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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Open Source: The peaceful revolution
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has gone from being a futurist movement to a fundamental part of business and technology. Unix-like operating systems such as Linux are installed on…
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A matter of privacy and security
Google provides free services in exchange for access to our data, which it uses for ads that fund the service. Over the years since that model was implemented we’ve seen…
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Tales from the road less travelled
Designing a games production company that can generate revenue via open source has been challenging. I’ve come across companies in my research that generate revenue from Free and Open Source…
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Commercialising a hobby
The time has come for me to start a company. There’s a few reasons for this, but the main one is that if I don’t a lifetime of work will…
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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.