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Notes & essays.

Working notes on community, events, and the slightly strange experience of building software with AI in the room. New posts as and when they happen.

  • 22 April 2026

    Decision surplus

    An afternoon of brilliant productivity left me emptier than a slower one would have. The mechanical work I’d offloaded was doing more than I realised — and the residue is its own thing. Trying to name it.

  • 8 February 2026

    It’s all in a glance

    A wordless 1.5-second glance on a Canterbury high street still works. A carer, a parking ticket, and a small case for keeping certain decisions in human hands. Originally in the Kentish Gazette, 2019.

  • 8 February 2026

    Ending mental health stigma

    On the importance of being open as much about our mental health as we are our physical health. Originally in the Kentish Gazette, 2019.

  • 8 February 2026

    Go well, Nan

    A farewell to my Nan, Tea Withers — the Italian farm girl who took an extraordinary risk in 1943 and changed everything that came after.

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