace real wealth, where efficiency displaces meaning, and where optimisation obscures or transcends responsibility. These moments are not accidental. They are the predictable result of systems built around narrow definitions of value, reinforced by culture, policy, and institutional habit.

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This perspective has led me to focus on four underlying drivers that shape our planetary trajectory: the monetary system, industrial machine logic, consumption and cultural narrative, and governance frameworks oriented toward perpetual growth. Together, these drivers help explain why well-intentioned solutions so often fail — and why meaningful change requires working at the level of assumptions, not just interventions.

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What guides my work

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I am guided by the conviction that many of our most persistent crises cannot be resolved at the level at which they are currently addressed. When problems are defined too narrowly, solutions tend to reinforce the very dynamics that produced them.

This has led me to work with a small set of guiding principles.

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I pay close attention to unintended consequences, especially where well-meaning interventions produce harm elsewhere in the system. I am wary of solutions that optimise for speed, scale, or efficiency without asking what is being lost or displaced in the process.

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I place particular emphasis on the distinction between real wealth and abstract measures of value — between the conditions that support human and ecological wellbeing, and the proxies we often use to represent them. Where these diverge, systems tend to drift away from their stated purposes.

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I also work from the belief that clarity is more valuable than certainty. In complex systems, confidence can be misleading, while careful inquiry often opens more durable paths forward. My aim is not to prescribe answers, but to help create the conditions in which better questions — and better decisions — can emerge."​​​​