About

Last updated: 2nd April 2026

I was born and raised on the beautiful island of Guernsey (part of which is pictured below), and lived there the majority of my life before moving to London in 2021. My career path thus far has had some thrills and spills, the most exciting of which was playing poker full time in 2017. These days I work as a software and AI consultant and I am actively exploring founding a precision psychiatry project. I have pledged to donate at least 10% of my salary to effective charities for the rest of my career.

I spend a lot of my free time running and have completed many ultramarathons. Previously I have been a competitive sabre fencer, badminton player, chess player, debater, video gamer and powerlifter. I have been most influenced by Scott Alexander, David Foster Wallace, Sean “Day[9]” Plott, Nick Cammarata, Howie Lempel, Joey Ingram, the Stoics, Will Toledo, Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld, Cate Hall, Jacky “EternaLEnVy” Mao, Masahi Kishomoto (specifically for his creation of Uchiha Itachi, Rock Lee and Uzumaki Naruto), Jason Somerville, S. S. Rajamouli, @european.son.420, my ex-housemate, my running coach and my brother.

I’ve struggled over the years with issues to do with weight, body image, self-esteem, anxiety and depression, all of which are now things I try to be an advocate for speaking openly and honestly about. To that end, they’re also the most prevalent themes in my blog, which I write in regularly. I’m interested in integrative psychotherapy, the promise of psychopharmacotherapy, precision psychiatry, and generally any intervention that is ~80% science and ~20% woo.

Here are some things I believe are systematically underrated: antifragility, doing fewer things with greater focus, only playing positive-sum games, intentionally cultivating equanimity/personal responsibility, resisting tribalism, Chesterton’s Fence, Goodhart’s Law.