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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Observations from the Eye of the Storm
I’ve finally produced and released the first pages of Issue 04 of Kamigen. It’s been an awesome journey — particularly because the process makes me focus on individual scenes as they unfold…
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Enhancing SysOps with DevOps
Since discovering it a few months ago, Manjaro Linux has been such a delight with it’s ease of use and performance. So good that, against conventional wisdom, I really want…
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Future Jobs: The Rise of Interdisciplinary Thinking
From our humble beginnings as hunter gatherers, it took us thousands of years to create words with enough meaning to define the discrete schools of thought that make up primary…
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When I grow up, I want to be George Lucas
Growing up, I never thought I’d end up in I.T. It was inevitable in hindsight, considering the sheer amount of time I spent on my PC as a kid. When…
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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.