Hi, I’m Paul
I’m a writer, creative technologist and systems thinker based in Perth, Western Australia.
I write stories and essays about things that matter to me like reclaiming agency, liberty, technology and the systems people create in order to live inside them. I’m also the co-founder and technical director of Open Studios.
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My 2020 Retrospective: A lesson in happiness
2020 was a really good year, for me personally. My consulting business had a slow but promising start to the year, which included my first paid trip as a freelancer…
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Facebook Ad Targetting is Broken
For a few years now, I’ve observed a really curious thing happen when I take on a new website. My Facebook ads start to echo the project I’m working on…
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A History of My PC GPU’s
I have owned a few graphics cards over the past 26 years so I thought it’d be fun to look back at what they looked like, what games I played…
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Looking Phugly, feeling Stylus
The Kettlefish project is something that arose from restructuring the Langenium project from being a Node.js server to a static HTML site built for Github Pages. At that time in…
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About Me
I’m Paul, a writer and creative technologist based in Perth, Western Australia. I have spent more than two decades working with software, the web, systems and graphical applications.
I’m also the co-founder and technical director of Open Studios, an independent studio creating fictional worlds, open-source software and experimental values led R&D.
The subjects on this site vary, but they come from the same place: an interest in how people live inside systems, what those systems do to them and how people find ways through.